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January 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Community Violence Prevention Project at the Harvard School of Public Health assists local leaders in planning, implementing and evaluating violence prevention projects in their communities.
November 1, 1996 | Program Result
The Community Violence Prevention Program, at the Harvard School of Public Health, implemented a resource center that provided technical assistance and informational support to program operators of community-based violence prevention programs.
National Program
Program to improve the health and safety of young people in urban areas by improving collaboration among youth-serving agencies and organizations.
February 28, 2000 | Program Result
Harvard University School of Public Health designed and fielded original public opinion surveys on health issues and reviewed and synthesized existing surveys conducted by other organizations.
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Health interventions that are long-term and place-based are embraced as providing low-income families with comprehensive services. To better understand the benefits from these services, this study assesses the role of residential mobility and the us ...
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite national prosperity which improved health outcomes for urban children from 1992-2002, disparities between children in distressed versus non-distressed cities, and between Black versus White urban children, did not improve.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article looks specifically at the design of the Urban Health Initiative evaluation. It highlights the program's integrated evaluation design, bringing together a theory of change and a quasi-experimental approach, including comparison city usage.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper looks at the issues of obesity, race and gender, and determines whether school environment influences body mass index (BMI) and whether the racial and gender context one grows up in may also end up affecting BMI.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the trade-offs between the city-level and neighborhood-based approaches, looking at the Urban Health Initiative aimed at improving the health and safety of children, as a specific case study.
May 1, 2000 | Program Result
Audits and Surveys Worldwide (ASW), a New York-based international marketing research firm, measured public attitudes and perceptions on a series of health issues in 1997.