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Dec 5, 2011

''FDA sees huge opportunities in opening up drug data''

“Regulators and drugmakers need to find ways to make more clinical data openly available, since vital knowledge about fighting disease is often locked away in confidential databases, the head of the U.S. drugs watchdog said on Monday. Food and

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Medical Safety
Feb 16, 2010

''Katie Couric Interviews Former FDA Commissioner and 'Fast Food Nation.' Author''

''Following up on the CBS Evening News two part series documenting the overuse of antibiotics in food animal production, Katie Couric interviews Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, and Eric Schlosser, 'Fast Food Nation' author.''

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Medical Safety, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Oct 6, 2010

''Dr. Oz: What's In the Nation's Chicken''

''Please take a moment to watch Dr. Oz revealing exactly what's in your chicken.''

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Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Mar 18, 2009

''Legislation would curb antibiotic use at CAFOs''

''Federal legislation was re-introduced on Tuesday to curb the use by industrial livestock farms of massive amounts of antibiotics important in human medicine.''

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Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Mar 4, 2013

Grantee VCU Releases Final HIA Offering Recommendations on Proposed Alternative Energy Facility

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers release the first HIA in Virginia, which finds that a proposed alternative energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley might improve health risks related to water quality but contribute to air pollution.

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Health Impact Assessment
Oct 24, 2012

New HIA Identifies Possible Health Effects of Casino Development in Southeast Kansas

A new report on a health impact assessment conducted by the Kansas Health Institute, a grantee of the Health Impact Project, examines potential health benefits and risks of developing a casino in southeast Kansas.

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Health Impact Assessment
Oct 9, 2012

Funding from Kaiser Permanente Colorado Will Support Sustainable HIA Program in Denver Metro Region

The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, today announced that Kaiser Permanente Colorado will support one health impact assessment (HIA) program grant, of up to $250,000, in the Denver metropolitan region.

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Health Impact Assessment
Aug 15, 2012

Health Impact Project Holds Web Conferences for Grant Applicants

Funding is available to conduct Health Impact Assessments. Join upcoming webinars to learn more.

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Health Impact Assessment
Feb 2, 2012

''Healthy Corridor For All?''

The HIA built relationships between technical advisors and the Corridor’s many ethnic groups while encouraging community leadership in science-based policy proposals for equitable land-use decisions

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Health Impact Assessment
Jan 24, 2012

''Building for Health: Improving Our Cities, Homes and Lives''

"How does where we live impact our health? It's a big and complex question, but Richard Jackson, MD, MPH is leading the way towards answers -- and interventions."

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Health Impact Assessment
Jan 24, 2012

''Could Rising Healthcare and Utility Bills Get Kentucky Off Coal?''

"The Health Impact Assessment on Coal and Clean Energy Options in Kentucky, prepared by the Kentucky Environmental Foundation collates all the available peer-reviewed reports on the health impacts of both coal production and various types of renewable energy production, in an attempt to encourage legislators who have historically ignored the environmental impact of coal to take a look at the health impacts associated with various energy production decisions."

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Health Impact Assessment
Jan 16, 2012

''NashVitality Week preaches healthy Nashville''

"The final piece of NashVitality Week is a series of health impact assessment workshops. The first takes place today; another will take place Friday and the third on Jan. 25."

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Health Impact Assessment
Jan 3, 2012

Oregon Public Health Division Releases Wind Energy Health Impact Assessment for Public Comment

The Oregon Public Health Division spent the last year responding to questions from the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), local health departments, and community members in Eastern Oregon about the potential health impacts of wind energy facilities on Oregon communities.

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Health Impact Assessment
Jan 2, 2012

''County may look at health impacts of bus transfers''

"County commissioners will consider a proposal Thursday morning asking the Oregon Health Authority for $15,000 to study the impact of TriMet’s bus/train transfer times."

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Health Impact Assessment
Jan 2, 2012

''Study on Major Duluth Road gives Pedestrians Hope for Change''

"A major thoroughfare that separates Duluth's Central and East Hillside neighborhoods, is traveled by thousands every day. There's a push to make it safer for those who use it most."

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Health Impact Assessment
Dec 16, 2011

“HIA Research Article Selected as one of the Most Influential of 2011“

The paper, “Health Impact Assessments Are Needed In Decision Making About Environmental And Land-Use Policy,” was authored by Health Impact Project director Aaron Wernham and selected based on research and popularity as revealed by the number of visits each article collected since published to the RWJF website.

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Health Impact Assessment
Dec 5, 2011

''Clark County bike-walk plan earns national award for fighting obesity''

"In a press release, Clark County Public Health announced it received Active Living Research’s 2012 Translating Research to Policy Award for its Health Impact Assessment of the Clark County Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan."

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Health Impact Assessment
Nov 15, 2011

Commentary: ''N.Y. has to really study gas drilling impact''

"When Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would let science and health concerns drive his decision about issuing permits for hydraulic fracturing natural gas wells, we were encouraged. When we read the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, however, that encouragement evaporated."

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Health Impact Assessment
Nov 8, 2011

''Centers for Disease Control and Prevention''

"New funding will give city and county officials a chance to better understand how policy decisions might affect residents’ health in areas including public transportation and access to healthy foods."

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Health Impact Assessment
Oct 24, 2011

''Riding bus may improve health''

"Bus riders get a boost in physical activity just by walking to and from stops, suggests a new Metro Public Health Department study, whose findings are in line with national research."

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Health Impact Assessment
Oct 20, 2011

''Change Your Neighborhood, Improve Your Health''

"When a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offered a program in the 1990s to move families out of poor neighborhoods, it created a unique opportunity not only to improve people’s day-to-day lives, but also to study how a change in environment might impact their health over the long term."

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Health Impact Assessment
Oct 5, 2011

''NY doctors want health study of gas drilling''

"More than 250 doctors and other health care professionals have signed a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeking a comprehensive human health study of the state's proposal to permit new deep drilling for natural gas across the Marcellus Shale region of upstate New York."

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Health Impact Assessment
Sep 15, 2011

''CDC awards Davidson health grant''

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded Davidson a $350,000 grant to study healthy community initiatives over the next three years, Planning Manager Lauren Blackburn announced in Roosevelt Wilson Park on Friday, Sept. 9."

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Health Impact Assessment
Sep 8, 2011

''Health Impact Assessments: A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Pamela Russo''

NewPublicHealth spoke with Pamela Russo, M.D., M.P.H. a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, about the foundation’s investments to increase the use of health impact assessments and the contents of a newNational Research Council report.

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Health Impact Assessment
Jul 11, 2013

''Source of Listeria Outbreak Linked to Wisconsin Cheesemaker Still Uncertain, Company Says''

"Inspectors haven't yet determined the source of a Midwest listeria outbreak linked to a Wisconsin cheesemaker, the company's president said."

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Food Safety