Using Project Evaluation to Build Capacity for Integrated Health Care at Local Levels

Climate Change Visualization: Using 3D Imagery of Local Places to Build Capacity and Inform Policy

Linking global science to locally significant places with visioning processes and visualizations represents a powerful tool for decision-making in the context of climate change responses. The Local Climate Change Visioning Project in British Columbia, Canada, builds on recent advances in backcasting and scenario-building to bridge the divide between predictive, quantitative approaches and narra...

An integrated program to train local health care providers to meet post-disaster mental health needs.

This paper describes a post-disaster mental health training program developed by the International Section of the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and delivered in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan struck the country in September 2004. This train-the-trainer program used an integrated community health model to help local health care providers develop the necessary s...

Building integrated pathways to independence for diverse biomedical researchers: Project Pathways, the BUILD program at Xavier University of Louisiana

Background and purpose Xavier University of Louisiana is a historically Black and Catholic university that is nationally recognized for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula. Approximately 73% of Xavier's students are African American, and about 77% major in the biomedical sciences. Xavier is a national leader in the number of STEM majors who go on to receive M.D...

Regional Data Standards Build Capacity for Health Departments.

The origins of our state and local health departments, like most other modern administrative institutions, refl ect the wisdom and need of the times. Most state and local health departments created in the late 19th century rapidly broadened their authority to protect and promote the health of people in the U.S. in response to the public health needs of the moment. Tobey (1947) characterized tho...

Analytics build capacity for health departments combatting rodent infestations.