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TRAIN Learning Coordinators Explore Collaboration Opportunities

Posted in: TRAINErin Bougie

May 15, 2012

The 2012 TRAIN Affiliate Consortium (TAC) Annual Meeting, held from May 1 to May 3 in Park City and Salt Lake City, UT, was attended by 38 participants from 19 TRAIN affiliate states and 3 national organizations, the Public Health Foundation and KMi (TRAIN’s technology partner). This year’s meeting...

2012 National Health Promotion Summit Attendees Explore TRAIN

Posted in: TRAINIlya Plotkin

May 11, 2012

The 2012 National Health Promotion Summit, held on April 10-11 in Washington, DC, highlighted how the current national environment, including the Affordable Care Act and Healthy People 2020, offers opportunities to promote integrated, cross-sectoral health policies that minimize health disparities, ...

New Winnable Battle Materials Added to the PHF Bookstore

Posted in: PHF News

May 9, 2012

CDC’s Winnable Battles are public health priorities with large-scale impact on health and with known, effective strategies to address them. Each area is a leading cause of illness, injury, disability, or death, and/or represents enormous societal costs. The goal of Winnable Battles is to make signif...

PHF E-News Reader Poll: Vote Now

Posted in: PHF NewsRussell Rubin

May 7, 2012

Tell us what matters most to you by voting in our PHF E-News Reader Poll. We will use your responses and comments to provide more targeted content in upcoming issues of PHF E-News. You can subscribe to PHF E-News by entering your email address in the "Subscribe to PHF" box in the right margin of ...

2012 "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest Deadline Extended

Posted in: PHF News

May 4, 2012

Today the Public Health Foundation (PHF) announced that the deadline to enter the “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest has been extended to May 31, 2012. This contest provides an opportunity for organizations using evidence-based recommendations from the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Commun...