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- Asthma Education Program: includes curriculum development for public elementary schools.
- Coordinated School Health Programs to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: helps schools develop and implement programs targeting three risk factors: physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use.
- Junior Fellows: introduces urban middle school students to current issues in health, science, medicine and medical research and engages them in conducting independent research in these areas. Collaboration with Academy library.
- Safety Makes Sense: An educational initiative in partnership with The Board of Education of the City of New York, to prevent unintentional injuries in and around the school environment. Four booklets available for school/home safety, and training workshops are conducted for interdisciplinary teams of public elementary and middle school teachers and other school personnel.
- Skin Health Education Program: for students in the New York City public schools grades Kindergarten through twelve. In collaboration with the Board of Education of the City of New York. The curriculum, "Looking Good, Being Healthy," teaches about skin care, sun safety, skin disease, acne, and the effect of lifestyle and behavior on the skin. (Four booklets available on “The wonders of Skin,” each for different grade levels).
- Staff Development: Health education training for elementary, middle and high school personnel that focuses on how to address health risk behaviors with students.
- Health Matters: Health care information and resources for drug-users in the five boroughs (Download PDF file)
- The Manual for Primary Care Providers: Effectively Caring for Active Substance Users: Helps doctors to address all aspects of substance user care
- Survival Guide
The Survival Guide provides information on health and social supports for substance users in Harlem. Specifically, the guide aims to improve substance users' access to community-based services, such as substance abuse treatment, soup kitchens, and mental health services. For more information on the guide or to order a copy please contact Sara Sisco at ssisco@nyam.org
- Toward a Comprehensive Plan for Syringe Exchange in New York City: A needs assessment for syringe exchange programs, as well as policy recommendations. (Download PDF).
- Web-based Resource Guide
The resource guide lists available services within the Harlem community including drug treatment, employment, housing, food pantries, and domestic violence services. (http://www.nyam.org/initiatives/cues-resource.shtml)
Training for Researchers:
- Teaching and training in epidemiologic methods allows CUES to stay on the cutting edge, enhance its role as a scientific leader, and provide a service to the broader New York community as well as researchers in health. CUES teaching and training consists of services for researchers in-house and within partner institutions. CUES teaching and training also includes regular seminars to discuss and disseminate collaborative research, journal clubs to review, critique, and discuss new articles of interest from epidemiologic, sociologic, biologic, and related literature, an urban epidemiology research fellowship to train top young researchers in the latest epidemiologic methods and collaborative research projects, and explorations into new methods to develop and discover new levels for understanding urban health problems. Contact Dr. Sandro Galea, at sgalea@nyam.org for more information.
