RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
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The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships which are helping people live healthier lives. The six winners were selected from more than 160 applicants from across the country.
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Commission to Build a Healthier America
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Commission to Build a Healthier America
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The reconvened Commission to Build a Healthier America will provide new guidance in two key areas: early childhood and healthy communities.
Primary Care and Population Health: Last in a Five-Part Series
February 8, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
The New York Academy recently conducted a survey of 17 thought leaders in primary care and population health. In the final of five blog posts, we share a synthesis of what those leaders had to say.
Investing in What Works: Toward Healthy, Prosperous Communities
December 5, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Will we ever see the end of poverty in the United States? An “Investing in What Works for America’s Communities” event held December 4 in Washington, D.C., looked at the evidence and leading examples toward doing just that. The event, sponsored by t ...
Healthy Kids Lead to a Healthy Economy: Op-Ed
December 4, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new op-ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune makes clear the connection between the economy and improving public health.
Power in Greening
November 1, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The city of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society are seeing positive results as they continue to grow their Philadelphia Green program. The program has taken on the vacant lots in Philadelphia neighborhoods and transformed them fro ...
Adewale Troutman: NewPublicHealth Q&A
October 31, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, becomes president of the American Public Health Association today. Dr. Troutman is the former head of the Metro Louisville (Kentucky) Department of Health and Wellness, and is currently a professor of public health practic ...
Engaging Partners and "Pillars of the Community"
October 31, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Alameda is a county of opposites, according to Liz Maker, Evaluation Specialist at Alameda County Public Health Department - some very poor, some doing amazingly well and in some cases those sections are separated only by a block or a fence.
Health Happens Here: Q&A with Robert Ross, President of The California Endowment
October 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
"Black men today are more likely to receive a GED in prison than graduate from college. One in three black men, and one in six Latino men, are projected to go to prison in their lifetimes. There is new hope--Sacramento is now responding to this cris ...
An APHA Presentation: Addressing Racial Health Disparities with Culturally Competent Interventions Delivered from the African American Church
October 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This week, I am part of a team that had the honor of being chosen to conduct a presentation on mental health in African American faith-based communities at the 140th Annual Meeting and Exposition for the American Public Health Association (APHA).