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The research team of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services’ Department of Health Policy’s Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance received a $250,000 donation from Allergan, Inc. to support public health, policy analysis and research about the economic and health impact of obesity and related chronic diseases. The donation is part of Allergan, Inc.’s public awareness and advocacy campaign called C.H.O.I.C.E. – Choosing Health over Obesity Inspiring Change through Empowerment – which advocates for consumers, healthcare professionals and Congress to work together to successfully address the adult obesity epidemic through a dual focus on prevention and treatment.

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In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, The George Washington University, School of Public Health & Health Services releases "SAHNA 2010: A South Asian Health Needs Assessment of the Washington, D.C. Region". This report is the first study of this magnitude in the Washington, D.C. area to assess the health needs of a growing and diverse minority population.

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The George Washington University announced today plans to begin construction of a new building for its School of Public Health and Health Services on Pennsylvania Avenue, to be completed in the summer of 2014. The new silver LEED certified building will provide a consolidated home for the school’s 1,500 students and serve as a central location for continued research and collaboration with a wide variety of government and non-governmental organizations.

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Today, The George Washington University Board of Trustees voted to approve the formation of the GW School of Nursing. The nursing school will be composed of the Master of Science in Nursing programs, the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, the second degree Bachelor of Science in nursing program, and other post-masters certificate programs. These programs have been in existence within the Department of Nursing Education and have resided within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

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Washington, D.C. and New York—Each year, between 50 and 85 percent of health center patients - or between ten and seventeen million people - experience unmet legal needs, many of which negatively impact their health, according to a new study from the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. This number is likely to increase given the profound changes in eligibility, plan enrollment, provider selection, and service delivery embodied in the newly enacted health reform law.

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The George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services has partnered with the Grassroot Project, an organization of NCAA Division I varsity athletes using the universal language of sports to engage youth in educational outreach about HIV/AIDS. GW researchers are working with the Grassroot Project to develop and implement a sustainable monitoring and evaluation plan.

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GW Professor Dr. Celeste Monforton, an expert on worker safety, will testify at a congressional hearing on a proposal to strengthen protections for workers who blow the whistle on dangerous workplace conditions. She will speak as an advocate for families of workers killed, and those who are seriously injured or become ill on the job. Dr. Monforton’s research and her career have focused on occupational safety, and more specifically, mine safety.

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The GW Community Completed More Than 100,000 Hours of Service to Secure the First Lady as its Commencement Speaker, Sunday, May 16 on the National Mall.

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The George Washington University and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launch Health Reform GPS, a Web portal that will help key stakeholders understand and operationalize health reform legislation.

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A new study by researchers at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology raises hope that autism may be more easily diagnosed and that its effects may be more reversible than previously thought. Researchers have identified potentially removable chemical tags (called “methyl groups”) on specific genes of autistic individuals that led to gene silencing. They also observed these changes in cells derived from blood, opening the way to molecular screening for autism using a blood test.

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A new study by researchers at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology highlights a mechanism for significant disruption of gene activity in autism that may be reversible. Published in the journal Genome Medicine on April 7, the study focuses on the differential expression of microRNA and addresses the issue of higher level regulation of gene expression in autism.

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Researchers at The GW Cancer Institute, with funding from the National Cancer Institute, examined the effect of race and health insurance status on diagnostic and treatment delays over a 5-year period, with initial screenings going back 12 years, and found that race may play a larger role than previously thought when it comes to optimal diagnosis and treatment of black women with breast cancer.

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The GW Health Services Management and Leadership Department in the School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) has been awarded a $4.6 million grant, entitled “GW HITECH University Based Training,” by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator. The grant will increase the number of university-prepared persons possessing the requisite skills needed to serve in a variety of health information technology roles in public and private health care organizations across the United States.

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As the debate over healthcare insurance reform continues, faculty members of The George Washington University Medical Center are available to comment on topics regarding health insurance reform, including: general policy/political analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, compliance, community health centers, state health reform, affordability, finance and health technology information.

