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February 20, 2013 | Program Result
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public sponsored an online competition to identify innovative health care programs in developing countries with potential to be replicated in the United States and selected three winners from 373 entries.
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Higher cognitive impacts were observed in the more walkable neighborhoods suggesting that those living in environments conducive to walking may be more affected by mass media physical activity campaigns.
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Higher populations of low-income and low-education residents had greater access to the subway and bicycle share program.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the extent to which smoking prevalence varies across geographic areas, specifically communities, health regions, and provinces/territories in Canada, independent of individual characteristics. Geography contributed to the total variation in smoking at 8.4 percent.
August 2, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The opportunity to participate in this international event which celebrated the accomplishments of some very amazing people was a proud and humbling moment. Humbling because I never expected something this significant would happen to me. However, it ...
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Global health challenges are increasingly more prominent as city populations continue to grow, making community health a priority.
July 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This post is part of a series in which Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, grantees and alumni offer perspectives on the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Affordable Care Act. Julia Lynch, PhD, is an associate professor at the U ...
June 1, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
I left the building to breathe and had scarcely been outside for more than a moment when someone had come to retrieve me, saying the young woman and her mother had asked for me. It seemed even the air had changed since I had left a moment before. Th ...
May 18, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Deborah Bae and Jane Issacs Lowe discuss the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s “Realigning Health with Care.”
May 16, 2012 | Program Result
Ashoka, via its Changemakers initiative, hosted two international online idea competitions and developed Changeshops, an open-source platform allowing innovators to introduce their projects, seek funding and exchange ideas.