Boston Public Health Students Get Real World Experience at Real World Public Health Day 2012News by Institute for Community Health | April 4, 2012 Real World Public Health is an annual half-day event geared toward Boston-area students interested in public health careers. This year’s event took place on April 4 at Cambridge Health Alliance’s Windsor Street Clinic. Co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Health Department…
Expanding Online Resources em infecções sexualmente transmissíveis e ContracepçãoNews by Institute for Community Health | March 21, 2012 ICH’s Eileen Dryden, PhD, Cambridge Health Alliance’s Community Affairs Department, and Somerville Primary Care have worked together to develop a brochure and internet site with information on Sexual and Reproductive Health for the local Brazilian community. The brochure is now…
ICH Poster on Ethnic, Racial, Language and Insurance Differences in Screening for Postpartum Depression at Women’s Health 2012 ConferenceNews by Institute for Community Health | March 18, 2012 ICH Research Associate Nazmim Bhuiya, MPH recently represented ICH at the Women’s Health 2012: The 20th Annual Congress conference in Washington, DC. She presented a poster titled “Ethnic, Racial, Language, and Insurance Differences in Screening Postpartum Women for Depression.” The…
Study on the Impact of Transitioning to Electronic Health Records in Pediatrics Appears in Latest Psychiatric ServicesNews by Institute for Community Health | March 16, 2012 In a recent study of a large pediatric practice, Dr. Karen Hacker, MD, MPH, Executive Director of ICH, Dr. Robert Penfield of the University of Washington, and Dr. Fang Zhang and Dr. Stephen Soumerai of the Department of Population Medicine,…
ICH Community Partnership with Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Featured Success Story on Tufts WebsiteNews by Institute for Community Health | March 16, 2012 With seed funding from the Tufts Community Research Center, ICH researcher Jocelyn Chu, ScD, MPH has been able to continue her partnership with the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK) – an agency serving domestic violence survivors and their…
JRI Adolescent Treatment EvaluationNews by Institute for Community Health | March 15, 2012 The purpose of the Justice Resource Institute’s (JRI) Greater Boston Integrated Adolescent Treatment Project is to fill a gap in family-centered substance abuse treatment for youth ages 12-17, focusing on youth who have co-occurring substance abuse and mental health concerns and those…
