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February 2010

National Health Observances for February 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

2010 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance
February 1 to 3, 2010
Bethesda, Maryland

Conference Objectives - At the conclusion of this conference, participants should be
able to:

• Discuss the science, prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance
• Define issues and potential solutions to the problem of antimicrobial resistance

9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
"Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities"
February 4 to 6, 2010
Seattle, Washington

Session Examples:

• Models for Adapting to Climate Change Impacts in Cities
• A Revolutionary Approach: Bringing an Equity Focus to Smart Growth by Engaging Marginalized Populations
• Safe Routes to School: Early Outcomes and Future Benefits
• Innovations in Healthy Food Planning Practice
• Getting to Walkability: Walk Score for Planners and the Public
• Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Survey and Demonstration of Tools Communities Can Use
• Wheel Urbanism: Bicycling’s Innovative New Contributions to Smart Growth
• Implementing State Climate Action Plans
• Smart Growth and Tribes
• Healthy Communities by Design: Models for State Public Health
• Post-Disaster Planning for Recovery and Resilience
• There’s No Better Time for Collaboration: Convergence for Healthy People and Healthy Places in Today’s Economy
• Beyond Clean Cars and Fuels: Transportation and Land-Use Planning in a Carbon-Constrained World

National Health Policy Conference
February 8 to 9, 2010
Washington, DC

This event, hosted by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs, provides clarity on the critical health care issues and priorities for the upcoming year.

Active Living Research Annual Conference
"Engaging Communities to Create Active Living Environments"
February 9 to 11, 2010
San Diego, California

The theme encompasses multiple research areas that are related to ALR's goal of reversing the childhood obesity epidemic. To enhance the relevance and impact of research, it is important to engage communities in defining research questions, identifying promising environmental and policy solutions, and ensuring results are meaningful to the people who are affected. The theme also includes research on communicating research to communities and engaging communities in using research to advocate for improved conditions to support active living.

A secondary theme of the conference is "Accelerating Progress in Reversing Childhood Obesity." The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and ALR have a goal of reversing the epidemic by 2015, which is just a few years away. Slow, steady change will not be sufficient to meet this goal, so we'll examine potential solutions that can be implemented both rapidly and widely. Creative thinking, unexpected partnerships, bold communication strategies, and innovative research and evaluation methods will be explored.

2010 Public Health Preparedness Summit
"Partners in Preparedness: Engaging a Community for a Successful Public Health Response"
February 16 to 19, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia

The summit will strengthen and enhance the capabilities of public health professionals and other participants to plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other public health emergencies.

Learning objectives include:

• Identify current priority areas in public health preparedness at the local, state, tribal, and national levels
• Identify key gaps in planning, workforce development, and performance measurement across the public health system
• Access key resources and tools that will enhance or sustain their professional work or volunteer role in planning for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and other public health emergencies
• Develop a network of professional colleagues who share a commitment to improving, enhancing, and sustaining the public health response to disasters

Preventive Medicine 2010
February 17 to 20, 2010
Crystal City, Virginia

This meeting, sponsored by American College of Preventive Medicine, is for professionals in disease prevention and health promotion.

Conference Objectives:

• Acquire the information and skills necessary to convey issues and evidence-based recommendations in population health and prevention policy.
• Describe innovative approaches to public health issues and advances in public health programs.
• Understand current recommendations for assessing health risks and delivering effective, evidence based clinical preventive services to individuals and populations.
• Describe career options and pathways in both the public sector and private sector, and explain the challenges and opportunities present in changing jobs and career focus throughout the professional lifetime of a preventive medicine physician.
• Describe the value brought to the emerging 21st-century health care system from innovative and effective “best practices” in interprofessional, interdisciplinary and community-based strategic partnerships focused on the teaching, research and practice of prevention.

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March 2010

National Health Observances for March 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) 2010 Spring Training Conference
March 4 to 5, 2010
Jacksonville, Florida

ACHI's 2010 Spring Training Conference works at the intersection of the community health, healthy communities, and community benefit sectors, with participants from hospitals and other health care providers, healthy communities groups, public health, philanthropy, and more. Event leaders will examine evidence-based community health programs, effective ways to work "upstream" on the determinants of health, and pay special attention to how our non-profit hospital friends can implement both approaches in fulfilling their community benefit accountabilities.

