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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What will public health in the U.S. look like in 2030? To explore this question and identify implications for today's strategies, the Kresge Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have awarded the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) funding to develop scenarios describing expectable, challenging, and visionary futures of public health in the U.S. Local, state, and national organizations and leaders in...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Disparities Reducing Advances Project (DRA Project) led by the Institute for Alternative Futures has released the State of the Health Equity Movement, 2011 Update. This set of reports brings attention to the often unnoticed but growing trend of policy decisions, administrative actions, and community efforts seeking health equity -- fair access to health resources and a fair distribution of health outcomes. In the United...

ALEXANDRIA,Va., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Institute for Alternative Futures has released a new study today that identifies how community health centers (CHCs) are reaching beyond clinical care to shape the health of their patients by changing community conditions. In addition to excellent care for the patient, the aims of health care are expanding to include the improvement of a broader population's health. CHCs have for decades been reaching beyond clinical...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By 2025, patient-doctor relationships and health care delivery will look radically different than they do today, according to the Institute for Alternative Futures. In the Institute's new report Primary Care 2025: A Scenario Exploration, available here, the nationally recognized futurists give readers a preview of how Americans could select, pay for and receive primary care. Working with more than 50 national health care leaders,...

WASHINGTON, April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two years after the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA) gave FDA new powers to require Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for higher risk drugs and biologics, a new report concludes that an optimal future for REMS is possible if the agency adopts a systems approach when designing REMS programs and takes advantage of new technologies -- from electronic medical records to genetic testing -- that are changing...