2026:
7/31/26, Philadelphia Today, "Philadelphia life expectancy gap widens between city and suburban counties"
6/26/26, Maysville Online, "Personal choices account for lower life expectancy locally"
6/24/26, YourTango, "Things Rich People Stop Doing Because They Get Tired of the Rest of Us Can Never Say No To"
5/29/26, VCU News, "Changemakers honored at VCU’s Excellence in Community Engagement Awards ceremony"
5/21/26, The Guardian, "Responsibility for ill health in old age: Oxford Longevity Project study"
5/20/26, Style Weekly, "Teenage Stress: What’s Normal?"
5/7/26, City of Boston, "Health departments from 17 major U.S. cities form national network to increase life expectancy and address disparities"
4/18/26, MSN, "China’s Life Expectancy Catches Up to U.S."
3/20/26, U.S. News & World Report, "Up to 155,000 COVID Deaths May Not Have Been Counted, Study Finds"
3/9/26, NPR, "Were Americans Actually Healthier in the Past?"
2/24/26, MedPage Today, "RFK Jr. May Eliminate the USPSTF, Original Task Force Members Warn"
2/24/26, KFF Health News, "CDC’s second-in-command resigns after less than 2 months on the job"
1/27/26, WHRO Public Media, "Virginia’s opioid crisis swept from the mountains to the cities. Hampton Roads sees both problems and progress"
1/11/26, The Virginian-Pilot, “Opioid epidemic costs Virginians billions per year despite declining overdose deaths”
2025:
12/20/25, MedPage Today, "'Revolutionary' Change Needed to Address Intractable Healthcare Issue, Experts Say"
12/17/25, Newswise, "Institute for Policy Solutions to release findings from first national health inequities survey, launch Bridging Our Divide campaign"
12/12/25, Big Cities Health Coalition, "Cities LEAD launches to help cities advance life expectancy and address disparities across U.S."
12/12/25, VCU News, "VCU Center on Society and Health partners to help U.S. cities close life expectancy gaps"
12/8/25, City of Boston, "Cities LEAD launches to help cities advance life expectancy and address disparities across U.S."
12/4/25, CBS 42, "Columbia Mental Health expands access to care with new clinic in Falls Church, Virginia"
11/28/25, Farmville Herald, "Opioid crisis carries a hefty price tag"
11/20/25, WBEZ Chicago, "Chicago's 'Death Gap': How a Three-Generation West Side Family Fights to End It"
11/17/25, Axios Richmond, "Richmond area lost over $1B to Virginia's opioid crisis"
11/14/25, CBS 6 Local News, "Virginia's opioid crisis cost $5.2 billion in 2023, but recovery investments show promise"
11/13/25, Wavy TV 10 (YouTube), "VCU study: $786M lost in opioid epidemic in '23"
11/13/25, WAVY TV 10, "$786 million lost in Hampton Roads due to opioid epidemic in 2023 according to new VCU study"
11/11/25, ABC 8 News, "Richmond lost $526 million in opioid economic costs in 2023 — highest in Virginia: VCU database"
11/11/25, MSN, "Richmond lost $526 million in opioid economic costs in 2023 — highest in Virginia: VCU database"
11/11/25, VCU News, “The opioid epidemic in Virginia: 2,000+ saved lives, $5.2B in possible savings”
10/7/25, Henrico Citizen, "Virginia gubernatorial candidates discuss Medicaid, other issues at forum"
10/1/25, Smith Mountain Eagle, "Virginia gubernatorial candidates discuss Medicaid, other issues at forum"
10/2025, VCU News, "VCU team heads to Congress for Rally for Medical Research"
9/25/25, FOX4KC, "Institute for Policy Solutions to launch groundbreaking campaign to eliminate health inequities in the U.S."
9/23/25, Richmond BizSense, "The Herd: New hires, promotions, departures for 9/23/25"
9/18/25, Newsweek, "China’s Life Expectancy Catches Up to U.S."
8/20/25, VCU News, "Richmond’s youth violence risk overlaps with historic redlining, new VCU research finds"
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.