• Due to budget shortfalls, many states and school districts are implementing pay-to-play policies that allow collection of fees for participation in extracurricular activities such as school sports. The number of school districts with these policies has grown over the last decade, with some states reporting a two-fold increase. Although the extent of these policies and the amount of the fees for participation vary greatly, it seems likely that the overall effects of pay-to-pay policies may disproportionally affect low-income students.

    September 28, 2016

    Has Evidence

  • Community Justice and Public Safety
    Legal Levers for Health Equity through Housing
    Law stands as a significant influence on health equity, and an essential means of advancing a Culture of Health characterized by an equitable distribution of well-being. This project combines applied research and translation activities to answer a series of questions designed to improve our understanding and implementation of law and policy to address health inequity through housing

    September 22, 2016

    Has Evidence

  • Surprisingly little is known about how housing policy and neighborhood features impact health. This project will examine several housing policies in New York City­ that may affect health, and develop a measure to understand the real-time impact of housing policy on health outcomes.

    December 1, 2015

    Has Evidence

  • Financing, Implementation & Policy Models
    Building the Evidence for Health in All Policies
    The “Health in All Policies” (HiAP) strategy works to integrate health and equity considerations into the design and evaluation of policies and services. This project involves a data-driven investigation of local/state HiAP activities. The researchers will design and implement a national HiAP surveillance system and conduct a multiple-site case study of 10 HiAP efforts at different stages.

    November 30, 2015

    Has Evidence

  • This series of case studies identifies and describes several emerging and promising interventions that sit at the intersection of housing and health across the country. Interventions reflect a variety of approaches and models from a diversity of communities and will span both the public and private sectors.

    November 30, 2015

    Has Evidence

  • Nutrition and Physical Activity
    Food Pantry Packages and Diabetes Control
    This study examines whether a community intervention monitoring glucose and providing diabetes appropriate food can improve health and reduce health care utilization. It builds on Feeding America’s Intervention Trial for Health-Diabetes Mellitus (FAITH-DM) study with a new follow-up round of data collection and new data analyses.

    November 29, 2015

  • This study looks at the effects of federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and minimum wage policies during a mother’s pregnancy and childhood on parental and child health outcomes using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1984-present).

    November 27, 2015

    Has Evidence