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December 20, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Teenagers from lower-income, predominately Black neighborhoods in Baltimore purchased sugary beverages after seeing calorie information on signs posted in convenience stores, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health la ...
December 13, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a home page redesign yesterday that reflects the growing use of social media to access health information. The home page now prominently features the agency’s Twitter and Facebook feeds. ...
October 31, 2011 | New Public Health Post
At an APHA session this morning, researchers from the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity released a new study, which found that beverage companies extensively market sugary drinks to youths. The report’s authors studied the marketing practic ...
April 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Coffee-table books are designed to draw attention, and that is precisely what nurses got after the 2012 publication of a hefty tome featuring portraits of nurses from all walks of life.
February 8, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.
April 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy is about to celebrate its first anniversary. The Strategy offers a comprehensive plan aimed at increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life. A cornerstone of the Nati ...
March 28, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Love her or hate her, Jackie Peyton—also known as “Nurse Jackie,” the lead character in the eponymous prime-time medical drama on Showtime—inspires passion. "Despite her deeply flawed persona, Jackie is an unusually helpful TV nurse because, as a sk ...
October 31, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Television gets a bad rap for negative health messages. But some groups are turning that around by incorporating health messages into popular television shows and movies, like Grey’s Anatomy, House and ER on TV and the movie Contagion on the big scr ...
August 11, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
By Linda Wright Moore RWJF Senior Communications Officer Attending the 36th annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) last week in Philadelphia provided an opportunity to reflect on the many challenges facing reporter ...
June 28, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
To examine the extent of medical students’ relationships with industry – as well as the impact of these interactions – my colleagues, Kirsten Austad and Jerry Avorn, M.D., and I conducted a systematic review of the literature, examining all publishe ...