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    Case Studies – Investigating underlying causes of environmental changes to inform future work

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    FoodBEAMS – Innovative web-based tool for measuring the food and beverage environment

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    Childcare - Promoting polices that increase playtime and decrease screen time

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    School environments – Improving foods & beverages available to students and increasing opportunities for physical activity

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    Food Access - Increasing healthy food access in underserved communities

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    Childcare settings – Promoting healthy foods and beverages, and active playtime policies

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    SOFIT – Monitoring moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA)

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    Safe Routes to School - Planning Safe Routes to School implementation

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    Nutrition - Evaluating policies to reduce sugary beverage consumption

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    Community food access – Introducing farmers markets, healthier corner stores, and grocery stores in underserved communities

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Welcome to The Sarah Samuels Center for Public Health Research & Evaluation Website

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Formerly Samuels & Associates, Inc., our new name is in honor of the late Dr. Sarah Samuels, who dedicated her long and successful career as a public health researcher and advocate to improve the public’s health. Since her passing over a year ago, the Samuels Center continues to thrive as a consulting firm, specializing in public health evaluation and research, policy tracking and analysis, and strategic planning and program development. We are a small business located in Oakland California with branch offices in Los Angeles and Boston.

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 Our Focus Areas

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Research and Evaluation:  The qualitative and quantitative methodologies we have developed capture accomplishments, challenges, lessons learned, best practices and outcomes from initiatives focused on environmental, policy and systems change in a variety of sectors.

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Policy Tracking and Analysis:  We track and monitor the impact of policies on community health outcomes.

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Strategic Planning and Program Development:  We see strategic planning as the process of creating a road map that sets the course for where an organization, governmental institution or coalition would like to be in the future.

Testimonials

California stakeholders – from policymakers to philanthropists, advocates and community activists – rely on the relevant, timely and high quality work that Samuels Center produces.”

Marion Standish, Senior Advisor, Office of the President, The California Endowment - http://www.calendow.org/

Samuels Center staff are professional, knowledgeable and dedicated – and have been wonderful to work with on a variety of public health research projects.”

Lorrene Ritchie, PhD, RD, Director of Research, Atkins Center for Weight and Healthy, UC Berkeley - http://cwh.berkeley.edu/

I have been continually impressed with the Samuels Centers’ professional conduct and output. The staff of this organization have, due to their devotion to community health improvements, made significant contributions to the field of public health.”

Mary Story, PhD, RD Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota - http://www.sph.umn.edu/

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