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Institute for Health Policy and Practice Keeps New Hampshire Healthy

To analyze the data at the root of high-quality health care and inform policy and practice, the state of New Hampshire often turns to UNH’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Read More

Recent Stories

  • UNH alumna Erica Tamposi '14 making the film Extended Release
    - Art as a Weapon
    New Hampshire is dealing with a public health crisis of epic proportion. In 2014, 326 people died from drug overdoses, due in part to a spike in heroin and opioid use. The... Read More
  • Participants of Raymond Youth Coalition
    - Partners on Prevention
    This is the second article in our series exploring how UNH alumni, faculty and students are tackling the heroin and opioid epidemic that has hit New Hampshire and many other... Read More
  • John Eldredge
    - A Sober Story
    This is the third article in our series exploring how UNH alumni, faculty and students are tackling the heroin and opioid epidemic that has hit New Hampshire and many other parts... Read More
  • Bradley and Shannon Calabro of Amano Mobile Grocery Stores
    - Making Food Deserts History
    It’s coming up on a year since the annual Social Venture Innovation Challenge put hard cash into the hands of budding entrepreneurs, and we thought we'd check in with a couple of... Read More
  • UNH Occupations Therapy
    - Meeting Clients Where They Are
    The family came to Outside the Lines, the pediatric occupational therapy practice started by Taylor Prendergast Moore ’07, ‘08G, seeking assistance. Their young son struggled with... Read More
  • Job Heintz '90 - UNH
    - Reaching the Unreachable
    When Job Heintz ’90 looks back on his time at UNH, one lesson in particular stands out. He had walked onto the varsity hockey team after a successful high school career, with... Read More
  • UNH class on eating local foods
    - Eating Locally One Class at a Time
    Kelly Cullen, associate professor of natural resources and the environment, starts her class with terrifying statistics and ends it with hope. In the course Being a Locavore,... Read More
  • UNH alumna Christine Cornell Ieronimo
    - A Thirst for Knowledge
    Christine Cornell Ieronimo ’90 never thought she’d write a children’s book, “Not in a million years,” she laughs. She also never imagined that one day she would adopt a child from... Read More
  • David Finkelhor
    - UNH Expert Weighs In On Duggar Drama
    David Finkelhor, director of the UNH Crimes Against Children Research Center When news broke that the Duggar family — known for their TLC show "19 Kids and Counting" as well as... Read More
  • UNH exercise scientist Summer Cook
    - Strong Muscles, Fleet Feet
    Exercise scientist Summer Cook At the heart of exercise scientist Summer Cook’s research lies a deceptively simple question: What causes people to get stronger? But between her... Read More