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October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, studied the problem of injury in America. A special focus of the project was to examine the accomplishments of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The National Association of County and City Health Officials provided video streaming via the World Wide Web of seven sessions of its 2002 annual conference, "Working in a Changing World: Strengthening Public Health Preparedness."
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Experts from the social, behavioral, physiological and medical sciences developed a plan to study how the extent to which people are socially connected (that is, have relationships with others) affects their physical health.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
A physician-scientist in the pediatric residency training program at Children's National Medical Center in Washington received a one-year fellowship to work in Washington, contributing to the development of health-related research and policy statements.
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.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Association of Academic Health Centers, Washington, published and disseminated a book entitled Emergency Preparedness: Bioterrorism and Beyond.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine worked to educate and promote communications among medical and public health professionals and policy-makers about bioterrorism, emerging infections and emergency preparedness.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Boston, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jointly sponsored a national conference, "The Public's Health and the Law in the 21st Century," held June 17-19, 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
St. Peter's Medical Center and the American Society of Addiction Medicine held two conferences to explore the implications of products that claimed to deliver nicotine to smokers more safely than cigarettes.
January 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning established the David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health. The award honors the achievements of the founding and longtime director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.