Did you know that Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) is opening a new hospital in September 2024? The Arthur M. Blank Hospital, which will be located in North Druid Hills, will have 19 stories and more than 446 beds to…
The sun is not the only thing shining bright this summer – so is KDHRC! We are proud to announce we were awarded funding for Phase I of our SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program entitled “Personalized Approach to Habits-…
Did you know that KDHRC releases new, exciting research briefs each month on topics as varied as youth vaping behavior, wearable fitness devices, and artificial intelligence? Our Informing Public Health research series summarizes our research advances across our areas of…
In September, Project Manager Dexter Cooper attended the Meharry Oral Systemic Integration Summit hosted by the Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry in Nashville, TN. At this meeting, a diverse group of attendees, including those representing the dental profession, academia,…
Happy Flounder’s Day! No, that is not a typo. Today, we’re celebrating the founding of KDHRC. Yes, we recognize that KDHRC’s mascot is a squirrel, not a fish. But somewhere along the way, FOUNDER turned into FLOUNDER! So, what is…
This month, ACR Open Rheumatology published a new paper authored by several KDHRC staffers: Andrew Simkus, Nikki Wanty, Annie McNeill, and Kristen Holtz. In this article, KDHRC and our colleagues assessed outcomes on the Lupus Therapeutics’ Patient Advocates for Lupus…
In May 2023, Lupus Therapeutics and Lupus Research Alliance held a two-day Lupus Clinical Investigators Network (LuCIN) Community Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. The meeting was for stakeholders including researchers, pharmaceutical companies, community leaders, and people living with lupus to…
--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…
--August 2018 Researcher receives promotion, now Senior Research Associate KDHRC is proud to announce that Nicole I. Wanty has been promoted to Senior Research Associate. Nicole has been on our research staff for more than eight years. During her time…
--July 2018 Presenting the dangers of vaping to local school faculty and staff In addition to developing AVOID, our vaping prevention program for youth, KDHRC presents regularly to school boards and schools about the dangers of vaping. Recently, one of…
--July 2018 KDHRC receives Puentes Fast Track Funding from NIH KDHRC is proud to announce a FastTrack award for an NIH SBIR grant. To complete Puentes, we will develop, implement, and rigorously evaluate a culturally competent, online professional development course…
--July 2018 KDHRC receives Cochlear Implant University Phase 2 funding from NIH KDHRC is proud to announce their award of SBIR Phase II funding to continue the development and evaluation of Cochlear Implant University (CIU). This program is designed to…
--July 2018 KDHRC attends and exhibits at CADCA MidYear in Orlando KDHRC attended CADCA’s MidYear event, a training session for drug prevention coalition leaders across the county. The event was attended by more than 2,000 professionals and had a record-breaking…
--July 2018 KDHRC presents on cochlear implant program at Healthy Aging Summit in Washington D.C. Hearing loss researcher, Nicole Wanty, presented preliminary findings from an evaluation of the RCCI prototype. RCCI, or Cochlear Implant Resource Center: Online Resources for Older…
--June 2018 Laura Gover and Nicole Wanty attend AG Bell’s 2018 Convention in Scottsdale, KDHRC exhibits We recently attended AG Bell’s annual convention to promote KDHRC’s three cochlear implant programs; The CI Toolkit, Cochlear Implant University, and Online Resources for…
--June 2018 Laura Gover and Nicole Wanty attend Hearing Loss Association of America’s 2018 Convention in Minneapolis, Nicole presents on RCCI. We recently attended HLAA’s annual convention to promote KDHRC’s three cochlear implant programs; The CI Toolkit, Cochlear Implant University,…
--June 2018 Dr. Kristen Holtz presents on lupus awareness campaign at the 2018 USF Social Marketing Conference in Clearwater, FL Dr. Holtz presented findings from the American College of Rheumatology’s CDC-funded lupus awareness campaign to a room full of behavior…
--June 2018 Dr. Kristen Holtz presents on lupus awareness campaign at the 2018 USF Social Marketing Conference in Clearwater, FL Dr. Holtz presented findings from the American College of Rheumatology’s CDC-funded lupus awareness campaign to a room full of behavior…
--June 2018 KDHRC completes CAP program through NIH We recently led a closeout session for NIH’s commercialization acceleration program (CAP). The session outline changes we have implemented to our corporate commercialization efforts throughout our participation in the program. We gained…
--May 2018 Laura Gover and Nicole Wanty present and attend GA Bell’s Semi-Annual Chapter Meeting KDHRC staffers, including our cochlear implant program manager, attended GA Bell’s chapter meeting, held at the Atlanta Speech School. We presented on one of our…
— May 2018 KDHRC publishes a research brief on the effectiveness of online and in-person training on lupus for promotores. Research brief number 16 examines the effectiveness of in-person and online lupus assessment trainings to promotores at Latino-serving health nonprofits. …
--April 2018 KDHRC attends and exhibits at the National RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta With the continued opioid epidemic, attending this year’s summit was particularly important and engaging. Staffers connected with professionals from local, state, and federal…
