2026:
1/27/26: WHRO interviewed Center Director Derek Chapman about the Virginia Opioid Cost Data Tool
1/15/26: The Virginian-Pilot published a story about the Virginia Opioid Cost Data Tool
1/11/26: The Virginian-Pilot Daily Press interviewed UX Lead Designer Lucy Hahn and Derek Chapman about the Virginia Opioid Cost Data Tool
2025:
12/12/25: VCU News published a story about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cities LEAD grant. The Big Cities Health Coalition also published a press release
12/4/25: The Virginia Wellbeing Dashboard was cited in stories by CBS 42 (Birmingham, AL) and News Channel Nebraska
11/20/25: WBEZ Chicago interviewed Steve Woolf for the story Chicago's 'Death Gap': How a Three-Generation West Side Family Fights to End It
11/14/25: CBS 6 interviewed Derek Chapman and Lucy Hahn about the Virginia Opioid Cost Data Tool
11/13/25: WAVY-TV 10, WVBT FOX43, and EVBT CW Hampton Roads interviewed Derek Chapman and Lucy Hahn about the Virginia Opioid Cost Data Tool
11/12/25: WRIC published an online story about the Virginia Opioid Cost Data Tool
2024:
10/30/24: Virginia Wellbeing Dashboard website launched (see press release)
10/10/24: National Public Radio (NPR) academic minute about the Center’s prior publication comparing life expectancy in U.S. and Canadian cities
10/09/24: The Center’s Healthy Communities for Youth project featured in Mayor Stoney’s press conference about reducing youth violence through out of school programming
09/18/24: Northern Virginia Health Foundation grant funding targets islands of disadvantage identified in prior Center reports
08/29/24: JAMA Author Interviews with Center’s Director Emeritus, Steve Woolf: Concerning Mortality Rate Trends in the U.S.
08/21/24: Journal article published in Health Reports: Extent and socioeconomic correlates of small area variations in life expectancy in Canada and the United States
08/20/24: The Center’s Interim Director, Derek Chapman, was quoted in a second news article about Petersburg, VA's health rankings
08/07/24: Journal article published in the American Journal of Public Health and featured on the cover: Political Determinants of Health: Has COVID-19 Exposed the Worst of It?
08/05/24: Interim Director Derek Chapman was quoted in a news story about Petersburg, VA's low county health ranking
07/19/24: Journal article published in Research Involvement and Engagement: Addressing opioid misuse through community-engaged strategy development: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
7/10/24: Based in part of the Center’s life expectancy calculations, the Atrius Health Equity Foundation invests $10 million in Boston to improve life expectancy.
07/08/24: AmeriCorps photovoice project video released: Foster grandparents give back
07/01/24: Journal article published in JAMA Pediatrics: Excess US Deaths Attributable to High All-Cause Mortality Rates Among Youths Aged 0 to 19 Years
03/20/24: The Center’s Director Emeritus, Steve Woolf, was quoted in CNN article about life expectancy and drug overdose deaths
01/17/24: Opioid Cost Calculator website updated (see press release, CBS 6 News story, and Axios Richmond story)
2023:
11/16/23: Lost Opportunities report and map tool released (see news coverage: Greater Greater Washington, Virginia Mercury, VPM News, WTOP, WTVF
10/05/23: The Center’s Interim Director, Derek Chapman, was interviewed about life expectancy in Richmond, VA for an episode of VPM Focal Point
09/18/23: Special issue of Metropolitan Universities (guest edited by the Center’s Emily Zimmerman) published: Developing and Sustaining Institutional Support for Community-Engaged Research
06/28/23: Dying Too Soon report and two-pagers released (see news coverage)
06/27/23: The Health Care Costs of Extreme Heat report published. See news coverage (ABC News, CleanTechnica, Oil Change International, Salon, WRVA, ZME Science)
06/23/23: The Center’s Director Emeritus, Steve Woolf, participated in an AJPH Podcast entitled, Decline in U.S. Life Expectancy
06/08/23: Journal article published in the American Journal of Public Health: Falling Behind: The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy Between the United States and Other Countries, 1933-2021. See news coverage: (CNN, Katie Couric Media, PBS NewsHour, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Post
02/23/23: The Center’s Interim Director, Derek Chapman was invited to present the Opioid Cost Calculator website and methods to a meeting of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.