August 9, 2011
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A team at Harvard led by Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H, built several health-related social network data sets and used them to analyze the role social networks play in health and health care. Some findings achieved national media coverage.
August 4, 2011
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Faith-based Advocacy: Galvanizing Communities to End Childhood Obesity asked faith-based coalitions for proposals to advance community policies or environmental changes that improve access to healthy foods and/or opportunities for physical activity
August 1, 2011
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PolicyLink, in partnership with the Food Trust and the Reinvestment Fund, developed and promoted model federal policies to improve local food environments and increase access to healthy, affordable foods.
August 1, 2011
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Researchers at Columbia University conducted surveys of the general public and of social services experts to collect information to help policy-makers develop a standard of health insurance affordability.
July 8, 2011
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The Corporation for Supportive Housing created Taking Health Care Home, a national effort from 2002 to 2010 to expand the pipeline of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people.
May 31, 2011
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows is a leadership development program designed to prepare a select cadre of registered nurses (R.N.s) who are in senior executive positions for influential roles in shaping the U.S. health care system of the future.
May 31, 2011
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During the 2009-10 debate over health care reform, the PICO National Network conducted the Faith and Family Voices for Health Reform Project which provided resources and training to clergy and faith leaders seeking to participate in the debate.
May 23, 2011
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From 2009 to 2010, Active Voice, San Francisco, organized Ingredients for Change, a nationwide grassroots campaign designed to spur public awareness and advocacy around healthy food, food justice and childhood obesity.
May 23, 2011
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In late 2006, the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania launched a website, YouthMediaRisk.org, to make data and findings of the center's Coding of Mental Health and Media Project (CHAMP) available to the public.
May 20, 2011
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Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
