By Jonathan Todd, PhD, MSPH – Senior Research Associate Happy March, everyone!My name is Jonathan Todd, and I’m an infectious disease epidemiologist at OCHIN. I’m excited to share an update about ongoing infectious disease studies at OCHIN, and give a sneak peek into our planned future collaborations. We are scratching the surface in the ever-expanding fieldRead more
Written by Bren Cole (Fenway Health), Anna Templeton (OCHIN), and Tiffany Prescott (OCHIN) Everyone loves a good superhero – and for National Health Center Week 2018 we enthusiastically join our members in “Celebrating Health Centers: Home of America’s Health Care Heroes”. Every day, community health centers (CHCs) welcome and care for 27 million Americans fromRead more
ADVANCE meets its goals around engagement and dissemination via coordinated efforts from the ADVANCE Data Coordinating Center OCHIN, Inc. One method for dissemination is the OCHIN Grand Rounds series, which kicked off its second season this past November with Dr. Erika Cottrell presenting Adoption of EHR Tools for Collecting and Acting on Social Determinants ofRead more
Hello fellow health news aficionados! Welcome to the Community Health Roundup, a place where you can have your news and read it too. This week, I am bringing you the choicest articles from around the internet including articles on the backlash over blood pressure guidelines, how economic inequality is tied to health inequality, an article about cancerRead more
Hello all and welcome to another installment of Community Health Round Up! This week I decided to post a day early because I lassoed so many articles I was ecstatic about, I knew I needed to get them out as soon as possible (or ASAP as some might say). So what did I find? WellRead more
Welcome back to the Community Health Round-Up: your soon to be favorite source for health news (and occasionally health history). This week I cast my net far and wide and the bounty I collected is one I can’t wait to share with you. Today we are going to be examining the impact of phone callsRead more
Written by Heather Angier, Miguel Marino, and Jennifer DeVoe This article originally appeared on Community Research Laboratory and is being reprinted with the authors’ permission. A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine that provided findings about the current state of health reform in the United States did not include results from communityRead more
