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News Archive
Welcome to our News Archive
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Providers Can Brush Up on Oral Health Literacy with New Toolkit
2021
The California Oral Health Literacy Toolkit is now available. The five digital resources in the toolkit are designed to help oral healthcare providers understand and use health literacy best...
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Community Feedback Strengthens Health Information
2017
HRA’s research team has been working to increase awareness of and screening rates for colorectal cancer among older adults of South Asian descent. As part of this project, led by Dr. Susan L. Ivey,...
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HRA Helps Alameda County Combat Asthma
2017
HRA is working with Alameda County to reduce childhood asthma, supported by an innovative funding model called Pay for Success.
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Improving STD Screening Rates
Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection, which mostly affects young adults. Chlamydia usually has no symptoms, so people often don't know they have it. All sexually active women younger...
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Oral Health Literacy Project
2021
HRA has partnered with the California Department of Public Health's Office of Oral Health on a multiyear, multimodal project to assess the health literacy of oral healthcare providers in the state...
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Oral Health Project Featured in Special Report
2016
Oral health intervention work by HRA faculty Dr. Karen Sokal-Gutierrez and Dr. Susan Ivey is featured in a new special report produced by Scientific American.
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In Memoriam: Howard Barkan MPH ’79, DrPH ’80
2016
Health Research for Action lost a valued colleague this summer, when longtime consultant Dr. Howard Barkan died suddenly. Read more about his life and work here.
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Professor Neuhauser appointed Visiting Professor at Nanjing Youdian University
2015
(October 2015) HRA's Co-PI, Professor Linda Neuhauser, was appointed Visiting Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanjing Youdian University in Nanjing, China. This appointment will...
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China Worker Wellness Project partners visit from Changzhou, China
2015
January 22: Colleagues from the Changzhou (China) Department of Health and Family Planning visited HRA to discuss the China Worker Wellness Project. HRA is partnering with the City of Changzhou to...
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The First Bay Area Korean Needs Assessment
2014
HRA is collaborating with the Korean Community Center of the East Bay (KCCEB) to conduct the first major Korean community assessment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Researchers will survey 400 Koreans...