Earlier this month, KDHRC staffers attended the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) Unity Conference in Columbus, Ohio. Staffers had the wonderful opportunity to connect and engage with many incredible community health workers (CHWs), CHW leadership, and CHW allies…
Last month, our Senior Account Manager Jordan Hartley and Account Manager Morgan Fleming traveled to New Orleans to engage with peers in the tobacco prevention field at the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco. They focused on sessions exploring…
On March 11, 2025, KDHRC hosted a 3-hour webinar titled Postpartum Health: Navigating Barriers to Mental and Physical Well-Being Among High-Risk Populations. Experts and attendees discussed the challenges and issues surrounding maternal mortality and identified critical gaps in maternal health…
Happy New Year! KDHRC is excited about the impactful work we will undertake this year and the opportunity to explore new endeavors. In the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, the American Public Health Association (APHA) has launched their 2025 Winter…
KDHRC Highlights from the Southeast CHW Networking Summit KDHRC participated in the third Annual Southeast Community Health Worker (CHW) Networking Summit, a two-day event held in midtown Atlanta. This gathering brought together CHWs and allies from 11 states, including Georgia,…
Earlier this month, KDHRC Account Associate Morgan Fleming traveled to Chicago, Illinois for the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) 23rd Annual Mid-Year Training Institute. As an avid conference presenter and attendee, Morgan was impressed with the variety in workshop…
Last month, Program Manager Dexter Cooper and Senior Research Manager Nikki Wanty attended the Lupus Clinical Investigators Network (LuCIN) Community Meeting. Each year, the Lupus Therapeutics and Lupus Research Alliance holds an annual two-day LuCIN Community Meeting, and this year’s…
Earlier this month, Morgan Fleming, an Account Associate at KDH Research & Communication, presented new research at the Georgia Public Health Association (GPHA) Conference in Jekyll Island, GA. During her 30-minute roundtable discussion, Morgan shared our analysis of how parents…
Nicole Wanty, KDHRC’s senior research manager, attended the Patient Advocates for Lupus Studies (PALS) 2.0 training in Palm Springs, CA from March 20-22, 2024. The PALS program is a peer-to-peer program to increase diversity and participation in lupus clinical trials…
On February 7 and 8 2024, KDHRC had the privilege of attending the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors’ (NACDD) Open House and Annual Public Health Program Success Showcase. At the Open House, KDHRC was able to reconnect with many…
Follow KDHRC's new one-pager series on youth vaping Vaping seems ubiquitous among youth. In KDHRC’s one-pager series Vaping Attitudes Youth Perspectives Survey, or VAYPS, we use a robust proprietary data set to explore associations between youth vaping usage and various…
On May 03, 2023, KDHRC co-hosted a day-long meeting in Atlanta, Georgia with the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Oral Health. The goal of the meeting was to…
On November 19, 2019 KDHRC launched AVOID -- our anti-vaping prevention program for middle and high school students. We are proud to offer a science-based prevention program for schools and communities to teach middle and high school age youth about the risks…
KDHRC started the year off strong at the 4th annual National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) Showcase 2020, which took place in Atlanta, GA. This year's Showcase theme was “Elevating Public Health to Social Health – Establishing Multisectoral Partnerships…
KDHRC launched AVOID on November 19, 2019! We are proud to offer an evidence-based prevention program for schools and communities to teach middle and high school age youth about the risks of vaping. AVOID was designed to make prevention efforts easy and comes…
KDHRC had the pleasure of hosting the AVOID Scientific Panel on Youth Vaping. On December fifth, we invited members of the Atlanta community who work with youth to join us at the Friendly Human studio to engage in discussion with…
In November, KDHRC celebrated our thirteen-year anniversary. As part of our annual "Flounder's Day" (= Founder's Day- but if you know, you know) we headed to the Atlanta Beltline to participate in a scavenger hunt. We split into three teams…
In November, KDHRC president and founder, Kristen Holtz, was interviewed by WSB-TV's Tom Regan to talk about AVOID - our anti-vaping prevention program for middle and high school students. In the interview, Kristen gave Tom an overview of all the…
In late October, KDHRC attended the fourth annual National Institutes of Health Tobacco Regulatory Science Meeting (NIHTRSM). The NIHTRSM was created through the common goal of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to…
In collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health's (MDH) Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control (CTPC), KDHRC seeks to better understand statewide trends in vapes and tobacco use among youth and young adults in Maryland. As a part of this…
Last week the AJC reported that Atlanta Public Schools are preparing to update their drug and alcohol policy to specifically include vaping. Kristen Holtz, KDHRC president and APS parent, helped rewrite the policy to include clearer language on vaping and emerging…
-- September 2019 Kristen Holtz, KDHRC founder and president, co-authored a manuscript recently published in the British Medical Journal outlining results from qualitative research conducted by the Food and Drug Administration with evaluation assistance from KDHRC to test their ENDS…
--October 2019 KDHRC launched the AVOID Vaping Fast Facts Webinar, an 8-part series that covers a wide range of vaping product topics. Topics will include coverage on vape-related deaths and illnesses, vape-related policy change, the history of big tobacco marketing…
-- September 2019 Congratulations to KDHRC researchers Nikki Wanty, Joncel Stephens, and president Kristen Holtz, for their recent publication in the Journal of Clinical Medicine! This article was written in collaboration with Saira Sheikh from UNC and Sheryl McCalla from…
