TEDMED Talks: 'Cure Violence' Founder on Treating Violence as a Contagious Disease
May 16, 2013 | New Public Health Post
TEDMED Talks: 'Cure Violence' Founder on Treating Violence as a Contagious Disease
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Police Foot Patrols Cut Crime
May 9, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Crime and violence in U.S. inner cities has a profound impact on public health. The question is how best to combat it. According to recent studies, one answer could be as simple as assigning more police officers to foot patrols in crime hotspots.
Gun Violence: Live Harvard School of Public Health Webcast Tomorrow
January 7, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Tuesday, January 8, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. EST, the Harvard School of Public Health, in collaboration with Reuters, will present an hour long live webcast on gun violence, in response to the too many recent gun massacres. The webcast is part of the ...
Preventing Youth Violence: Updates from the Field
November 5, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Last week at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting, a number of presenters took on an important, but often overlooked topic in the public health world: violence. Violence is often primarily considered a criminal justice or pub ...
Hospital Partnerships to Cure Violence
November 1, 2012 | New Public Health Post
>>EDITOR'S NOTE: On 9/13/2012 CeaseFire changed its name to Cure Violence. Sheila Regan manages hospital partnerships for Cure Violence, formerly CeaseFire, an organization based in Chicago that has pioneered a public health approach to stopping sho ...
Promoting Physical Activity: But is it Safe to Go Outside?
October 11, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Martin Fenstersheib, MD, MPH, director of the Santa Clara County Public Health Department in California led a session on safe outdoor activity for kids and adults at the 2012 Public Health Law Conference. NewPublicHealth spoke to Dr. Fenstersheib ab ...
Preventing Violence: Discussion at NACCHO Annual
July 12, 2012 | New Public Health Post
>>EDITOR'S NOTE: On 9/13/2012 CeaseFire changed its name to Cure Violence. A group of impassioned attendees of the National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Meeting attended a screening of The Interrupters, a documentary about ...
Human Capital News Roundup: Medication errors affecting children with cancer, particulate matter, the needs of urban communities, and more.
May 2, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows, alumni and grantees.
Child Abuse Pediatrics Chooses You
January 25, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Brendan T. Campbell, MD, MPH is an assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and an alumnus of the RWJF Clinical Scholars program.
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 ...