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Gayle Shipp Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Equity Scholars for Action Grant
Gayle Shipp, PhD, RD, assistant professor in the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Rober...
If Food is Medicine, Data Helps Determine the Dosage
If researchers from Michigan State University have their way, the old adage, “You are what you eat” will become, “You are what you know.”
“Knowledge ...
New research: 1 in 5 U.S. Adults Lost to Suicide Had Recent Jail Experience
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A newly published stud...
Improving Michigan Child and Family Outcomes
The Michigan State University Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Initiative and the Flint Odyssey House have been awarded a total of $100,000...
MSU Researchers Create a New Health Equity Evaluation Tool for Genesee County and the City of Flint
Community-based organizations, nonprofits, policymakers and local residents will benefit from the first Health Equity Report Card, or HERC, for Genese...
Key Mental Health Services Could Reduce Jail Time
Counties could save money and keep more people out of jail by improving access to community-based mental health and substance use disorder services, a...
Enrollment Open: Flint Makes History with Launch of Rx Kids
On January 10, 2024, at 10 am, City of Flint pregnant moms and newborns started enrolling in Rx Kids, the first citywide maternal and infant cash pres...
MSU, Henry Ford Health, Corewell Health Announce $19M Maternal Health Research Center
A new statewide center led by researchers at Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences and Corewell Health will study ways to redu...
Michigan as a Model to Address Infant Poverty
New Rx Kids Program Funded by $16.5M in State Budget
Rx Kids, the nation’s first citywide prenatal and infant cash allowance program, receives approv...
$500,000 Grant to Support Moms and Babies in Flint
Michigan State University receives 1 of 42 grants awarded from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. $500,000 will support Flint Rx Kids, the first city...
Flint Lead Free Report Highlights $202 Million in Economic Benefits
The 2023 Flint Lead Free report captures city-wide lead elimination efforts. Building upon previous years (2017 and 2021), this report features broad ...
Rx Kids Program Aims to Tackle Poverty to Improve the Health of City of Flint Moms and Babies
Thanks to an intended $15 million “challenge” grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint moms and babies could soon benefit from an innovat...
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