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June 4, 2012 | Story
Recommended Reading Keeping Families Together: A Pilot Program and Its Evaluation Keeping Families Together The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Yo ...
May 31, 2012 | Video/Story
Promise story for Keeping Families Together, a grantee of the Vulnerable Populations portfolio.
May 2, 2012 | New Public Health Post
JAMA Study Raises Concerns about Quality of Clinical Trials A new analysis of three years of clinical trial data published on ClinicalTrials.gov, a registry maintained by the National Institutes of Health, found that many of the trials were too smal ...
May 1, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution Increases Risk of Chronic Diseases in Older Adults Older adults may be at increased risk of being hospitalized for lung and heart disease, stroke, and diabetes after long-term exposure to fine-particle air polluti ...
April 26, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The connection between health and energy consumption is an area just beginning to be understood, but when some people are forced to choose between paying their energy bill and paying for food or medicine, it becomes critical. The Health Impact Proje ...
April 10, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Oregon Public Health Institute (OPHI) and its partners recently received funding to conduct a health impact assessment (HIA) of the City of Portland’s rental housing inspections program. The purpose of the HIA is to assess the relative health impact ...
April 4, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Safe, vibrant neighborhoods are vital to health. The community development industry—a network of nonprofit service providers, real estate developers, financial institutions, foundations and government—brings together public and private funds and dir ...
March 22, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new post on the blog of the Network for Public Health Law by Network staff attorney Jennifer Bernstein underscores the critical need for updated housing laws that provide safer rental housing stock for tenants. Under the Uniform Residential Landlo ...
December 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Where you live—your zip code, your neighborhood, and even your home—may have just as much or more impact on your health as what goes on in the doctor’s office. “You can predict the life expectancy of a child by the zip code in which they grow up. Th ...
October 21, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Craig Pollack , MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar alumnus (2006-2009), has been looking at the ways the nation’s housing crisis is harming the health of those affected by foreclosures. In a series of studies conducted with fellow s ...