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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

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07/17/2014

... Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard ...

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Data is Needed to Address Worldwide Women's Issues

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12/16/2014

... and to promote a joint effort to gather more data on their health , workplace roles, childbirth and other facets of their ... the Democrats' 2016 presidential nominee were she to run, has long championed...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

The CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg ... which will be conducted in partnership with the World Health Organization, will be used to enhance participating ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... Genomics and Informatics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein ...

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Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

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04/13/2015

... of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford Foundation has a keen interest in empowering women by expanding ... grant for a project that addresses the reproductive health needs of young, out-of-school women in...

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Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

... announced today that The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF) has awarded the institution $10 million to support its ... projects and game-changing discoveries to improve human health . We are grateful to have Bill...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition

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04/12/2016

... the ideal that a team from the College of William and Mary has made its mission to uphold. The College’s team won the ... about the United States’ long-term fiscal and economic health in a competitive and...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American Communities

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06/23/2016

... Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it has received a $480,000 grant from the NoVo Foundation Fund ... local food systems in order to better address community health issues, build the local...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars

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06/30/2016

... Announces 2016 Scholars The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2016 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, ... great promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health . The selected Scholars will...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Launches New CT Scanner Initiative for Rural Hospitals

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10/28/2016

... in the United States and around the world in the areas of health , education, human services, and place-based ... advance this mission, the trust's Rural Healthcare Program has launched the CT Scanner...

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Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights

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04/19/2017

... Physicians for Human Rights Physicians for Human Rights has announced an $8 million challenge grant from the Open ... investments in new technology and to expand its network of health professionals and human...

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New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change

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09/12/2017

... of the atmosphere is the prime target for improving the health of our planet. One of the best ways to do that is ... the soil that grows our food. The scientific community has been actively debating whether...

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Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

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09/19/2017

... for brain injury before they even step on the field. Health reporter Erin Billups has the story. 16-year-old Scott West got a concussion ...

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Education

Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... the old adage, “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In all seriousness, the reproductive health of girls and women around the world is at stake...

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City Signs Exclusive Deal With Pharmaceutical Firm for Anti-Overdose Drug

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10/10/2017

... medication into the hands of first responders. The city has allocated about $7.836 million through various agencies ... the drug naloxone this year, while the state Department of Health will kick in $7 million...

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Trinity Church Appoints Neill Coleman as New Chief Philanthropy Officer

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05/25/2018

... Coleman as New Chief Philanthropy Officer Trinity Church has a new chief philanthropy officer. Neill Coleman will lead ... Foundation as well as serving in the federal Department of Health and Human Services...

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Four Early Career Researchers Selected for 2019 William T. Grant Scholars Program

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05/15/2019

... of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within the past seven years. To date, the program has sponsored more than 185 talented...

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