Taking public health policy models upstream

Mathematical Models of Public Health Policy

Obesity: From Public Health to Public Policy

Marlene Schwartz, PhD, is a senior research scientist in Psychology and the School of Public Health as well as Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. Dr. Schwartz received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale, where she studied under renowned obesity expert Kelly Brownell. Prior to her current academic appointments, she served as the Co-Director of the Yal...

Epidemiology, Public Health, and Public Policy

I left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more than 4 years ago to go to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). RWJF had gone through a time of substantial rethinking about its role in society and come to the conclusion that the focus should not be grant-making; it should be creating social change for health. This could just as easily be said about public health — creating...

Identification of Public Policy Implementation Barriers (Health System Reform Plan)

Background & Aims of the Study: One of the main concerns of policymakers is the establishment of health equity and access to health services. Health system reform plan is one of the most important tools of policy makers in the health system. The health system, as any other plan has had some problems during implementation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the obstacles to the ...

‘Tis in our nature: taking the human-cannabis relationship seriously in health science and public policy

To find clearheaded scientific perspective on cannabis use through the prevailing thick smokescreen requires recognizing just what sort of smoke obscures our better understanding. In the United States, in large part, the smokescreen is made up of culture war-charged political rhetoric and obstructionism from those in positions of authority setting up a prejudicial ideological framing for cannab...