Sleep Health and Safety 2010 Conference
March 5 to 6, 2010
Washington, DC

The National Sleep Foundation, in joint sponsorship with the Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine, will host this event. This one and a half-day conference will offer two concurrent tracks - the Health Care Professional Track chaired by Andrew D. Krystal, MD at Duke University targeted to primary care physicians and sleep health professionals; and the Public Health and Safety Track chaired by Gregory Belenky, MD of Washington State University targeted to health, safety and school health professionals, government officials and sleep researchers.

Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit 2010
March 6 to 8, 2010
Washington, DC

This event, sponsored by the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations, offers basic, intermediate, and advanced-level advocacy training, and features issue-specific seminars by skilled government relations staff. The Summit culminates with visits with legislators or key staff on Capitol Hill, either individually or in state/district delegations.

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Annual Conference
"Moving Ahead Together: Celebrating the Legacy, Shaping the Future of Maternal and Child Health"
March 6 to 9, 2010
National Harbor, Maryland

Event topics will be related to maternal and child health practice at all levels - state, local, and national.

The American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition
"Inspire, Engage, Influence: APhA Pharmacists Lead the Way"
March 12 to 15, 2010
Washington, DC.

Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives
March 18 to 21, 2010
Napa Valley, California

In this conference, faculty members from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health will present the state of the science of diet and nutrition. These experts will be joined by world class chef educators from The Culinary Institute of America to lead demonstrations and hands-on teaching sessions (literally in the kitchen) for health care providers who wish to learn about selection, purchase and preparation strategies and techniques for healthy foods and healthy cooking. Conference attendees will not only be exposed to the latest systematic reviews of nutrition science, they will also taste, prepare and learn to teach others to enjoy a broad selection of foods which can reduce disease risk and, ideally, replace unhealthy habits.

Self, Selves and Sexualities : An Interdisciplinary Conference
March 19 to 20, 2010
Dublin, Ireland

The aim of this inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary conference is to provide an academic platform on which to initiate an open dialogue between academics, professionals and practitioners in the field of human sexuality. We seek to explore the issues that arise when the concepts of “self”, “selves” and “sexualities” interplay with each other. Practitioners from varied professional backgrounds including nurses, teachers, clergy, social workers, counsellors and doctors are also welcome.

2010 Food Safety Education Conference
Advancements in Food Safety Education: Trends, Tools and Technologies
March 23 to 26, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia

Learning objectives for this conference sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture include:

• Identify Causes and Casualties: Foodborne Illness Surveillance, Statistics and Epidemiology
• Improve Effectiveness of Social Marketing Techniques and Evaluation
• Enlist the Medical Profession in Food Safety Outreach
• Preview the Role of Technology in Consumer Education
• Identify Opportunities for Future Partnerships and Collaborations

19th International Conference on Safe Communities
March 23 to 26, 2010
Suwon, Korea

The conference focus includes injury prevention, safety promotion, and sustainability of the Safe Community program.

18th Annual Public Health Forum - Confronting the Public Health Crisis
"Global issues, local actions - health and wellbeing in a time of ecological and economic crises"
March 24 to 25, 2010
Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Key Issues for discussion, debate and presentation will include:

• What the doctor ordered, social justice and power to the people?
• The Implications of the Marmot Report
• Gaining health through participation, democracy and citizenship
• Ageing, longevity and inequalities
• Resource depletion and population health
• Creating healthy communities - housing, transport and green spaces
• Health and well-being in a time of economic and ecological crises

International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases
"From Basic Science to Clinical Practice"
March 24 to 26, 2010
Marseille, France

Teaching Prevention 2010
"Prevention & Health: Seizing the Moment"
March 25 to 27, 2010
Washington, DC

This event, sponsored by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR), includes plenary, concurrent and breakout sessions will include ways to employ government paradigm shifts into improvements in prevention education and such topics as interprofessional/interdisciplinary education and practice, issues in graduate public health education, undergraduate public health education, and community based participatory research.

