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New Horizons for a Healthy America: Recommendations to the New Administration

pub_New_HorizonsIn its first report, New Horizons for a Healthy America: Recommendations to the New Administration (April 2009), a component of CSPC’s Strengthening America’s Future Initiative, the Commission on U.S. Federal Leadership in Health and Medicine offers a slate of innovative recommendations for a comprehensive, Federal agency national strategy to advance health in the United States and globally.

 

Palestine/Israel Health Initiative Program Brochure

PIHI_CoverThe common quest for good health knows no borders. Crossing societies, politics and cultures, the Palestine/Israel Health Initiative (PIHI), a central component of the Advancing Trust and Reconciliation among Palestinians and Israelis initiative, (a project of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) supported by USAID), explored the potential of using health as a bridge to peace.
 

Peace Through Health: A Mapping of Cooperative Health Programs in Israel and Palestine

pub_Peace_Through_HealthThe goal of CSPC’s Palestine/Israel Health Initiative has been to foster collaboration and facilitate interaction between health and medical experts in Palestine and Israel to improve the health of people in the region as well as to promote increased cooperation and understanding. The report was prepared by Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, Director of CSPC’s Health and Medicine Program and Stephanie Safdi, M.Phil., Project Manager.

 

Health and Medicine Articles

Blumenthal, Susan J. and Denis Cortese. "Health in all Policies." Huffington Post. 31 July 2009.

Blumenthal, Susan J., Chrystan Skefos, Josh Oppenheimer, and Alissa Clarke. "Putting Prevention into Practice in Health Care Reform." Huffington Post. 18 July 2009.

Blumenthal, Susan J., Justin Mutter and Alissa Clarke. "Seven Strategies for Addressing Our Nation's Health Care Crisis." Huffington Post. 21 April 2009.