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January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: By bringing together state and local officials, their federal counterparts and diverse stakeholders of the food safety system, this project developed an agenda for strengthening state and local roles in the food safety system.
May 13, 2011 | Program Result
Project staff worked with a design team to create and test a set of universal graphic symbols to help people with limited proficiency in English find their way around health care facilities.
January 1, 2003 | Report
The Committee on Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century, under the Institute of Medicine (IOM), examines the education of public health professionals and directs recommendations for strengthening public health education, research, and practice.
January 26, 2010 | Program Result
From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.
May 1, 2005 | Program Result
From 2003 to June 2004, staff at the Public Health Foundation, Washington, created a nationwide Web-based clearinghouse where public health professionals can find continuing education opportunities.
September 1, 2005 | Program Result
Project staff at the Urban Institute worked with experts in the field to develop recommendations for a research and demonstration agenda to improve the recruitment and retention of frontline long-term care workers.
December 14, 2005 | Toolkit
Using symbols for health care signage can successfully meet the wayfinding needs of patients that speak hundreds of different languages. This workbook is designed for health care facilities and graphic designers interested in learning about and usin ...
August 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Institute of Medicine developed a framework for how education, training and research in schools of public health could be strengthened to meet the needs of future public health professionals as they enter careers to improve public health.
December 1, 2002 | Program Result
Between 1997 and 2001, the Alcohol Research Information Service, a nonprofit organization in Lansing, Mich., undertook a project to increase circulation of its publications, develop a Web site and become self-sustaining.