Graduate Education: Funding, Outcomes, and Questions About the PhD
Graduate education produces the next generation of scholars and professionals, but the system has significant dysfunctions that affect student wellbei...
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Public Health Workforce Reductions: What Losing Capacity Means for Communities
Public health agencies at federal, state, and local levels have faced workforce reductions. The evidence on public health workforce capacity and its c...
Cognitive Dissonance: Why We Rationalize More Than We Think
Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, that we are motivated to resolve inconsistency between our beliefs and our behavior, explains a rem...
Crisis Communication for Nonprofits: Protecting Mission in Difficult Moments
Every organization faces crises. How nonprofits communicate during them shapes trust, donor confidence, and long-term organizational viability....
Overdose Deaths in the United States: Research on Trends, Causes, and Response
Drug overdose deaths have reached historic levels in the United States. Research on what is driving the crisis and what intervention approaches show t...
Teaching Emotional Intelligence in the College Classroom
Emotional intelligence is no longer a soft skill. It is a core professional competency, and one that can be taught, practiced, and assessed with appro...
Depression in Primary Care: The Case for Integrated Behavioral Health
Most people who receive mental health treatment receive it in primary care settings, often inadequately. Integrating behavioral health into primary c...
Rural Healthcare Access: The Geography of Medical Inequality
Rural Americans face shorter life expectancy, higher rates of chronic disease, and dramatically fewer healthcare providers than their urban counterpar...
Positive Aging: Psychology of Later Life and What the Research Shows
Aging is often framed as decline. Psychological research on positive aging reveals a more complex and in some respects more hopeful picture....
Disability Rights and the Architecture of Inclusion
The Americans with Disabilities Act was a landmark achievement. What it changed, what it didn't, and what genuine inclusion of disabled people in...