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Friday, May 24, 2013
»Alejandro Portes mentioned in The Miami Herald
Alejandro Portes (2006 Awardee) was quoted and mentioned in a Miami Herald article, "Sociologist: Income levels of Mariel migrants lower than earlier Cuban exiles", May 24, 2013. 

Source: The Miami Herald

Friday, May 24, 2013
»Jens Ludwig mentioned in Huffington Post and Chicago Magazine
Jens Ludwig (2009 Awardee) was recently mentioned in both The Huffington Post and Chicago Magazine for his research with Philip Cook (2002 Awardee) on gun violence among youth in Chicago, which was also cited previously in a Bloomberg Businessweek article. The Huffington Post article, titled "Gun Violence Cost: Chicago Killings Cost $2.5 Billion A Year -- $2,500 Per Household -- According To Analysis", and the Chicago Magazine article, "Why Is So Much of Chicago a Commercial Desert?", were both posted on May 23, 2013. 

Source: Huffington Post / Chicago Magazine

Thursday, May 23, 2013
»David Hemenway published in The New England Journal of Medicine
David Hemenway (1997 Awardee) has co-authored an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, "Public Health Approach to the Prevention of Gun Violence" (2013; 368:2033-2035).

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
»Howard Markel appointed Editor-in-Chief of The Milbank Quarterly
Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of The Milbank Quarterly on October 1, 2013.

Dr. Markel, whose project for his Investigator Award was related to the 1918 influenza pandemic is described in the press release as, "an internationally known authority on the social history of epidemics and quarantine, Dr. Markel leads a research team at the University of Michigan investigating the effectiveness of public health interventions during influenza pandemics from 1918 to the present. As a result of this work, he advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on policy for preventing and containing current outbreaks of that disease. Dr. Markel was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Dr. Markel is deeply honored with the appointment and states, "I look forward to the challenge of using electronic and print media to expand the audiences for the achievements of this great foundation and the stellar work of our colleagues and contributors."

Milbank Memorial Fund press release

Source: National Program Office

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
»David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz on Bill Moyers & Company Show
David Rosner (2002 Awardee) and Gerald Markowitz (2002 Awardee) discussed lead poisoning in children and thwarted efforts to hold the lead industry accountable on the Bill Moyers & Company Show, May 17, 2013. 

Source: Moyers & Company

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
»Stephen Hinshaw mentioned in Scientific American article
Stephen Hinshaw (2008 Awardee) was mentioned in a Scientific American article, "Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood", May 20, 2013.

Source: Scientific American

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
»Jens Ludwig and Greg Duncan published in the American Economic Review
Jens Ludwig and Greg Duncan (2009 Awardees) have published "Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity" in this month's American Economic Review.  

In the study the Investigators "examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment. This experiment offered to some public-housing families but not to others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods."  They find that "despite the somewhat mixed pattern of impacts on traditional behavioral outcomes, MTO moves substantially improve adult subjective well-being."

This publication comes out of their Investigator Award Project, "Neighborhood Effects on Health" which focuses on examining the way changing neighborhoods can affect health and well-being.

Source: National Program Office