CFAH Press Releases
CFAH Announces Appointment of Nine New FellowsMay 24, 2010
Analysis Shows Americans Do Not Consistently Perform the Actions Needed To Fully Benefit from Their Health Care
May 20, 2010
Center for Advancing Health President and Founder, Jessie Gruman, PhD, to Receive Honorary Degree from Clark University
May 18, 2010
Center for Advancing Health Receives Exceptional Rating by Charity Navigator for Third Consecutive Year
May 17, 2010
Trudy Lieberman Appointed First Center for Advancing Health Fellow
March 29, 2010
Journal of Participatory Medicine Releases Inaugural Issue
CFAH President and Founder, Jessie Gruman, PhD, Serves as Co-Editor of The Journal
October 21, 2009
CFAH Research Helps Develop Better Consumer Tools for Healthcare Decisions
June 22, 2009
Dr. Jessie Gruman, President of the Center for Advancing Health, Recognized By Four Universities for Work on Behalf of Patients
May 28, 2009
CFAH President, Jessie Gruman, PhD, Appears on The Martha Stewart Show
March 27, 2009
CFAH Announces New Name, New Website
March 25, 2009
Center for Advancement of Health Receives 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator for Second Consecutive Year
February 11, 2009
CFAH in the News
In addition to providing background information for health journalists, the Center reaches newspaper and magazine readers directly through publication of op-ed columns and letters to the editor that reflect our view of how behavior affects health.Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor
New York Times, July 3, 2007
Dealing With a Diagnosis - Online Q&A
Washington Post, February 6, 2007
How Much Do You Want — or Need — To Know?
Washington Post, February 6, 2007
Hey, Sleepy, Want to Buy a Good Nap?
New York Times, February 1, 2007
A Very Good Place to Grow Up, for Almost Everyone
Washington Post, January 30, 2007
When the Diagnosis is Scary
Parade Magazine, January 14, 2007
Starting Out the Year Right
Washington Post, January 9, 2007
Race Gap Persists in Health Screening
Washington Post, October 17, 2006
Old Habits Die Hard
Washington Post, September 26, 2006
The Great Giveaway
Wall Street Journal, Online edition, July 8, 2006
Dubious reports undermine credibility of media, medical researchers
Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, April 25, 2006
Claims not proven
Letter to the Editor, Bradenton Herald, January 23, 2006
Student was not holding a ‘fake’ gun
Readers’ Representative Column, Kansas City Star, January 22, 2006
Coping With a Fear of the Flu
Letter to the Editor, Washington Post, November 1, 2005
Until government gets a clue, here's what to do about flu
Op-Ed, The Chicago Sun-Times, October 29, 2005
Here's to Better Health Reporting
Letter to the Editor, The Washington Post, February 8, 2005
Science and the Bush Administration
Letter to Science Magazine, January 28, 2005
Healthy living influenced by more than genetics, will power
Op-Ed, Published in The Daily Herald, Provo (UT), September 23, 2004
Give sound appraisal of medication's risks
Letter to USAToday, September 23, 2004
Now that Medicare covers obesity, it's time to test remedies
Column, Published in the Chicago Sun-Times, September 4, 2004
How Foundations Hurt Charities
Op-Ed, Published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 19, 2004
Fighting fat: Some public and personal strategies
Op-Ed, Published in San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12, 2004
Prison Doesn't Work
Letter to The Tampa Tribune, September 17, 2003
Weighty Advice
Letter to the Editor, Washington Post, September 6, 2003
In Public Service Ads, Celebrities Can Drum Up Fame or Shame for a Variety of Causes (excerpt only)
Washington Post, August 18, 2003
Help minority men
Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, August 17, 2003
Medical research: We get what they pay for
Op-Ed, Tallahassee Democrat, July 22, 2003
Op-Ed, New London Day, July 31, 2003
Letter to the Editor
Newsweek, June 30, 2003
It Shouldn't Take a Number
Op-Ed, The Washington Times, June 4, 2003
Market Research
Op-Ed, The Baltimore Sun, April 25, 2003
Op-Ed, The Capital Times, April 29, 2003
Op-Ed, The Record, April 29, 2003
The free market and the SARS virus
Op-Ed, The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 22, 2003
"Medicine and People of Color"
Op-Ed, The San Francisco Chronicle, March 17, 2003
Letter to the Editor
The Washington Post, February 13, 2003
Letter to the Editor
Newsweek, February 3, 2003
"Nicotine patch helps"
Letter to the Editor, USA Today, Jan. 9. 2003
