A Matter of Degree (AMOD) Evaluation
Grant ID: 51879
The A Matter of Degree (AMOD) program evaluation examines a national demonstration initiative to reduce binge drinking and related harms among college students. AMOD is designed to create change by altering campus and community environments. Participating sites are using a coalition-based approach that brings campuses and communities together to change the conditions that promote heavy alcohol consumption prevalent in many campus-community environments. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health are examining program effects over time by assessing coalition structure and functioning, features of the college environment, program implementation and behavioral outcomes. The AMOD evaluation Web site describes the program evaluation and provides links to published evaluation research.

Active Living Research
Grant ID: PAP
The Active Living program supports research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity. Findings from this research will be used to help inform changes in policy and the design of the built environment to promote active living. Learn more about the activities of Active Living Research on its Web site.

Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce
Grant ID: BJC
Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) supports a range of demonstration projects to develop and diffuse long-term care workforce improvement efforts as well as applied research and evaluation projects to better understand what works in creating a committed, capable workforce. The BJBC Web site features information on both types of grants and publications such as issue briefs, reports and articles.

Bridging the Gap: Research Information Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior
Grant ID: YSA
Bridging the Gap is a program that promotes research to inform healthy youth behavior. This national program focuses on identifying the policy and environmental determinants of youth tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use within a nationally representative samples of 8th, 10th and 12th graders surveyed annually as part of the Monitoring the Future survey funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The two arms of this program are Impact Teen and Youth Education and Society. It also includes an interdisciplinary partnership of nationally recognized substance abuse experts with specialties in such areas as economics, etiology, epidemiology, law, political science, public policy, psychology and sociology. Beginning in 2002, this initiative expanded to begin to identify the school, community and state policy and environmental supports for youth physical activity, healthy eating and obesity. The Bridging the Gap Web site highlights research products, chart packs and policy briefs related to youth substance use.

California Health Interview Survey
Grant ID: 46008
The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is the largest state health survey and one of the largest health surveys in the United States. CHIS is conducted by the University of California-Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research in collaboration with the California Department of Health Services and the Public Health Institute. CHIS gives health planners, policy-makers, county governments, advocacy groups and communities a detailed picture of the health and health care needs facing California's diverse population at both the local and state level. RWJF supported the addition of a housing and community module to assess the impact of community environments on health status and access to health services for diverse ethnic groups and geographic settings. Visit the Web site for more information about the survey, its methodology, data files and research findings.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Grant ID: TFK
The mission of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is to improve health and save lives by preventing kids from smoking, helping smokers quit and protecting everyone from secondhand smoke. The Campaign's Web site helps inform the public, policy-makers and the media about tobacco control and offers ways for organizations and individuals to become involved in the effort. The Web site carries the full text of the Campaign's special reports, fact sheets, press releases, advertisements and other materials.

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Grant ID: DEM
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) is a nonpartisan policy and program resource center that works with institutional leaders, state officials and clinical providers to maximize outcomes for children through more effective health programming in schools. Its Web site offers information on publications and policies related to health programming in schools, resources for parents and quality and safety issues in school health.

Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)
Grant ID: MHC
Founded in 1995, HSC is a nonpartisan policy research organization focused on the cost, quality and accessibility of health care in the United States. HSC researchers focus on three main policy areas: insurance coverage and costs, access to care and local markets and managed care. Instead of advocating for particular policies, HSC serves as a broker of information for policy-makers, the news media, employers, health care providers, insurers and the public. Visit the HSC Web site to view research publications, issue briefs, tracking reports, data bulletins, journal articles and community reports.

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)
Grant ID: HFO
The Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) initiative strives to bridge the health policy and health services research communities by (1) providing public and private decision-makers with usable and timely information on health care policy, financing and market developments and (2) by bringing together the policy and research communities through meetings, issue identification, research translation and communication activities. HCFO supports investigator-initiated research and policy analysis, evaluation and demonstration projects examining major changes in health care financing, and their effects on cost, access, or quality. The HCFO Web site describes funding opportunities and grants as well as grant results and publications. It also includes monthly grantee spotlights and monthly hot topics (descriptions of major policy issues with a focus on how research in the HCFO pipeline can be helpful in considering policy options).

College Alcohol Study (CAS)
Grant ID: 35965
The College Alcohol Study (CAS) is an ongoing survey (begun in 1993) of a nationally representative sample of over 14,000 students at 120 four-year colleges in 40 states. The CAS examines the prevalence of heavy drinking on college campuses, the role of fraternities and sororities and athletics in this behavior, the relationship of state alcohol control measures and college policies to college drinking and the role that easy access to alcohol and low prices play. The study also provides a continuing look at other behavioral, social and health problems confronting today's American college students. The CAS Web site highlights CAS findings and resources related to college drinking.

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