During Jewish American Heritage Month, HHS celebrates the researchers, health care providers, and other leaders in the Jewish American community who have made lasting impacts on the health of our country.
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This was such an air-mazing experience! Charles Lee, thank you for your words of wisdom around #EnvironmentalJustice, especially as we look to the future of the Cumulative Impact Assessment.
Last week, the Chicago Department of Public Health had the opportunity to host Charles Lee, the founder of the EJ movement at the USEPA. It was an honor to receive encouragement and insight from Charles regarding the great work being done through the Cumulative Impact Assessment and other initiatives at CDPH.
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Learn more about why I love doing public health communications!
Laura Vandiver MA, CHES, NBC-HWC, Managing Director, shares her favorite work at Lambert in health communications and public health. Together, we’ve won the moments that matter.
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PBS on public health begins tonight, The Invisible Shield. Given how much work so many of our public libraries are doing to foster healthy communities through education, activities, programs, services, and partnerships - and given how even the US Surgeon General is naming libraries as a pillar in public health, it's worth taking a second to view. https://lnkd.in/gskU-V77
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The idea of a dumpster fire seldom elicits positive imagery; however, to MB (Marybeth) Mitcham, director of the online MPH program and assistant professor in the Department of Global and Community Health, one particular dumpster fire signifies success. Learn more about how a dumpster fire represents a heartwarming public health initiative and a lesson about collaboration: https://ow.ly/ZrJr50PXOMn
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Today kicks off National Public Health Week (#NPHW), the American Public Health Association's annual campaign to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving the nation’s health. Today’s theme is Civic Engagement, or the actions that we and our communities take to identify and address problems. When we talk about civic engagement, we must acknowledging the role that power plays in creating the change that communities seek. Power determines access to resources, who makes decisions, who thrives, and who is left behind. In our blog post Building Power to Achieve Healthier and More Just Communities, we delve into a discussion on power and how it can be shared and built upon to transform inequitable systems. Read more at https://lnkd.in/e4HVSgE5 #communityengagement #civicengagement #publichealth
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When patients are provided with culturally and linguistically appropriate information, they are empowered to create healthier outcomes for themselves and their communities. During National Minority Health Month, learn about how your organization can become more health literate and increase its communication effectiveness by recognizing and bridging cultural differences that may contribute to miscommunication: https://lnkd.in/d-p3CeU
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We are proud to join AHIP, Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP), American Hospital Association, and American Medical Association as a founding member of the Common Health Coalition: Together for Public Health. We are partnering to translate the hard-won lessons and successes of the COVID-19 pandemic response into actionable strategies that will strengthen the partnership between our health care and public health systems. It’s time for a reimagined health system: one in which the nation’s health care and public health systems no longer work in parallel, but hand in hand – with better health for all as the common goal. https://k-p.li/3FSQHfK
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In honor of the many public health champions I'm privileged to know, I'm sharing this powerful new series from PBS. The Invisible Shield examines how public health makes modern life possible, but it is underfunded, undervalued and misunderstood putting our health at risk. https://lnkd.in/grfPeSmP
The Invisible Shield | Made Possible By Bloomberg Philanthropies
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Happening tomorrow, February 21st from 9 - 10:30 AM EST, join our webinar "The Role of Public Health Schools in a Climate-Changing World." See flyer below for registration and more details!
Attention public health professionals, community leaders, and climate and health advocates. Please check our our webinar "The Role of Public Health Schools in a Climate-Changing World" happening on February 21 from 9 - 10:30 AM EST. Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region - ASPHER
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Today is Word Health Day and the WHO has chosen this year's theme to be 'My health, my right'. Check out these important facts in regards to our human rights related to health: https://lnkd.in/exJQVft
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