NHMA 14th Annual Conference
"Health Care Transformation to Expand Prevention and Health Promotion for Hispanic Communities"
March 25 to 28, 2010
Washington DC

Workshop examples include:

Health Professions Education
Health Reform Policy
Hispanic Health Research
Clinical Updates

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April 2010

National Health Observances for April 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

2010 Joint Conference of the Society for Public Health Education and CDC Prevention Research Centers Program
"Advocate, Communicate and Translate to Enhance Research and Practice"
April 7 to 9, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia

Plenary presentations and oral concurrent sessions, as well as poster presentations and workshops, will bridge academic study and practical community application of information, best practices, lessons learned, and successes and challenges toward enhancing health promotion and disease prevention. Innovative technologies and social media will be addressed in the conference sub-themes: Social and Physical Environments, Healthy People 2020, Community-based Participatory Research, Partnerships, and Advocacy and Policy.

31st Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
April 7 to 10, 2010
Seattle, Washington

Abstract submissions are especially encouraged that reflect the theme for the 31st Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions: “Behavioral Medicine: Building for the Future.” The theme includes the following thematic areas: New Career Trajectories and Mentoring (e.g., career opportunities outside academia; new models of mentorship); New Technology (e.g., how can new technologies and social networking programs be used in health behavior change?); Basic and New Knowledge (e.g., a return to basic psychological principles and the development of new methodologies); Health Disparities and Ethical Issues (e.g., new Scientific and policy efforts to reduce health disparities; ethical issues associated with personalized medicine).

American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Annual Conference
April 13 to 15, 2010
Anaheim, California

CDC Diabetes Translation Conference
April 13 to 16, 2010
Kansas City, Missouri

Conference Goals:

• Explore science, policy, education, program planning, implementation, and evaluation to enhance public health approaches and strategies to prevent and control diabetes.
• Increase knowledge and awareness of successful, cost-effective, public and private diabetes programs and best practices.
• Present innovative strategies to increase awareness about how to prevent complications, disabilities, and burden associated with diabetes.
• Share and showcase effective strategies towards the elimination of diabetes-related health disparities.
• Provide opportunities for skill-building, information-sharing, and networking.

Unite For Sight Global Health & Innovation 2010 Conference
April 17 to 18, 2010
New Haven, Connecticut

Abstract categories include:

Global Health
Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
International Development
International Education
NGOs and Community-Based Programs
Scientific and Medical Laboratory-Based Research
Clinical Research
Advocacy and Health Policy

World Vaccine Congress 2010
April 19 to 22, 2010
Washington, DC

The longest-running and largest vaccine industry event in North America, World Vaccine Congress continues to deliver a forum where the ever-changing dynamics of an industry in resurgence are discussed and acted upon by the industry’s most senior figures.

Internal Medicine 2010
April 22 to 24, 2010
Toronto, Canada

More than 260 sessions provide comprehensive coverage of internal medicine, its subspecialties,
hospital medicine, and issues in practice management and health care policy.

Program Objectives - At the conclusion of Internal Medicine 2010, participants should be able to:

• Assess recent advances in clinical medicine and related sciences in light of the supporting evidence.
• Revise their clinical practices in accordance with these advances to improve patient care.
  Use updated clinical skills in physical examination, communication with patients, and clinical information management.
• Evaluate and respond to changes in the external practice environment and their potential
  impact on medical practice and patient care.

2010 National Oral Health Conference
"Pursuing Excellence in Dental Public Health"
April 26 to 28, 2010
St. Louis, Missouri

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May 2010

National Health Observances for May 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health
May 5 to 8, 2010
Toronto, Canada

The goal of the 3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health is to provide a scientific forum in which delegates from around the world can come together to discuss and debate the latest scientific evidence supporting the contribution of regular physical activity to public health. An emphasis will be placed on identifying areas of scientific knowledge that will be of greatest interest to practitioners and policymakers. In particular the focus will be on outcomes and determinants of physical activity and health.

7th Annual Nutrition & Health Conference
"Nutrition and Health: State of the Science and Clinical Applications"
May 9 to 12, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia

This event assembles internationally-recognized researchers, clinicians, educators, and chefs, all of whose work focuses on the interface between nutrition and healthful living.

2010 American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting
May 12 to 15, 2010
Orlando, Florida

The AGS Annual Scientific Meeting is the premier educational event in geriatrics, providing the latest information on clinical care, research on aging, and innovative models of care delivery.

