RWJF Scholar Pioneers Innovative Program to Help Low-Income Elderly Age at Home
April 8, 2013 | Story
Nurse Faculty Scholar puts ‘handymen’ to work turning older people’s homes into safe, healthy environments.
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How Well Did Maryland Identify and Enroll Uninsured Children Who Are Potentially Eligible for Medicaid or CHIP?
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
Researchers at the Hilltop Institute evaluated the implementation of Maryland’s tax-based outreach initiative, the Kids First Act, and how well the state achieved its goal of identifying and enrolling uninsured children eligible for Medicaid or CHIP.
Nurse Practitioners and the Primary Care Shortage
March 20, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A new report examines the scope-of-practice laws and payment policies that affect how and to what extent nurse practitioners can provide primary care.
Nigerian Nurse Helps African Immigrants Battle Breast Cancer
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Ifeanyi Anne Nwabukwu, RN, BSN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
Use of a Microecological Technique to Study Crime Incidents Around Methadone Maintenance Treatment Centers
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
cq5dam.thumbnail.319.319 Read article There is no significant increase in serious crime around methadone treatment centers, according to this fine-grained geographic analysis in one city.
Project L/EARN: Graduates Reflect
August 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: What aspect of the Project L/EARN internship has been most helpful and why? Anane: The most helpful aspect for me has been the small classroom setting with basically one-on-one help. I took a biostatistics course at school and it was a huge cla ...
Preventing Violence: Discussion at NACCHO Annual
July 12, 2012 | New Public Health Post
>>EDITOR'S NOTE: On 9/13/2012 CeaseFire changed its name to Cure Violence. A group of impassioned attendees of the National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Meeting attended a screening of The Interrupters, a documentary about ...
Mindfulness and Yoga for Disadvantaged Urban Youth
June 11, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With that in mind, five years ago I began working with a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and Penn State to explore what a yoga program might do for kids. We began working with the Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) in Baltimore, Md., a small nonp ...
ACA Implementation--Monitoring and Tracking Series: Maryland
March 1, 2012 | Report
A combination of strong leadership, inclusive planning and deliberate but aggressive action by committed state officials and system stakeholders has permitted Maryland to make significant strides in designing its reformed health care system.
Kids Kicking Cancer
January 1, 2012 | Toolkit
The mission of Kids Kicking Cancer is to ease the pain of very sick children while empowering them to heal physically, spiritually and emotionally. Their goal is to create a replicable template for to children's hospitals and communities throughout the world linking children with support from caring, well trained and motivated professionals and volunteers.