Minnesota Institute of Public Health

There are simply times when people are more amenable to learning. Call it a readiness, or even heightened inclination to learn. Often it’s driven by something that happens in our environment. They are teachable moments in our lives...

Since fifth grade we’ve known the drill about water : it’s 70% of the earth’s surface, 60% of our body weight, and the most precious natural resource on the planet.  We can’t live without it.  The APHA calls Water and the public health the “21st Century Challenge”.

MIPH is working more with the issues of proper nutrition, along with issues of hunger and of starvation.

Many people have described MIPH as “The Little Company That Could”.  Some of our long time staff bristle at that, preferring the moniker, “The Middle Sized Company That DOES”...

While conversing recently with a colleague about gun violence, she told me, “There are so many out there that refuse to acknowledge these shades of gray...