Abstract categories include: Body Composition, Case Studies from Clinical Practice, Clinical Trials, Dental Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology, Ethics, Geriatric Bioscience, Geriatric Education, Geriatric Syndromes, Health and Healthcare Disparities, Health Services and Policy Research, Models of Geriatric Care, Neurological and Behavioral Sciences, Organ Specific and Systemic Disorders, Preventive Medicine, Quality of Life, Rehabilitation, and Surgery in Older Patients.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 11th Conference
"Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships"
May 12 to 15, 2010
Portland, Oregon

With its focus on Transformation through Partnerships, the conference seeks to highlight the power of partnerships to lead and inspire transformation at all levels:

Societal transformation – Creating social justice by changing inequitable systems, policies, culture and values, and by fundamentally redefining how we understand community, health, science, knowledge and evidence.

Institutional and organizational transformation – Creating institutional justice by challenging and changing assumptions, systems, policies, culture, and values of the everyday organizations in which we work as well as the major institutions that shape and govern us.

Personal transformation – Creating interpersonal justice by encouraging self-reflection and challenging personal assumptions and values in ways that strengthen capacity and commitment to work for social justice.

12th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence
May 12 to 15, 2010
Vilnius, Lithuania

Core topics to be addressed include well known as well as developing areas of research such as cognitive development, the role of social and economic change in adolescent development, contexts and processes of identity construction, families, parents, friends and romantic partners, life trajectories and change processes, transitions and adolescence, emerging adulthood, vocational development and work meanings, adolescent health and well-being, political development, citizenship and political participation, cultural perspectives on adolescent development, prevention, promotion and intervention projects for adolescent development, biological and neuropsychological aspects, pubertal maturation, and many others.

Annual Rural Health Conference
May 18 to 21, 2010
Savannah, Georgia

Conference - New Urbanism: Rx for Healthy Places - a Breakthrough Collaboration
May 19 to 22, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia

As new urbanist planning and development leaders go mainstream with proven strategies for making communities more livable, more energy efficient and better positioned for economic success, top health officials are promoting these same strategies as ways to make places healthier. CNU 18 will bring these experts together to work on making the "prescription" for healthy, walkable, vital communities an integral part of government policy, community planning and development industry practice. Join them and begin putting these solutions to use to benefit you and your community.

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
May 22 to 26, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana

9th National Conference on Immunization and Health Coalitions
“Strengthening Our Connections”
May 26 to 28, 2010
Chicago, Illinois

The conference is intended for members of health coalitions and the public health community.

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June 2010

National Health Observances for June 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

National Environmental Health Association 74th Annual Educational Conference & Exhibition
"Moving Forward"
June 6 to 9, 2010
Albuquerque, New Mexico

World Conference on Disaster Management
June 6 to 9, 2010
Toronto, Canada

Major topic areas with a global perspective will include:

Pandemic Planning
Natural Disasters
Climate Change
Corporate Resiliency
Community Planning/Preparedness
Business Continuity

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference
"Hindsight is 2020: Looking Back at the Last Decade, Looking Ahead to the Next"
June 6 to 10, 2010
Portland, Oregon

The conference connects with over 1,000 public health epidemiologists from across the country and will include workshops, plenary sessions with leaders in the field of public health, oral breakout sessions, roundtable discussions and poster presentations. Delegates from across the country meet and share their expertise in surveillance and epidemiology as well as best practices in a broad range of areas including occupational health, infectious diseases, immunization, environmental health, chronic disease, injury control and maternal and child health.

Public Health in Canada
"Shaping the Future Together"
June 13 to 16, 2010
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), public health practitioners from across the country and around the world will meet in Toronto to celebrate a century of achievements and to shape the future of public health.

Global Health Council 2010 Conference
"Dateline 2010: Global Health Goals & Metrics"
June 14 to 18, 2010
Washington, DC

Some of the questions the conference will address are:

1. How do the global goals help or hinder the achievement of providing and accessing essential health services for the world's poorest?
2. How are specific programs/partnerships contributing to the overarching goals? How are we measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of what we do? How do we share what works and what does not work in order to accelerate achievement of common goals?
3. Can goals be universally applied?
4. How can countries/governments be held accountable? How can all stakeholders/partners be held equally accountable for progress toward the goals?
5. How do we respond to challenges that impede progress toward goals, as well as to great performance?

