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November 3, 2010 | Story
New Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders graduate helps organize groundbreaking summit on link between health and economic development.
September 23, 2010 | Commentary
Substance abuse. Child abuse. Intimate partner violence. These are but some of the signs of emotional distress that public health officials suspect are on the rise in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as families nurse fears about the ...
July 29, 2009 | Story
Mississippi has the highest rate of adult obesity in the country at 32.5 percent.
August 18, 2011 | Program Result
A research team at the University of Southern Mississippi with collaborators at other universities, increased and disseminated knowledge and information about state and local public health financing and its impact on population health.
October 22, 2009 | Story
Alabama program brings preventive vision care to economically-disadvantaged toddlers.
October 17, 2008 | Program Result
The Foundation for the Mid South engaged stakeholders in a planning process to launch the Mid South Health Initiative, designed to identify strategies that would improve the health of people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
From 1993 to 2001, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, developed and implemented Community Health in Focus, a program designed to use the convening role of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to stimulate action on health care issues identified by local communities.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
The University of Kentucky Research Foundation held the Interdisciplinary Conference on State Law and Public Health, in Lexington, Ky., October 19-21, 2001.