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Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation In late March 2016, the Public Health Foundation (PHF), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI)/Health Research...

Using The Community Guide for Community Health Improvement Initiative Kicks Off

Posted in: Community Developmentby Kathleen Amos

April 14, 2016

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide), a free resource for evidence-based recommendations and findings from the Community Preventive Services Task Force, can play a valuable role...

Shots at Pharmacies: A Growing Trend

Posted in: Community Development

January 8, 2016

Antoinette V. Barber, Director, Learning Resource Center, Public Health Foundation The Public Health Foundation (PHF) creates and supports opportunities to achieve public health and healthcare system alignment to improve community health. PHF applauds new policies that increase system collaboration for...

An Open Letter to All U.S. Healthcare Professionals: Ebola

October 6, 2014

On Monday, October 6, 2014, Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), released an open letter to all U.S. healthcare professionals regarding the current Ebola situation. Please help to distribute this letter to all healthcare professionals. To assist you in your...

Time for a Flu Vaccine: Get It and Recommend It

Posted in: Community Development, and Workforce Development

September 11, 2014

Joseph Bresee, M.D., FAAP, is Chief of the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch in the Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and is a captain in the United States Public Health Service. This Branch is responsible for conducting influenza surveillance; working to understand...

From Paper to Practice: Seeking Opportunities to Pilot New Oral Health Driver Diagram

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

August 15, 2014

In September 2013, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) funded the Public Health Foundation (PHF) to develop the Population Health Driver Diagram to Increase Use of Oral Health Care in an effort to address the Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicator, “Increase the proportion...

Keep Up the Fight Against Flu - Recommend & Offer Flu Vaccination

Posted in: Community Development, and Workforce Development

February 5, 2014

Seema Jain, MD, is a Medical Epidemiologist for the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch in the Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Jain joined the Influenza Division’s Epidemiology and...

The Evolving Public Health Environment: How Can Organizations Engage with Health Reform?

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

December 5, 2013

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Project Manager, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation The Academic Health Department (AHD) Learning Community held its third in-person meeting on November 5, 2013 at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, discussing...

Exploring Health Reform Opportunities for Academic Health Departments

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

October 1, 2013

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Project Manager, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation How can academic health departments (AHDs) play a role in health reform? That was the question tackled by the AHD Learning Community on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 in...

The "STATE" of Antibiotic Resistance

Posted in: Community Development

February 12, 2013

Ann Marie Goode, MS is a Pharm.D. Candidate at Auburn University Harrison, School of Pharmacy. Ms. Goode was also a Pharmacy Intern at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Works program in the Fall of 2012. Antibiotic resistance is considered to be one...