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 25th Annual Conference
June 23 to 27, 2010
Phoeniz, Arizona

Annual Research Meeting
June 27 to 29, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts

Conference themes for this event, sponsored by AcademyHealth, include: Behavioral Health; Disparities; Insurance, Markets and Competition; Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Illness; Child Health; Gender and Health; Long-Term Care; Public Health; Comparative Effectiveness Research; Global Health; Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Reform; Quality and Efficiency: Improving Processes of Care; Consumer Engagement, Choices, and Decision-Making; Health Care Workforce; Medicare; Quality and Efficiency: Measurement; Coverage and Access; Health Information Technology; Organizational Performance and Management; and Quality and Efficiency: Policies and Incentives.

6th Annual International Conference on Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences
June 28 to July 1, 2010
Athens, Greece

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July 2010

National Health Observances for July 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Meeting
July 14 to 16, 2010
Memphis, Tennessee

The goal of this event is to enhance the ability of participants to create and build upon a forward-looking vision of local public health through disease prevention interventions and wellness promotion, elimination of health inequities among individuals and communities, and expanded leadership capacity within local health departments. NACCHO Annual 2010 will achieve this by providing action-oriented sessions that enable attendees to:

• Describe innovative, evidence-based practices, programs, policies, and systems that advance both the physical and mental health of individuals and the wellness of communities.
• Outline proven and ground-breaking strategies that local health departments and their partners can implement to eliminate inequities in the distribution of disease, illness, and death.
• Identify effective strategies to strengthen the leadership skills necessary for local health officials to position themselves in the leadership forefront to advance a forward-looking vision of local public health.
• Apply the findings of cutting-edge research to local public health practice in the areas of disease prevention interventions and wellness promotion; elimination of health inequities among individuals and communities, and enhanced leadership capacity within local health departments.

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August 2010

National Health Observances for August 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

18th Annual National Association of Local Boards of Health Conference
"Journey to the Future: Facing Public Health Challenges Today for a Healthier Tomorrow"
August 5 to 7, 2010
Omaha, Nebraska

Conference Objectives:

• Identify strategies to improve public health services in financially challenging times.
• Evaluate public health partnerships to strengthen community engagement.
• Discuss evidence-based best practices to improve the health of all communities.
• Apply quality improvement through education and innovation.
• Identify methods to evaluate public health need, programs, services, and return on investment.

20th World Congress of the International Association for Disability and Oral Health
"Caring for Quality of Life"
August 25 to 28, 2010
Ghent, Belgium

The Congress will be organized with several Central European colleagues: The Flemish Task Force for Special Care Dentistry, the Belgian Academy for Paediatric Dentistry, the Dutch Society for Oral Health and Disability, the Dutch Society for Paediatric Dentistry, the German Dental Society for Patients with Disabilities, and the Swiss Society for Disabled and Elderly.

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September 2010

National Health Observances for September 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

18th ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect
"One World, One Family, Many Cultures”
September 26 to 29, 2010
Honolulu, Hawai'i

Congress Subthemes:

1. Cultural Perspectives in Strengthening Families and Protecting Children
2. Identifying, Treating and Preventing Family and Sexual Violence
3. Impact of Armed Conflict on Families and Children
4. Family Strengthening: A Key to the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
5. Youth Empowerment in the Prevention of Generational Child Abuse and Neglect

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October 2010

National Health Observances for October 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

National Safety Council 2010 Congress & Expo
October 3 to 8, 2010
San Diego, California

This event builds knowledge and partnerships to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the roads.

Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
"Improving Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations: A New Place on the National Health Agenda"
October 18 to 21, 2010
Baltimore, Maryland

The Seventh National Conference will highlight major policy initiatives and their implications for improving care for diverse patients and communities, including:

• The implications of health care reform for diverse populations
• How to implement new standards on culturally and linguistically appropriate services from The Joint Commission and the National Committee for Quality Assurance
• How health care organizations can respond to health IT and demographic data collection recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and federal health agencies
• Integrating consumer, patient, family, and community perspectives into these initiatives, and the demand for increased accountability, effectiveness, and transparency

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November 2010

National Health Observances for November 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting & Expo
"Social Justice: Public Health Imperative"
November 6 to 10, 2010
Denver, Colorado

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December 2010

National Health Observances for December 2010
Source: 2010 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

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