ICH Receives Community Transformation Award

ICH has been honored with a 2011 Community Transformation Award from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Click here for more information on ICH’s work and the award!

Somerville Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities

As part of ICH’s ongoing technical assistance, collaboration and evaluation efforts with the Shape up Somerville initiative (SUS), with the support of the City of Somerville and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Kids and Healthy Communities (HKHC) grant, ICH is working closely with the SUS director to develop a 10 year Shape Up Somerville […]

Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy (MATP) – Youth First Project

Teen pregnancy rates in Massachusetts are lower these days than in the past, but there is still more that can be done to reduce them. For over ten years, the Institute for Community Health (ICH) has worked in partnership with the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy, a non-profit organization that supports communities seeking evidence-based solutions to […]

Congratulations to ICH Staff Members!

ICH Research Associate Susan Choi has been awarded her PhD in Social Psychology by Harvard University for her dissertation entitled: “Choosing” to Be Unhealthy? How People Think About Choice, Unhealthy Behaviors, and Health Disparities”. And, Dr. Lisa Arsenault, ICH Epidemiologist, has received her Harvard faculty appointment as an Instructor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical […]

Safety Net Infrastructure Initiative

Safety Net health centers are a critical component of the health care system and have the potential to benefit greatly from participation in research and translation of evidence into practice. This is especially true following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the transformation of primary care systems. However, providers in community health centers […]

Sharing Lessons Learned in Cambridge’s Fight Against Overdoses

The OPEN evaluation team presented at the state-wide MassCALL2 Evaluation Meeting in April. As part of the ongoing evaluation of the Cambridge Opioid Overdose project, which is aimed at reducing fatal and nonfatal opioid-related overdose in Cambridge, the team at ICH has collected and monitored local DAWN data, ambulance data and death certificate data. The presentation […]