Summer 2024

Sun Safety

A reminder to keep yourself safe and healthy in the sun during the summer. Sunlight is essential for your body to produce vitamin D. But, too much of it can cause harmful effects to your skin and eyes. Excessive exposure to ultraviolet (U.V.) light causes most skin cancers. It can also lead to cataracts and eye cancer.

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Opportunity for Investigators

Evidence-Based Guidance

To advance racial equity in health systems and policy research

Built around ten steps that occur across the research lifecycle, this Roadmap may be used as a practical discussion guide to help broaden your team’s usual approaches to research and be more intentional about how you approach research culture change.

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REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTS

Food, Nutrition and Health

Deadline: Monday, July 29

Health Affairs' April 2025 issue will focus on the many ways that food intersects with health and nutrition

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Funding Opportunities

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The REACH team continually seeks avenues of support for the important work of its partner organizations.

Community Resources

Summer Break with Hip Hop Public Health

Hip Hop Public Health creates research-based educational resources by harnessing the power of music and culture to improve health in communities that are underserved.

School may be out right now, but the Learning Studio offers hundreds of free resources to engage, educate, and entertain kids K-12. If you're a parent, caregiver, summer school teacher, camp counselor, community educator, or health professional, this space is for you.

Registration for the August and October cohorts are open limited spots are available!

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