--August 2019 In late August, KDHRC attended the National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While in attendance, KDHRC presented new research findings from the FDA’s The Real Cost Campaign and from our very own program, AVOID…
--July 2019 KDHRC Attends CADCA Mid Year to gain program development insight from leaders in the anti-drug community. To promote AVOID, a media-based online toolkit for vape prevention for youth ages 12 to 16, and gain program development insight from leaders…
--May 2019 The Georgia Public Health Association held its 90th Annual Meeting and Conference in early May in Atlanta, GA. KDHRC staff members attended and delivered 30-minute workshops on five different projects. Two of our promotores training programs were on the…
--January 2019 KDHRC supplies drug prevention resources for North Dakota school administrators conference KDHRC was invited to attend The North Dakota Association of Secondary School Principals (NDASSP) Mid-Winter Conference from January 30th- February 1st. The association consist of more than…
--January 2019 KDHRC attends PALS training hosted by Lupus Therapeutics KDHRC visits Miami, Florida for the Patient Advocates for Lupus Studies (PALS) training hosted by Lupus Therapeutics. During this two-day training, 12 lupus patient advocates will receive education and instruction…
--January 2019 KDHRC launches fourth year of support to ACR’s CDC co-op, kicks-off VERA. KDHRC has been supporting and collaborating with the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) for more than seven years. Since 2016, we’ve supported ACR’s work on a…
--December 2018 KDHRC staffers named to Board of Directors for state hearing loss organization. KDHRC proudly recognizes two staffers for their election to the Board of Directors for AG Bell's Georgia chapter. Nicole Wanty, Senior Research Associate, will serve as…
--November 2018 KDHRC launches monthly newsletter KDHRC proudly announces the launch of our monthly electronic newsletter. The e-newsletter highlights recent accomplishments, partnership opportunities, and introduces program, services, and staffers. You can view the first edition or subscribe, here.
--Octubre 2018 KDH Research and Communication anuncian orgullosamente el lanzamiento de Dientes Fuertes, Vida Sana, un programa de entrenamiento para promotores que realizan actividades de salud dental para niños de familias latinas con bajo ingresos. Para la liberación el 11…
--October 2018 KDH Research and Communication proudly announces the launch of Dientes Fuertes, Vida Sana (Strong Teeth, Healthy Life), a training program for promotores conducting children’s dental health outreach with low-income Latino families. For release on October 11, 2018 from…
--September 2018 FDA launches first-ever national teen vaping prevention campaign with Surgeon General Jerome Adams and FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Today, the FDA launched “The Real Cost” Youth E-Cigarette Prevention Campaign. The campaign consists of hard-hitting advertising on digital and…
--August 2018 Teen tobacco prevention campaign, The Real Cost, saves more than $31 billion in smoking-related costs. A report from RTI states that since its launch in 2014, FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products’ (CTP) campaign, The Real Cost, has saved…
--August 2018 KDHRC licenses oral health program for promotores training. KDH Research & Communication (KDHRC) recently the sold licensing rights for the Dientes Fuertes, Vida Sana (DFVS) program to the South Texas Promotora Association (STPA). On October 6, 2018 STPA…
--August 2018 KDHRC granted advocate status from The National Afterschool Association. The National Afterschool Association, a membership association for professionals who work with child and youth, has added KDHRC as an advocate. The award-winning organization has a membership bank of…
-- November 2017 KDHRC publishes brief that explores characteristics of staffers most likely to benefit from TPC. The Todo Promotores Clearinghouse (TPC) strives to build the capacity of staffers at Latino health nonprofits to effectively run promotores programs. This brief…
— November 2017 KDHRC publishes a research brief on the effectiveness of Todo Promotores Clearinghouse. Research brief number 14 examines the effectiveness of the Todo Promotores Clearinghouse, an online resource to support the creation, implementation, and evaluation of promotores programming among…
KDHRC launches Todo Promotores Clearinghouse (TPC). Todo Promotores Clearinghouse (TPC): Resources for nonprofit organizations to formulate, implement, and evaluate promotores programs that support low-income Latinos. KDH Research & Communication proudly announces the launch of the Todo Promotores Clearinghouse. For release…
-- September 2017 KDHRC accepts invitation to NIH’s SBIR CAP program KDHRC has been selected to participate the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Commercialization Accelerator Program (CAP). This program aims to improve commercialization efforts and increase…
-- August 2017 KDHRC researcher presents at The UNITY Conference 2017 KDHRC Research Associate, Rosa M. Smith, presented at UNITY’s Conference: The Collective Power of CHWs, CHRs, and Promotores, in Dallas, Texas on August 7, 2017. Rosa’s presentation discussed the…
-- July 2017 National lupus awareness campaign for Latino and African American women launches On June 14th, the Lupus Foundation of America and the American College of Rheumatology launched Be Fierce. Take Control. The goal of this national campaign is…
-- June 2017 Project PENCIL: educational support for children with chronic illnesses Today, KDH Research & Communication announces the launch of Project PENCIL, which includes a publicly available website (www.projectpencil.com) and comprehensive Parents’ and Teachers’ Guides. Project PENCIL increases the…
January 2016 -- KDHRC publishes a research brief on improving students’ knowledge and attitudes about science Research brief no. 13 discusses the effectiveness of Attitude Boost (AB), a multi-media based curriculum that combines science knowledge-building and positive attitude development to…
November 2015 --- KDHRC acknowledged for outstanding public health training materials by the American Public Health Association KDHRC receives award from the American Public Health Association Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP) Materials Contest for the En Familia: Families…