--March 2018 Volunteering at GA Bell’s Hispanic Action Group Meeting. KDHRC staffers Laura Gover and Nicole Wanty attended several meetings this spring for GA Bell’s Hispanic Action Group . The group was created under an AG Bell initiative to support…
-- March 2018 KDHRC reaches science teachers at NSTA. KDHRC staffers joined hundreds of other companies to exhibit at the National Science Teacher Association’s conference in Atlanta, GA. While there, staffers conversed with teachers, administrators, and school-support staffers to disseminate…
--March 2018 KDHRC returns from Washington, DC following their second NIH commercialization presentation. KDHRC presented their strategies to a room full of investors, thought-starters, and researchers during their FeedForward session for NIH’s Commercialization Acceleration Program (CAP). This is the second…
--February 2018 Leveraging CADCA’s Leadership forum for anti-vaping focus groups. KDHRC staffers Nicole Wanty and Melody Simpson attended CADCA’s 28th National Leadership Forum in Washington D.C. to lead focus groups for AVOID, KDHRC’s NIH-funded project, to inform youth of the…
--February 2018 Becoming change agents. KDHRC staffers Meghan and Laura joined thousands of professionals striving to change people’s health behaviors at Rescue’s Agents of Change Summit in San Diego, California. The event included presentations, workshops, networking, and break-out-sessions allowing attendees…
--January 2018 KDHRC staffers Rosa Smith and Debra Kozlowski attend the GA State of Latinos conference in Atlanta. Hosted by the Latin American Association, the conference focused on the critical issues facing Georgia’s rapidly growing Latino population. Staffers enjoyed networking…
Todo Promotores Clearinghouse (TPC): Recursos para organizaciones sin fines de lucro con la finalidad de formular, ejecutar y evaluar programas de promotores que apoyan a latinos de bajos ingresos. KDH Research & Communication se complace en anunciar el lanzamiento…
-- July 2017 Promoting Project PENCIL at Atlanta’s Back to School Bash On August 29th, KDHRC researchers attended Atlanta Public Schools’ Back-to-School-Bash to promote and distribute Project PENCIL. Project PENCIL provides parents and teachers of children with chronic illnesses with…
-- May 2017 Research, accounting assistants join KDHRC Halley Myers and Kelsi Jackson, KDHRC’s newest research assistants join the team to support several projects including the FDA’s teen tobacco prevention campaign, The Real Cost, and the American College of Rheumatology’s…
-- March 2017 KDHRC receives funding for youth e-cigarette prevention toolkit Funded by the National Institute of Health(NIH)’s National Institute on Drug Abuse and Prevention (NIDA), KDHRC will develop, evaluate, and disseminate AVOID. AVOID or Anti-Vaping Online Information Dissemination, will…
-- November 2016 KDHRC celebrates its 10th anniversary! KDHRC celebrates its 10th year of making impactful health changes in the unique communities it supports. Dr. Kristen Holtz, KDHRC’s President and Founder, would like to thank all of our collaborators and…
-- July 2016 KDHRC introduces two new research assistants KDHRC welcomes Melody Simpson-Jiles and Debra Kozlowski to the team as research assistants. Melody recently graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Economics and an M.P.A. When it…
--June 2016 KDHRC receives funding from NIH for RCCI KDHRC is excited to announce that we have been awarded funding for Online Resources for Older Adults with Cochlear Implants (RCCI). RCCI was granted by the National Institutes of Health’s National…
October 2015 --- The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities funds KDHRC to develop and evaluate a program to train promotores to conduct outreach to Latinas with suspected or diagnosed lupus KDHRC will collaborate with the American College…
August 2015 --- The SecuRx website receives a Digital Health AwardSM SecuRx, an online training and information resource to help middle and high schools develop a comprehensive diversion-prevention program to reduce prescription drug abuse, received a Silver Award for Website in the…
July 2015 --- KDHRC researcher presents at national community health worker conference KDHRC research associate, Rosa Steen, presented at the 13th annual Unity conference in Memphis, Tennessee on July 15, 2015. Ms. Steen discussed best practices to facilitate promotores de salud program development based…
July 2015 --- KDHRC researcher speaks at regional oral health summit KDHRC research associate, Nicole Wanty, participated in a panel at the Learning and Leading: Options and Opportunities to Address Unmet Oral Health Needs regional summit in Biloxi, Mississippi on July 22,…
June 2015 --- KDHRC announces location of new corporate headquarters KDH Research & Communication (KDHRC) is pleased to announce the location of its new corporate headquarters in the historic Colony Square complex in vibrant Midtown Atlanta. Specifically, our new corporate…
May 2015 --- KDHRC program receives award from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) En Familia: Families Partnering for Health received an IHA Award at the Fourteenth Annual IHA Health Literacy Conference in Irvine, California on May 8, 2015. The IHA…
April 2015 --- KDHRC researchers present at the Society for Public Health Education's annual meeting KDHRC research associates, Nicole I. Wanty and Rosa M. Steen, presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) in Portland, Oregon…
March 2015 --- KDHRC researcher presents at the Plain Talk Conference KDHRC Research Associate, Rosa M. Steen, presented at the Plain Talk Conference in Arlington, Virginia on March 13, 2015. Her presentation entitled, “Developing Linguistically and Culturally Appropriate Health Programs,”…