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Health Impact Project Provides Funding to Promote Health in Southern and Appalachian States
7 planning grants awarded to examine how factors like housing and education affect well-being
February 24, 2016 – Health Impact Project
WASHINGTON—The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, announced grants today to fund projects in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Each grantee will develop an evidence-based action plan for addressing social, economic, and environmental factors (such as housing, education, and community development) that lead to disparities in health outcomes—known as health inequities…