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To help public health leaders effectively communicate the value of public health to potential partners and decision makers in other sectors, the de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society Program have launched PHRASES.

Dan Buettner explains what we can learn from communities where people live the longest.

Connecticut’s Office of Early Childhood unveiled a new program to support children and their parents.

Science writer Carl Zimmer explains CRISPR and what our new understanding of genetics means for fighting disease.

Science is learning more about the health benefits of going outside — at a time when access to wild spaces is ever-more unequal.

The Center for Environmental Health’s Michael Dorsey discusses how harmful chemicals cut racial and socioeconomic lines, and what can be done.

IDEAS editor-in-chief Corby Kummer describes efforts to reduce sodium in frozen pizza portions. His piece appears in the New York Times Magazine.

With the knowledge we have now, up to half of all cancers can be prevented.

This report offers a deep dive into the central idea behind Project Play.