Mobilizing Community Partners to Action: How a Small Vector Control Program Tackled Zika
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
October 11, 2016
Cheryl Clay is the Public Health Senior Environmentalist for the Madison County Health Department, where her core responsibility is managing the vector control program for the City of Huntsville. Her vector control program emphasizes public education and source reduction as the most effective means...
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Improving Access to Physical Activity: Taking on Health Disparities
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Strategic Planning
July 22, 2016
Jessica Montana, MPH, CHES is the REACH Program Coordinator at the Cabarrus Health Alliance in Kannapolis, NC.
In Cabarrus County, NC, our public health and other community leaders understand that health disparities – often along racial and ethnic lines – are a genuine and formidable barrier to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The National Public Health Improvement Initiative at State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Levels
Posted in: Infrastructure
May 30, 2013
Dr. Judith A. Monroe, Director, Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The public health system faces sustained financial challenges—challenges compounded by an aging population,...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Wins RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
February 25, 2013
Congratulations to the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts on winning a Roadmaps to Health Prize from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The prize, announced on February 20, 2013, honors outstanding community partnerships which are helping people live healthier lives. From more than 160 applicants, six...
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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...
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Getting Started with Quality Improvement: Questions and Answers about the District of Columbia Department of Health Experience
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
July 27, 2012
The National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII), funded through the Prevention and Public Health Fund of the Affordable Care Act, has allowed the District of Columbia Department of Health (DC DOH) and 73 other state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments to make fundamental changes...
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