Proven Impact — our research has led to (among many innovations):

• Legislation that allows Medicaid payment for services from a certified doula for pregnant women in Minnesota
• Legislation that requires all new and remodeled buildings to be fully accessible to people with disabilities
• National Minor’s Consent to Health Services Act of 1971
• First comprehensive definition of childhood abuse and neglect
• First model to predict probability of complications from radiation therapy
• the first report to show high rates of concussions associated with youth football players (1983)
• First city-wide ban of cigarette vending machines in the U.S. (1989)
• FDA-proposed restrictions of tanning bed use by people 18 years of age and younger
• Changes in the care and treatment of HIV-positive people worldwide based on the SPH global START trial
• Development of the Minnesota Model used nationwide to track foodborne illness outbreaks
• Development of the Minnesota Code to read electrocardiograms in a universally applicable and understandable way
• Mediterranean Diet