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Volume 8, Number 1 (2020)

Editorial

BRIEF Reports

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Lessons Learned in the Early Stages of a Community-Academic Partnership to Address Health Disparities in a Rural Community
Tiffany R. Washington, Brian M. Rivers, L. Sherrié Raleigh, Natalie D. Hernandez, Mindy Le, A. Keith Green, Jeffery Lawrence, and Henry N. Young

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Maternal Mortality among African American Women in the State of Georgia, Causes, Policy, and Ethical Considerations
Zahra Shahin, Isabella Hardwick, Nancy Jeffery, JaLisa Jordan, and William A. Mase

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FitnessGram Assessment Results in Five Rural Counties of Georgia
Tara L. Underwood, JImmie H. Smith Jr, and Dawood H. Sultan

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Examining the Effectiveness of a Nutrition Education Intervention for Hispanic Participants
Ginnefer O. Cox, Britt Rotberg, Melanie K. Ng, Sarah T. Henes, and Silvia Q. Giraudo

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Serving Their Needs: A Qualitative Examination of Nutrition Policy Implementation in the Early Care and Education Setting
Caree J. Cotwright, Jori Hall, Nicole M. Arrington, Nathalie Celestin, Hayley Sanders, Taylor Ragan, Sarah Stotz, and Leann Birch

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Utilization of a Community-based Participatory Approach to Design and Implement a Peer-led Parenting Pilot Intervention to Influence Child Nutritional and Physical Activity Behaviors
Tabia K. Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH; David Satcher; Victor Ede, MBBS; Glenda Wrenn, MD; Cassandra Bolar, PHD; Aneeqah Ferguson; Evonne Perdue; Martha Okafor; Kisha Holden; and LeRoy Reese, PhD

Practice Notes

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Redefining Our Understanding of The Impact of Firearm-Related Injury in the State of Georgia: A White Paper by the Violence Prevention Task Force of IPRCE
Omar K. Danner MD; Lauren Hudak MD, MPH; Rana Bayakly MPH; Carol Koplan MD; Alexander Kelly; Sharon L. Nieb PhD, MSW; and Sheryl L. Heron MD, MPH

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Bridge Builders to Health Equity: The High School Community Health Worker Training Program
Arletha D. Williams-Livingston, Christopher E. Ervin, and Gail G. McCray

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Improving the Public’s Health Through Sustained, Multidisciplinary Academic and Community Partnerships: The MSM Model
Desiree A. Rivers PhD; Carla Durham Walker MA; Ashley K. Mitchell DrPH, MSPH; Shirleta Lawrence; and Carey Roth Bayer EdD, MEd, BSN, RN, CSE

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Making the Case for Community Health Workers in Georgia
Gail G. McCray, Berneta L. Haynes, Adrianne S. Proeller, Christopher E. Ervin, and Arletha D. Williams-Livingston

Editors

Special Issue Editor
Tabia H. Akintobi, PhD, MPH, Morehouse School of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief
Raymona H. Lawrence, DrPH, MPH, Georgia Southern University
Founding Editor
McKinley Thomas, EdD, Georgia Southern University