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Center for evaluation and applied research - see schedule o.the center for evaluation and applied research (cear) partners with community organizations, health departments, philanthropic organizations, healthcare providers and other researchers to 1) plan, assess and strengthen programs focused on health and well-being; 2) incorporate community perspectives into program development, program assessment and decision-making; and 3) build and disseminate evidence on strategies to improve healthcare and related services to address The structural, social, economic and environmental factors that impact health, including racism and other inequities. Cear also provides research and evaluation training and technical assistance to organizations and institutions with The aim of building internalcapacity to self-assess their work, better document accomplishments, improve programs, and respond to community needs. Cear researchers have expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as participatory research methods, including public deliberation. Cear accomplishments in 2023 include implementation of approximately 30 research, evaluation and technical assistance projects; completion of seven research and evaluation reports for project partners; submission of three peer reviewed manuscripts, two of which have been published to date; and five presentations at two professional public health conferences. Cear additionally developed two publicly available infographics for healthy start programs in The bronx and queens for which cear was an independent evaluator and published a nyam report on race and ethnicity data collection in healthcare settings as part of a collaboration with nyu's grossman school of Medicine. The infographics and report are available on The nyam wesbite.below are several examples of 2023 cear projects:- evaluation services for workwell nyc, a worksite wellness initiative of The mayor's office of labor relations, available to all employees of nyc municipal agencies. Working in collaboration with workwell nyc staff, cear supports evaluation and refinement of The program through surveys, focus groups, and technical assistance to increase staff capacity regarding program evaluation and The application of evaluation findings. - evaluation of exhale, a respite initiative created to support The development and implementation of innovative respite opportunities for caregivers of older adults. Funded by The ralph c. wilson, jr. foundation, The health foundation for western & central New York and The ann arbor area community foundationand working in collaboration with The philanthropic initiativethe program is focused on western New York state and washtenaw county, Michigan. Cear is evaluating The overall initiative and provides ongoing evaluation support to exhale grantees, working collaboratively with stakeholders to meet The evolving needs and priorities of The program.- evaluation of The New York city housing authority (nycha) family self- sufficiency (fss) program. Funded by The us department of housing and urban development (hud), fss is an asset-building, rent-incentive program for section 8 residents that aims to increase economic security in low-income households through education, job training and employment support. In 2023, nycha and The public housing community fund selected cear to conduct a two-year, mixed-methods evaluation with both process and outcome components, including an assessment of barriers to and facilitators of program implementation, participant engagement and retention, perceived quality of programming and services, and educational and economic program outcomes. Cear is also conducting landscape analysis focused on implementation strategies among other hud-funded fss programs around The country. Nycha, The largest public housing authority in The us, aims to use results from The evaluation and landscape analysis to improve and adapt their fss program to reach more section 8 residents, increase retention, and improve services and outcomes for program participants.

The Academy library - see schedule o.the Academy Academy library began operations in january 1847, as part of The newly established New York Academy of Medicine. In 1878 The library opened to The public, as it remains today. In The late 19th century, The library began collecting rare and historical works in Medicine. Today The collections comprise over a million items: over 550,000 volumes of books and journals, including a rare book collection of approximately 32,000 volumes; 275,000 portraits and illustrations; approximately 400,000 pamphlets; and over 1,800 linear feet of manuscripts and archives. In 2012, The library restructured as an historical medical library. The library retains The medical literature it acquired over 175 years of service, and now focuses its collecting on rare and historical works in Medicine and public health, as well as historical literature in those areas. It serves researchers with materials from our collections; supports two research fellowships, The audrey and william h. helfand fellowship in The history of Medicine and public health, and The paul klemperer fellowship in The history of Medicine; provides visitors and classes with tours of The collections and The historic building; mounts historical programs; and shares its insights through social media and The library blog. The library's 2023 programming continued existing patterns and began New ones. We held The "celebration of The library" on november 29, welcoming friends and colleagues to The Academy. Our event centered on commemorating The aids epidemic: we displayed a panel of The aids quilt as well as aids-related items from The collection, and had a presentation from dr. david vlahov, who headed nyam's center for urban epidemiological studies during The epidemic. Previous lecture series continued with The annual bibliography week lecture on january 28: mary fissell speaking on The audiences for The 17th-century sex and reproduction manual, aristotle's masterpiece; and, in collaboration with The heberden society of weill cornell Medicine: wangui muigai on "infant mortality, race, and The american roots of a health inequality," january 18, and ayah nuriddin on "seed and soil: black eugenic thought in The nineteenth and twentieth centuries," november 7. We mounted "color our collections" in The first week of february, putting up coloring books from 92 libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions from around The world. The library's own coloring book was focused on "climate and health," reflecting The priorities of The Academy's New president. On june 13 we participated in The annual museum mile festival on fifth avenue, and on october 22, in open house New York, offering tours of The Academy building in connection with The city-wide architectural event. We offered ten drop-in theme-based presentations of The collections on The first monday of each month at noon. The library's blog, "books, health, and history," posted fifteen articles in 2023, including posts on student class visits to The library and on The aids quilt. New ventures included The november 2 screening of "de humani corporis fabrica," a 2022 documentary film that investigated life and work in five french hospitals. With nyam's center for healthy aging we co-presented "nat, norcs, and New York: naturally occurring retirement communities in nyc through The lens and life of nat yalowitz," on may 22.we were honored to have seven of The library's books on cookery, dated 1581 to 1766, featured in The bard graduate center gallery exhibit, "staging The table in europe, 15001800," on display from february 17 through july 9. At The end of 2023, The library achieved two milestones in its digitization efforts. We made final corrections to an earlier project, recipes and remedies, digitizing eleven english-language cookbooks from The 17th to The 19th centuries. We completed our work on a multi-year joint project with gale/cengage, disabilties and society, seventeenth to twentieth century, digitizing several thousand items from The collections.

Community partnerships and policy solutions - see schedule o.the center for community partnerships and policy solutions (cpps) partners with residents, community leaders, and decision-makers to identify innovative policy solutions. We actively work with our partners to align and shape The actions of government and industry to serve The community better, recognize and amplify its assets, and transform The places where we live, work, play, and learn into environments that promote health for all. As a trusted convener and facilitator, we work to honor and amplify The voices of people with lived experiences of health inequities and bridge connections between communities, government, The healthcare system, and other stakeholders. We also develop and implement award-winning, place-based programs and conduct research to inform specific policy changes. These initiatives address some of The most critical health equity issues of our time.in 2023, cpps initiated a collaboration with The New York city department of health and mental hygiene in The coalition to end racism in clinical algorithms (cerca). Through this multi-year initiative, cpps is partnering with safety-net hospitals across The city to examine The impact of removing patient race from clinical algorithms on patient outcomes. Cpps also continued and extended ongoing research and programming partnerships including: 1) The east harlem action collaborative, a community group that engages in advocacy and awareness campaigns to improve child and family health in east harlem; 2) The mentoring program, through which, nyam provides funding to mentors across nyc to support their provision of mentoring services to youth in vulnerable contexts, and nyam measures The impact of these services; 3) The age-friendly go local program, through which cpps partners with The health foundation for western and central New York to administer a grant program and provide technical assistance to grassroots organizations developing age-friendly communities; 4) The age-friendly public health systems initiative evaluation, in which cpps continues its evaluation of national, state, and local-level efforts in its third phase to support capacity building for public health and The improvement of The health and well-being of older adults; and 5) foundation funded research on The early childhood workforce.

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