You are now viewing 1 - 10 of 49 results
April 11, 2013 | New Public Health Post
NewPublicHealth spoke with Ross Brownson of the Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Brownson is exploring evidence-based decision making at local health departments.
April 10, 2013 | New Public Health Post
NewPublicHealth spoke with Dr. William Roper of the UNC Health Care System on his way to the Keeneland Conference about the drive to better use data, instead of anecdotes and personal beliefs, to drive decision-making.
April 25, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Last week’s Keeneland Conference included a session that looked at research in the area of law and legal process. The session was moderated by Scott Burris, JD, director of Public Health Law Research, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ...
April 19, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, Glen Mays, MPH, PhD, F. Douglas Scutchfield Endowed Professor of Health Services and Systems R ...
April 18, 2012 | New Public Health Post
In 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, requested the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee to consider three major topics in public health: measurement, law and policy, and funding. The last of these reports, which recommends new ...
April 18, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Debra Joy Pérez, MA, MPA, PhD, assistant vice president for Research and Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was a keynote speaker at the Keeneland Conference yesterday and spoke about the evolution of public health services and system ...
April 17, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The annual Keeneland Conference kicked off today, where more than 300 public health services and systems researchers (PHSSR), public health officials and policy-makers have convened to discuss the latest issues in this growing field of research. PHS ...
April 17, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Public health departments have always been on the frontlines of keeping people safe and healthy. But given budget realities, how can they do more with less? And where should they invest to make the most dramatic improvements in people’s health? The ...
April 11, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Steven Teutsch: The committee believes that there’s a basic set of services that needs to be available to every resident of the United States, and that simply is not the case now. The committee actually recommends two things. One is that that basic ...
February 16, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Now more than ever public health officials and policy-makers need to make smart decisions about where to invest our limited public health resources, and public health services and systems research helps to uncover the data that points the way to sou ...