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Global Flourishing Study: A Collaborative Inquiry into Human Well-Being

Pat Heffernan: Apr 30, 2025 7:45:00 PM

I was thrilled to watch the Global Flourishing Study (GFS) announcement video earlier today, April 30, 2025. This collaborative, multi-year effort...

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Support Caregivers, Help People You Know — and the Economy Too?

Pat Heffernan: Mar 7, 2025 11:15:00 AM

I am comfortable stating that we all know someone who is either a caregiver or who needs regular care — and I don't like to use the word "all"...

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Americans are Turning Off the News

Pat Heffernan: Nov 5, 2021 6:32:28 PM

If you find yourself skimming the morning news and skipping the evening news, you're not alone. Columbia Journalism Review reports that there is a...

Slowly Ever So Slowly More Female CEOs

Pat Heffernan: Jun 4, 2021 5:31:19 PM

Over the past 20 years, the number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies has increased by nearly 14-fold. Sounds good until you realize in 2021...

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Ageism, Economic Development and Entrepreneurship

Pat Heffernan: Mar 31, 2021 11:15:00 AM

The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are... Does age predict entrepreneurial success? Yes, say many Americans, and they would be right. But they would...

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Is Your Trust in the CDC Eroding?

Pat Heffernan: Sep 13, 2020 8:42:54 PM

Despite missteps amid a charged political season, I believe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) remains a public health institution...

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Public Health-Food System-Public Interest Communication Challenge

Pat Heffernan: Apr 7, 2019 1:32:24 PM

The most compelling and convincing of the many pieces I've seen during National Public Health Week 2019 are an article and a video in The New York...

Toxic Chemicals: States Are Doing What EPA Won’t

Pat Heffernan: Jun 28, 2018 9:43:44 AM

Image Credit Patrick Kyle Since residents of Bennington, Vermont found PFOA in their tap water last year, it seemed a given to many of us that a...