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Researchers Hammond and Shields receive awards, opportunities to expand research

Washington University in St. Louis - Institute for

Written by Kim Furlow, communication programs manager, Institute for Public Health Two Public Health Faculty Scholars, who are also collaborators with WashUs Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, have recently received honors and opportunities to help expand their research.

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At the Core, Tuskegee Has Never Been Resolved

The Health Care Blog

Yobs, one of the US Public Health Service employees who designed the Tuskegee Study, and who wrote to her superior, “This is the first letter of this type we have received. On June 16, 1966, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article titled “Ethics and Clinical Research.” I do not plan to answer this letter.”.

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

Frontiers

Frontiers announces its first open-access agreement with Asian institution. One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and the open-access publisher Frontiers have today announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021.

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Lou Lasagna and the MIC “Integrated Career Ladder” – More Than Just A “Revolving Door.”

The Health Care Blog

But the academic role model for the “young physicians” of his day was not Sackler, but rather the physician and pharmacologist Louis Lasagna who had trained at Johns Hopkins. It also provided customized reports helping individual clients design their government-relations strategies in pursuit of favorable policies.

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10 ways North Carolina health care providers are harnessing AI

NC Health News

Wake Forest Baptist was the first academic medical center in the country to start using the technology in March 2023, it said in a news release. NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year. The researchers found it was 13 percent more accurate than human schedulers.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Through working with community-based organizations, institutions of higher learning, and healthcare plans within the municipality work she is dedicated to addressing the disparities faced by Black women in maternal health outcomes. Augustine for Health Sciences in Miami, Florida.

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The Future of Public Health: One Student’s Vision for Equity and Advocacy

Research America

On the Monday before Thanksgiving, Research!America America and leading public health organizations take the time to say “thank you” to our public health workforce who work tirelessly every day in communities across the country to protect us from disease, injury, and other health threats. America.