Food and Nutrition
In August, Urban Harvest launched its mobile market to bring healthy and affordable food options to underserved areas with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables. The nonprofit collaborated... [read more]
Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is developing an Automated Disease Surveillance (ADS) program using Stata statistical software. In addition to being able to analyze the health... [read more]
In collaboration with King County school districts, Public Health – Seattle & King County is developing school district health profiles that will inform school administrators and policy-makers... [read more]
Public Health - Seattle & King County (PHSKC), the NNIP partner organization for the Seattle area, is collaborating with other local open data organizations to make data more accessible and... [read more]
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is... [read more]
D3 is doing program evaluation for a project through a grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Office of Minority Health, the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan formed the... [read more]
In October 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis convened nearly 200 participants to a symposium on neighborhood indicators and data‐driven strategies. The symposium was focused around... [read more]
MCIC is in the early planning stages to design an index for the retail food environment in Chicago. MCIC will consider population density, all current food establishments, transportation and walk... [read more]
DMARC conducted its second round of interviews in spring 2011 with food pantry participants to know more about where they access food, food pantry usage, healthy & secure food etc. The report... [read more]
CBANA is translating national “Fragile Families” Data (Sara McClanahan et. al) to local analysis, creating estimates for the size of the population at various levels of risk... [read more]
I was involved in creating maps for spatial relationships between food pantry, local grocery stores and client’s travel distance to these locations. It was done for Des Moines Area... [read more]
A database of baseline measures to assess progress in equity across King County departments was developed by Public Health in collaboration with other departments. The measures will... [read more]
Race and Place Matter for Major Chicago Area Grocers. This report analyzed how geography and race impact grocery store locations in Chicago
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The Boston Opportunity Agenda is a $27million public/private partnership among the City of Boston, Boston Public Schools and funders to strengthen Boston’s education pipeline. Using... [read more]
Mapping 4 metro Council Districts, with public schools and parks located, for a group of churches that will do a census of grocery stores available in these areas.
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Public Health was awarded over $25 million in federal stimulus dollars, the largest grant in its history, for two successful grant proposals in an intensely competitive field. The two-year Centers... [read more]
For the next three years, HEALTH will track ten Rhode Island cities and towns using the CDC’s 24 Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity. Among the goals... [read more]
Food Access and Price is a follow up to a 2009 Ochs Center analysis that more than 70% of outlets that accept food stamps are “fringe food” outlets that often do not... [read more]
Created a new report on food deserts after holding a briefing then releasing the first report in a series on food deserts in Chattanooga: analysis of SNAP and WIC locations resulted... [read more]
King County’s regulation requiring fast food and chain restaurants to display calorie and other nutritional information went... [read more]
Community food security initiatives may, over the long term, increase the economic resources available to households to purchase food; strengthen local capacity for food production, processing,... [read more]
Local report as part of NNIP cross-site project on health:
"Research suggests that environmental factors likely account for the dramatic increase in... [read more]
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The Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC) released a report in October 2005 on the disparate access to goods and services for some Chicago neighborhoods. MCIC’s report, "Chain Reaction:...
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