Search Results: MCH Organizations

Annotation: The Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research (formerly the Duke University Center for Health Policy) stimulates and facilitates collaborative, interdisciplinary research focusing on population based health, health systems, intervention, and evaluation. The Center also offers an array of educational opportunities for students seeking careers in health policy making, research, and analysis.

Keywords: Educational programs, Health policy, Interdisciplinary approach, Legal processes, Management, Public health, Research, Social sciences, University affiliated centers

Annotation: The Center for HIV Law and Policy is a national legal and policy resource and strategy center for people with HIV and their advocates. CHLP works to reduce the impact of HIV on vulnerable and marginalized communities and to secure the human rights of people affected by HIV. Legal and policy materials are available through an accessible web-based resource bank; interdisciplinary support networks of experts, activists, and professionals are cultivated; and a strategic leadership hub tracks and advances advocacy on critical HIV legal, health, and human rights issues.

Keywords: Advocacy, HIV, Human rights, Patient advocacy, Patient rights, Social policy

Annotation: The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, whose mission is to increase government effectiveness through rigorous evidence about what works. The Coalition advocates many types of research to identify promising interventions in federal social and health programs such as education, poverty reduction, crime prevention, health care, and other areas. It includes a Top Tier Evidence initiative that identifies social program models that meet top tier evidence standards set out in federal legislation and other resources.

Keywords: Evidence, Model programs, Program evaluation, Social policy

Annotation: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is responsible for the federal government's health, welfare, and income security plans and programs. The department administers the Public Health Service (including the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, among other agencies.

Keywords: Data, Directories, Federal agencies, Federal programs, Health policy, Online databases, Public health, Social security, Statistics

Annotation: FHI 360 is a global development organization committed to solving social problems in the United States and around the world through education, social marketing, research, training, policy analysis, and innovative program design and management. FHI 360's programs focus primarily on health, education, youth development, and the environment. It acquired the programs, expertise, and assets of the Academy for Educational Development in 2011.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child development, Child health, Community development, Developing countries, Education, Educational change, Educational materials, Environment, International health, International health, Policy analysis, program management, Research, Social problems, Teaching, Training Program development, Youth

Annotation: The Goldwater Institute was established in 1988 as an independent, nonpartisan research and educational organization dedicated to the study of public policy in Arizona. The Institute advances public policies based on the principles championed by the late Senator Barry Goldwater during his years of public service -- limited government, economic freedom, and individual responsibility. Goldwater scholars compile research papers and commentaries and participate in policy briefings and events.

Keywords: Policy, Private sector, Social services

Annotation: Healthy Food America is a national 501(c)3 nonprofit launched in 2016 to act on scientific evidence to drive change in food policy and industry practice, giving people greater control over their health and reducing diet-related illnesses, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

Keywords: Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Disease prevention, Nutrition, Organizational change, Policy development, Social change

Annotation: Institute for People, Place & Possibility (IP3) helps organizations, communities, and governments improve the understanding of, investment in, and action toward the vitality of people, places, and the natural environment. Services include data visualization and geographic information systems mapping, evidence and impact research, and storytelling and social media. IP3 supports Community Commons, an interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for the healthy/sustainable/livable communities' movement.

Keywords: Collaboration, Communication, Community health, Data, Networking, Policy development, Public private partnerships, Research, Social change, Social learning

Annotation: The ultimate goal of The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child is to enhance the early development of children through the design and implementation of effective public and private policies and programs. The council works to translate and disseminate research findings on early childhood development to the media, the public, and the nation's policymakers; and identify evidence-based strategies to guide social policies, professional services, and parenting practices. The council, housed at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute.

Keywords: Early childhood development, Evidence, Information dissemination, Program development, Public policy, Research, Social policy

Annotation: The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that addresses the next generation of challenges facing the United States in a changing 21st century information-age economy -- an era shaped by transforming innovation and wealth creation, but also by shortened job tenures, longer life spans, mobile capital, financial imbalances and rising inequality. The foundation addresses U.S. fiscal challenges and pay for needed public, social and environmental investments, as well as foreign and defense policies to protect its citizens and interests in a rapidly integrating world.

Keywords: Policy analysis, Public policy, Social policy