S4A grantees from The Ohio State University, University of Colorado, Denver, Stanford University, and Mandela Yoga Project gave a panel presentation at American Public Health Association's 2025 Annual Meeting in celebration of the upcoming AJPH Special Issue. Researchers discussed what each project...

S4A investigators at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health created a novel initiative in 2012, Housing for Health (HFH), with a three-pronged mission: (1) to end homelessness in L.A. County, (2) to reduce the need for costly medical care services, and (3) to improve health outcomes for...

Overview Residents in the Chicago metro area are benefiting from research conducted by Drs. David Meltzer and Harold Pollack at the University of Chicago School of Medicine and Urban Labs, a Collaborative Research Center funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Their team of...

Overview The research project was featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation blog in a post titled, “System and Services Research for Better Health” on April 18, 2017. The full post can be read here. Details Project: Financing and Service Delivery Integration for Mental Illness and Substance...

Overview Physician David Meltzer of the University of Chicago talked about the power of the doctor-patient relationship with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Meltzer, who also has a Ph.D. in economics, discussed a controlled experiment he has overseen to measure the importance of maintaining the...

Overview You know that old saying about two things you can’t escape: death and taxes? These days it seems there should be a third: rising healthcare costs. Healthcare costs is something that hits everyone — from patients and doctors to hospitals and insurance companies. But what if those costs could...

Overview The three-year "Aligning Health and Social Systems to Expand Evidence-Based Home-Visiting" study will examine cross-sector collaboration between health care and social services with Nurse-Family Partnership ® (NFP) – a national evidence-based home-visiting program designed to improve the...

Overview An article published in the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled "Drexel program addresses trauma to help women in poverty save money - and one day create a bank" focuses on the Building Wealth and Health Network, which aims to break the cycle of poverty by teaching women who have nearly nothing...

Overview An article published in the Triangle entitled "Peer trauma support improves recovery for welfare recipients" examines Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients who are likely to earn more money if they are given peer support to help deal with past and current traumas. The full...

Overview ACEs Connection is a social network that supports communities to accelerate the global ACEs science movement, recognizes the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and promotes trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in...