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May 30, 2013 | Program Result Report
From 2007-2012, Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Health Care Leaders - a $3.6 million national program - provided training to 219 early-to-mid-career professionals working with vulnerable populations in eight communities.
June 6, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Public health researchers Kimberley Roussin Isett and Miriam Laugesen decided to look at New York City as a model for improving public health that other cities could replicate.
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
Reducing and eventually eliminating childhood lead exposure through local policy innovations, is the main objective of this study.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, and Deborah Wallace, PhD, conducted research and published a book addressing the social, economic and political decay that underlies the rise of AIDS, tuberculosis, drug abuse and violent crime.
March 14, 2013 | Program Result Report
Researchers studied public health policies in New York City and elsewhere, including bans on transfats, limits on exhaust emissions, and taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, to determine how best to move such policies through the political process.
December 19, 2012 | Journal Article
This qualitative study examined use of evidence-based decision-making in New York State LHDs and factors facilitating and impeding its adoption.
April 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
Harlem Children's Zone, a social service organization in New York City's Central Harlem, operated a monthly farmers market that provided low-income families with easy access to fresh produce at reduced or no cost.
February 26, 2007 | Program Result Report
From June 1998 through June 2004, Free to Grow attempted to replicate the program's substance abuse strategies in Head Start programs in three high-risk neighborhoods in New York City.
July 26, 2011 | Story
A Community Health Leader shows young people how to make their dreams of becoming medical professionals come true. Here, Lynne Holden, MD, talks about the scope of her program and program graduates tell their stories (video).
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study represented 11 local health departments (LHDs) as groups of networks employees, tasks, and knowledge were points, or nodes within each network LHDs that appear structurally distinct likely share patterns of interactions among their organizational elements.