The health research collaborative I belong to is presenting our work at Nationhood Lab’s home institution, the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, at Salve Regina University in… Read more »
Articles Tagged: academic research
Discussing the cultural determinants of health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 2 (private)
I’ve been involved in a research collaboration on the geography of health (using the American Nations model) with Ross Arena of the University of Illinois-Chicago and Nico Pronk, president of… Read more »
Presenting to the Maine Public Health Association on the geography of health, Augusta, Maine, Oct. 27 (private)
The Maine Public Health Association has invited me to present on our research on the regional geography of health outcomes, wellness, and longevity as the keynote address of their annual… Read more »
Laying out the American Nations paradigm for health and medical researchers
In addition to its data journalism and national narrative work, Nationhood Lab engages in peer-reviewed academic research, collaborating on twenty-five papers published over as many months. While the project has worked with political… Read more »
The American Nations, health lifestyles, COVID-19 and life expectancy
NEWPORT, R.I. (July 9) – A series of newly published studies reveal significant differences between U.S. regions in various measures of health and healthy lifestyles, life expectancy, and COVID-19 infection, vaccination… Read more »
Voter turnout and health outcomes are interrelated and vary by region, according to latest research from Nationhood Lab collaboration
April 3, 2023 NEWPORT, RI – Voter participation and health outcomes in the United States are interrelated, according to a new academic paper in the journal The Lancet Regional Health… Read more »
The geography of disability and the American Nations
Over at Nationhood Lab, the research project and data journalism portal I lead at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center, I write about research we recently published in the Journal of… Read more »
Obesity, diabetes, inactivity and the American Nations
July 27 2023 NEWPORT, R.I. – Newly published research reveals stark differences between U.S. regions in the prevalence of diabetes, obesity, and physical inactivity, as well as access to exercise… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.