In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 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." |
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." |
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." |
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." |
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." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Oct 5, 2011 | "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." | 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." |
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. |
Health Impact Assessment |
| 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.'' |
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.'' |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
