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  • The deadline for submission of the 2013 Koop Award applications has been extended to 5pm EDT on Friday, May 31, 2013. The submission email address has changed. If you have already submitted your application, please resubmit your materials to karen.kent@emory.edu. The application can be accessed here.
C. Everett Koop National Health Awards

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The Health Project (THP) is a private-public organization formed to bring about critical attitudinal and behavioral changes in the American health care system, so that providers and consumers employ its vast resources with increasing knowledge and understanding.

The mission of The Health Project (THP) is to seek out, evaluate, promote and distribute programs with demonstrated effectiveness in influencing personal health habits and the cost effective use of health care services. These programs have the objectives of:

  • Providing appropriate quality care
  • Sharply reducing the alarming rate of health care inflation, by holding down unnecessary expenditures

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