This study investigates the changes in hospital participation in local public health systems and the delivery of public health activities over time and assessed the relationship between hospital participation and the scope of activities available in local public health systems. Using longitudinal...

The delivery of population health services is a cross-sector effort that involves many different organizations in the community. While research has shown the collaborative nature of public health, very little has examined the relationship between community characteristics and the nature and volume...

This study tests the effectiveness of multi-sector financing and delivery strategies in expanding the reach and impact of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program across the U.S. Despite rigorous evidence of its ability to improve health and social outcomes for low-income pregnant women and their...

Overview The State Health Expenditure Dataset was designed to better understand the impact of cost-effectiveness of public spending on public health. The collection includes approximately 1.9 million individual records, which were characterized into over 60,000 individual program categories. This...

What is Systems for Action? Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that builds a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems. Health is shaped by a...

Public health networks that include tribal organizations have the potential to better serve American Indian/Alaskan Native residents living in and outside of tribal lands. In this study, we aim to understand the variation of inclusion of tribal organizations to deliver public health services and the...

The Collaborating Research Center (CRC) at the University of Chicago is housed in the University of Chicago Urban Labs, an organizational structure within the university led by a multidisciplinary team that seeks to develop, test, and scale interventions to improve the lives of urban residents as...

The Collaborating Research Center at Arizona State University (ASU) brings together experts from the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy (CABHP), the Center for Health Information Research (CHiR), and the Decision Theater (DT) as well as faculty from the ASU School for the Science of Health...