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May 13, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Claude-Alix Jacob, chief public health officer at the Cambridge health department, spoke with NPH about how collaborating around and winning the RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize has impacted the community.
December 2, 2008 | Story
Somerville, Mass. community is among 50 sites making changes in national initiative to prevent obesity.
January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
A collection of maps visually present data on the health characteristics and experiences of children in Boston.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examined jurisdictional, organizational, and structural characteristics associated with capacity to deliver 10 essential public health services (EPHS) in Massachusetts, a state where a majority of local public health departments serve sma ...
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Case studies focused on regionalization of public health preparedness and response in the Washington metropolitan area, highlighted the lack of an official of regional public health structure and the challenge in integrating the federal government into the regionalization effort.
September 21, 2009 | Story
Cortes to study strategies to improve healthy eating.
May 12, 2009 | Program Result Report
In this 2006 to 2007 project, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, and a team of researchers and public health officials at RAND Corporation and elsewhere conducted case studies of five regional public health structures and then compared them.
January 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The New England Public Health and Managed Care Collaborative brought together public health departments, major managed care organizations, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Brandeis University to improve the health of New Englanders.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
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.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
A team of scientists, business leaders, doctors, security professionals and others formed the New England Collaborative for Public Health Preparedness to bring a regional focus to local planning against bioterrorism and other biological threats.