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As the debate over healthcare insurance reform continues, faculty members of The George Washington University Medical Center are available to comment on topics regarding health insurance reform, including: general policy/political analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, compliance, community health centers, state health reform, affordability, finance and health technology information.

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A new analysis of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed on December 24, 2009 by the United States Senate, was released today by The GW School of Public Health and Health Services, Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program. This new analysis focuses on key legal changes in the Senate-passed legislation and highlights relevant provisions addressed in the President’s health reform proposal (released by the White House on February 22, 2010).

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Well-preserved, nearly complete skeleton is a relative of the Velociraptor; will help scientists further describe the physical appearance of other closely-related dinosaurs within the Dromaeosauridae family. Research led by Dr. Xu Xing.

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Primary care physicians agree they have a role in addressing obesity, but say they do not have the right weight management resources. Obese or heavier adults take responsibility for weight loss, but adults who need to lose weight may lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies. These findings and others come from new research commissioned and released today by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, a project operating out of the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

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A new report from the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy’s (SKAPP) Scientists in Government project at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services concludes that policies regarding the roles and responsibilities of federal scientists need to be consistent across federal agencies and clearly communicated to the scientific workforce.

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The Department of Exercise Science in The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) announces the launch of a new program in Physical Activity in Public Health. The program, which will begin this fall, offers both a Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate and will train graduate students to integrate physical activity into the core of public health practice.

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As we approach February and Heart Health enters the minds of consumers and news outlets, please consider GW experts for commentary on issues including cardiovascular disease, prevention, interventional cardiology and heart attack treatment, renal disease, hypertension, irregular heartbeats, and information on transradial cardiac catheterization.

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Experts can comment on various topics relating to politics, American presidential history, homeland security & terrorism and international affairs.

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The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences student-run Health, Education, Active Living (HEALing) Clinic is expanding its services and will be opening an additional site to see patients in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. The new, expanded site, which will be located at the Family and Medical Counseling Service Inc., will expand GW’s HEALing Clinic’s primary care services, to serve many more medically underserved patients per week including the growing number of patients in the District receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS.

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As the debate over health reform continues, please remember that faculty members of The George Washington University (GW) Medical Center Department of Health Policy are available to comment on topics regarding health reform, including: general policy/political analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, compliance, community health centers, state health reform, affordability, finance, health technology information.

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The latest edition of The George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a majority of voters (56%) believing that the country is on the wrong track. Their top areas of concern are the economy and jobs, health care costs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the federal budget deficit.

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WASHINGTON - The Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services has received a grant from the Aetna Foundation to establish the Aetna Foundation Distinguished Lectureship in Health Policy. The Distinguished Lectureship award will annually bring to the School of Public Health leading figures in health policy for a weeklong residency and lectureship. The first lectureship will take place in the fall of 2010, with selection of the inaugural lecturer announced in the spring.

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As the United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off, GW faculty members and experts are available to comment on topics related to climate change, environmental law, sustainability and environmental studies.

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As the debate over healthcare reform continues, please remember that faculty members of The George Washington University (GW) Medical Center are available to comment on topics regarding health insurance reform, including: general policy/political analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, compliance, community health centers, state health reform, affordability, finance, health technology information.

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Years of scientific debate over the extinction of ancient species in North America have yielded many theories. However, new findings from J. Tyler Faith, GW Ph.D. candidate in the hominid paleobiology doctoral program, and Todd Surovell, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming, reveal that a mass extinction occurred in a geological instant.

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The Stupak/Pitts Amendment was added to the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), which passed the House on November 7th. The amendment bans federal funding for abortions and bars payment of federal subsidies to health insurance products sold in exchanges that cover most medically indicated abortions.

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GW Expert available to comment on the new mammography guidelines by U.S. Preventative Services Task Force.

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Dan R. Hawkins, Jr., a lecturer in health services management and leadership and health policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, is the recipient of the American Public Health Association’s Award for Excellence.

