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Meet the Projects Selected to Make our Rankings Even Better!
Earlier this year we solicited innovative research proposals for County Health Rankings Research Grants. These grants serve an important role in strengthening our Rankings methods and increasing their strategic use and impacts. Now we’re excited to share the projects selected for funding through this competitive process:
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Meet the winner of CHR&R’s 2025 data viz challenge
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first data viz challenge! We received outstanding submissions and are excited to spotlight the winning visual.
Meeting the Moment: From data to impact
This webinar will explore the power of data in advocating for community conditions that shape health.
Meeting the moment: Navigating a quickly changing public health landscape
This webinar will examine strategies to meet public health challenges in the context of recent policy shifts and government restructuring.
Meeting the moment: Philanthropy advancing the greater good
This webinar explores how funders are approaching public health grantmaking in a rapidly shifting landscape.
Messaging equity and justice for better health
How do we frame conversations and convey messages that will create equity champions? Join us and our special guests from FrameWorks Institute for a workshop webinar on framing equity and justice messaging.
Missouri Communities Move to Action to Improve Health
Working together is at the heart of making meaningful change in a community. Building Communities for Better Health (BCBH)—a three-year grant-funded program sponsored through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services—kicked off in 2018 with the goal of empowering communities to implement key policy, systems, and environmental change approaches. The program focuses on reducing risk...
Motivating Communities to Improve the Health of Their Populations
Could Incentives Prompt Communities to Implement Policies Shown to Improve Health?
The September 2010 edition of Preventing Chronic Disease—a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—features a set of essays and articles examining different ways to encourage communities to adopt policies that have been shown to improve health.
Moving Data to Action and the NAACHO Annual Conference
On July 10, 2013, hundreds of local public health officials convened in Dallas for the 2013 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Conference. Themed, “Public Health by the Numbers. Our Story. Our Time. Our Future,” this year the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program was well represented. Many attendees and presenters at the...
NACo President Lenny Eliason on 2012 Rankings and Importance of County Leadership
National Association of Counties (NACo) President Lenny Eliason comments on the release of the 2012 County Health Rankings and the opportunity for county officials to drive efforts to create healthier places for residents to live, learn, work and play. His comments are printed in full below (from the NACo blog).