News

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Five Ways TRAIN Can Help with Accreditation Improving Antibiotic Use in an Age of Emerging Resistance Future of Public Health Award Recipients Use QI to Tackle Winnable Battles Webinar Series: Using Evidenc...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (June 2013)

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF News, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

June 27, 2013

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Share Your Thoughts on the National Public Health Improvement Initiative How Can You Support the Development of Successful Academic Health Departments? How Does Your Organization Handle Change? Identify and Track Y...

WalkWorks: Using Evidence-Based Strategies to Address Winnable Battles

Posted in: Community Development, PHF News, and TRAIN

June 6, 2013

The University of Pittsburgh Center for Public Health Practice, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to implement WalkWorks, a community-based public health program to increase physical activity in six Western...

May 2013 Hot off the Press

Posted in: Community Development, PHF News, and TRAIN

May 7, 2013

Public Health Foundation's Hot off the Press PHF Helps You "Get Moving" During National Physical Fitness and Sports Month May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. The President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition is challenging everyone to pick up a new activity or sport, and...

April 2013 Hot off the Press

Posted in: Community Development, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and PHF News

April 9, 2013

Public Health Foundation's Hot off the Press PHF Supports National Public Health Week Public Health Foundation (PHF) is pleased to support National Public Health Week (April 1-7, 2013), a national public health education campaign sponsored by the American Public Health Association. PHF off...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (January 2013)

Posted in: PHF News

January 3, 2013

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Build and Strengthen Your Academic Health Department in Today's Evolving Public Health Environment Share Your Health Department's Performance Management and Quality Improvement Success Story Use The Community Gui...

Winning the Battle Against Tobacco Use and Exposure with The Community Guide

Posted in: PHF News, and Workforce Development

January 2, 2013

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to promote Winnable Battles, public health priorities with large-scale impact on health and with known, effective strategies to address them. Tobacco use, an identified Winnable Battle, is a major...

TRAIN Spotlight: Chronic Diseases

December 12, 2012

Chronic diseases (those of long duration and generally slow progression, as defined by the World Health Organization) are by far the leading cause of death in the world, representing 63% of all annual deaths.1 In particular, four health risk behaviors—lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, tobacco...

CDC Reports Progress, Innovations, and Challenges in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Posted in: PHF News

July 31, 2012

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a press release on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 on Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) research and analysis that was presented at the XIX International AIDS Conference on July 22nd - 27th held in Washington, DC. The research gave insight...