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Karen McDonnell, Ph.D., associate professor of Prevention and Community Health in GW’s School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), was awarded the 2009 ASPH/Pfizer Early Career in Public Health Teaching Award at the ASPH Annual Meeting on Saturday, Oct. 7. The award recognizes graduate public health faculty members from full ASPH-member, CEPH-accredited schools of public health who are notable for their teaching, practice and research excellence.

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The new study calls for Congressional action to cap payday lender interest rates at 36 percent.

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This one-day Summit to he held in Washington, D.C. on October 27, 2009 will highlight the major neglected infections of poverty in the United States with emphasis on their prevalence and disease burden, transmission, and their disparate impact on poor populations in the U.S. The conference is designed to lead to strategies for action to address NIoPs.

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Symposium to focus on Cancer Survivorship Research and Health Disparities.

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A new study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Estimating the Economic Gains for States as a Result of Medicaid Coverage Expansions for Adults, finds that the Medicaid expansions under consideration in Congress not only will improve the health and well-being of previously uninsured individuals and families but also will generate significant economic returns in new business activities, jobs, salaries, and wages. The report concludes that the rate of return is between two and six dollars for every dollar invested.

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The George Washington University faculty member Lisa Delpy Neirotti, associate professor of tourism and sport management, is available to comment on stories re: the 2016 Olympic Bid. She is available for on-camera interviews in the D.C.-area.

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As the debate over healthcare insurance reform continues--and President Obama prepares to address the nation on Wed, Sept. 9, please remember that faculty members of The George Washington University (GW) Medical Center are available to comment on topics regarding health insurance reform, including: general policy/political analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, compliance, community health centers, state health reform, affordability, finance, health technology information.

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A new and comprehensive analysis of the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act (HR 3200) provides a detailed examination of the major changes in existing laws made by the measure. The analysis is part of an ongoing project of The George Washington University Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, within the School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), to advance public understanding of the legal dimensions of national health reform.

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In 2009, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans - private health insurance plans that enroll Medicare beneficiaries – will be paid $11 billion, or $1,140 more per enrollee, than it would cost to care for the same number of beneficiaries under traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.

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Expanding health centers to reach an additional 20 million patients as part of national health reform would result in overall health care savings of $212 billion over the ten-year period 2010 to 2019, including federal Medicaid savings of $59 billion. The dollar value of these expected savings far exceeds the cost of the health center investment of $38.8 billion called for in the July 14 version of the House health reform bill.

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Expanding health centers to reach an additional 20 million patients as part of national health reform would result in overall health care savings of over $212 billion over the ten-year period, including federal Medicaid savings of $59 billion. The dollar value of these expected savings far exceeds the cost of the health center investment of $38.8 billion called for in the July 14 version of the House health reform bill.

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Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has named Frank J. Cilluffo, Associate Vice President for Homeland Security and Director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) at The George Washington University, as Chairman of the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Advisory Committee of the United States.

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The EagleBank Foundation and The GW Cancer Institute’s Center for the Advancement of Cancer Survivorship, Navigation and Policy (caSNP) have partnered to create and support an Annual Symposium on the state of research and clinical care in cancer survivorship. The symposium, which will take place on Thursday, October 15 at The George Washington University’s Marvin Center, will examine the needs of more than 12 million cancer survivors in the U.S. who face the challenge of re-entering the world after cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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The following faculty members of The George Washington University Medical Center are available to comment on topics regarding H1N1 and vaccines, information for consumers, public health information, and information about homeland security.

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The following faculty members from The George Washington University are available to comment on earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.

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Investment in community-based health centers could save states millions of dollars a year, according to a new study "Community Health Centers in Indiana: State Investments and Returns" conducted by faculty and staff at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

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The following faculty member of The George Washington University Medical Center is available to comment on general topics regarding health reform, as well as a response to House of Representatives Health Care Compromise.

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The latest edition of The George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a majority of voters (51%) believing that the country is on the wrong track. Their top areas of concern are the economy and jobs, health care costs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the federal budget deficit.