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SEED Method Celebration Event

On Friday November 13th, Engaging Richmond hosted a celebration luncheon at the East District Family Resource Center to celebrate the work and contributions of project participants in VCU Center on Society and Health’s SEED Method Study, a novel approach designed to engage community stakeholders in developing research questions around health related topics. These community stakeholders…

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Urban Institute weighs in on climbing death rates among middle-aged whites

In a recent Health Affairs blog article, Urban Institute researcher Laudy Aron responded to a new widely publicized study released by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton and Anne Case, on the startling rise of death rates among middle-aged white Americans. While Aron acknowledges their study addresses an “urgent national problem,” she argues that by combining…

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Big Data Community Design Team Meeting in San Diego

As part of the Center’s ongoing work on the Big Data Demonstration Project, director Steve Woolf, and one of the Center’s community engagement leaders, Amber Haley, traveled to San Diego to meet with the project’s Community Design Team as well as research partners from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego…

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Engaging Richmond at East End Community Field Day

Article by Travis White, Engaging Richmond member Engaging Richmond has been working hard on its latest community research project and has been actively reaching out and partnering with community organizations and their members. On August 20, 2015 Engaging Richmond members participated in the 3rd annual East End Community Field Day hosted by Richmond Promise Neighborhood…

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Utilizing Different Perspectives in Community Research

Written by: Isra Malik, an MPH student at Virginia Commonwealth University who completed a summer internship at the Center on Society and Health The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-funded research study at VCU’s Center on Society and Health (CSH) recently completed several major project milestones. The SEED Method, a novel approach developed by Dr….

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New Maps Show Large Differences in Health Across Short Distances in North Carolina

New maps released today by the Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) illustrate that opportunities to lead a long and healthy life can vary dramatically across North Carolina. Along the mostly rural stretch of U.S. Rte. 64 that leads west from Martin County to Wake County, life expectancy can differ by as much…

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New briefs explore connections between income or wealth and health

The greater one’s income, the lower one’s likelihood of disease and premature death. Americans at all income levels are less healthy than those with higher incomes. Not only is income associated with better health, but wealth affects health as well. Though it is easy to imagine how health is tied to income for the very…

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