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April 2, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
In what many believe to be a first-of-its-kind program, Pima County libraries teamed up with the county Health Department to start a jointly-funded “library nurse program.”
March 27, 2013 | Story
A Clinical Scholar alumna leads work to strengthen Newtown’s mental health safety net and offers advice to other providers.
December 31, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A Doctor Delivers Multiple Acts of Human Kindness to Homeless Women. “She was just one more homeless woman who had been raped, a ‘nobody,’ just more paperwork,” blogged RWJF Community Health Leader Roseanne H. Means, MD, explaining why a woman in he ...
December 20, 2012 | Program Result
Staff at the College of Allied Health and Nursing of Minnesota State University at Mankato created a curriculum and certification process for community health workers and advanced their role in the state's health care system.
November 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Mixteca Organization, Inc., in Brooklyn, N.Y., provides a broad scope of health and education programs, including literacy and computer classes, English-language courses, and afterschool programs, to thousands of Hispanic New Yorkers each year.
November 16, 2012 | Story
RWJF grantee presents his research at the American Public Health Association annual meeting.
November 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Practice Without Pressure works with patients, family members, caregivers and providers to help people with disabilities receive quality medical, dental and personal care.
November 1, 2012 | New Public Health Post
“The time is right for community health workers to be even more [integrated] into the community health system to help achieve the triple aim of better care, better outcomes and lower cost,” said Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, vice president for medical a ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
An assessment of the effectiveness of stand-alone mass media campaigns to increase physical activity at the population level, specifically during 1998-2008.
October 31, 2012 | New Public Health Post
“The reason we got together was that the problems we were seeing when we asked, ‘what is making you unwell?’ were things traditionally unlinked to health such as violence and blight,” said German Martinez, program specialist for the Alameda health d ...