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Webinar Series: Communicating Climate Change as a Public Health Issue
The San Luis Obispo Public Health Department is hosting a four-part webinar series titled “Communicating Climate Change as a...
Jun 27, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
CDC Seeks Participants to Test New Lead Poisoning Prevention Resource
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking for volunteers to pilot implementation of its recently released guide...
Jun 27, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Impact of the FY18 President’s Budget on Selected Public Health Programs
With the President’s FY 2018 budget proposal looming as a serious threat to public health, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH)...
Jun 20, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO Report: Evaluation of Technical Assistance for Local Health Impact Assessments
NACCHO recently released a new report examining Health Impact Assessment (HIA) implementation practices, challenges, and gaps across...
Jun 19, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Seeking Participants: NEHA Recreational Water Health Assessment
Annually, Americans average over 300 million visits to swimming pools, waterparks, and spas, visits that also account for over 3,000...
Jun 14, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Funding Opportunity: Health Impact Assessment Grants
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, announced a new...
Jun 09, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Recently Released: Food Recovery Report
Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Natural Resources Defense Council recently released a joint report...
Jun 05, 2017 | Amy Chang
Now Available: Featured Content from 2017 Environmental Public Health Tracking...
Recorded presentations and supplementary materials from the third annual Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Virtual...
Jun 05, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Webinar Series: Communicating Climate Change as a Public Health IssueThe San Luis Obispo Public Health Department is hosting a four-part webinar series titled “Communicating Climate Change as a Public Health Issue,” starting on July 19. Attendees will hear from internationally-recognized experts and innovative on-the-ground leaders discussing a range of issues critical to public health departments as they grapple with climate change impacts with... Jun 27, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
CDC Seeks Participants to Test New Lead Poisoning Prevention ResourceThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking for volunteers to pilot implementation of its recently released guide on how to use the Pay for Success model in lead poisoning prevention programs. This is an opportunity for state and local governments to test and validate the guide for broad use across the nation. […] Jun 27, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Impact of the FY18 President’s Budget on Selected Public Health ProgramsWith the President’s FY 2018 budget proposal looming as a serious threat to public health, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released an issue brief on how the budget puts the nation’s health at risk, along with a state-by-state look at the estimated impact of the budget on public health programs. The proposed budget would […] Jun 20, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
NACCHO Report: Evaluation of Technical Assistance for Local Health Impact AssessmentsNACCHO recently released a new report examining Health Impact Assessment (HIA) implementation practices, challenges, and gaps across nine local health departments. Findings and recommendations included in this report aim to build on a 2014 evaluation and 2016 report (available at this link), which surveyed 14 local health departments receiving funding and technical assistance through the […] Jun 19, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Seeking Participants: NEHA Recreational Water Health AssessmentAnnually, Americans average over 300 million visits to swimming pools, waterparks, and spas, visits that also account for over 3,000 unintentional drownings, 4,500 chemically-related emergency room visits, and 5,000 recreational water illnesses. In an effort to improve water safety nationwide, the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is conducting an assessment of aquatic inspection... Jun 14, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Funding Opportunity: Health Impact Assessment GrantsThe Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, announced a new funding opportunity, which will award at least four, two-year grants of up to $100,000 to advance Health Impact Assessments (HIA) implementation. The grant aims to (1) support the use of HIA to improve community health […] Jun 09, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Recently Released: Food Recovery ReportHarvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Natural Resources Defense Council recently released a joint report titled, Don’t Waste, Donate: Enhancing Food Donations Through Federal Policy. The report addresses a troubling disconnect between the approximate 62.5 million tons of annual food waste in the U.S., and the 42.2 million of Americans who simultaneously face food... Jun 05, 2017 | Amy Chang |
Now Available: Featured Content from 2017 Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Virtual ConferenceRecorded presentations and supplementary materials from the third annual Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Virtual Conference are now accessible online until June 23, 2017. Organized by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Environmental Health Tracking Branch, the event took place on April 5-6, 2017... Jun 05, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
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