Prevent Child Abuse Georgia has developed an interactive map of resources available to support Georgia’s families, featuring information about more than 3,000 organizations and agencies that serve children and families across the state, and allowing users to search by location to make it easier to find the resources closest to them.
The Contract-for-Deed (CFD) home “sale,” a predatory financing practice with a notorious urban history, has reemerged in predominantly black neighborhoods 30 years after federal laws were created to end the practice, according to research by Georgia State University urban policy expert Dan Immergluck.
The kinds of neighborhoods children live in could influence their mental health, according to a recent study by researchers from the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.
Georgia State has signed a licensing deal with Pinnacle Bio, a biotechnology firm that specializes in developing and marketing technologies to diagnose infectious diseases, to market a point-of-care influenza diagnostic developed by Suri Iyer, professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Diagnostics & Therapeutics.
Vincent La Terza, assistant vice president and senior licensing agent at Georgia State University since 2017, has been named associate vice president of research and director of technology transfer and commercialization at Georgia State.
Older adults can reduce early level physical disability by volunteering 100 hours per year, which is about two hours per week, according to a recent study.
Georgia State University will offer a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program to meet the growing need for public health professionals with advanced training and preparation for positions in leadership, applied research and other practice-based roles.
Widowed older adults can reduce the loneliness that results from the death of a spouse by volunteering 100 hours per year, which is about two hours per week, according to a recent study.
Access to quality, affordable housing is critical for supporting good health. For individuals and families with tight budgets, high housing costs can lead to tough choices between making rent and going to the doctor, between keeping the lights on and buying healthy food, or even between being part of a community or becoming socially isolated.
Georgia State University’s Gerontology Institute has received $1.6 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Georgia State Survey Agency for a three-year training and development project to improve the state’s nursing homes.
