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Cities around the world are taking meaningful action to advance health equity by designing solutions that benefit the health of people...
Mar 24, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Future of Sex Education (FoSE) Initiative, a partnership of Advocates for Youth, Answer, and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change,...
Mar 16, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Praxis Project has launched the ‘Centering Community in Public Health’ initiative. Over the past three years, Praxis...
Mar 04, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Registration for NACCHO 360 has officially opened! Join us, July 7–9 in Denver for a conference that goes beyond informatics to also...
Feb 28, 2020 | NacchoVoice
The Fenway Institute released a new report that outlines considerations for working with people who are incarcerated and identify as...
Feb 27, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-NRPA Award for Health Equity recognizes an individual, or team of no more than two...
Feb 21, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Center for Health in Public Housing is hosting a learning collaborative webinar series on “Exploring Cultural...
Feb 19, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
By putting equity at the center of municipal policies, American cities can help create a future of shared prosperity in which all can...
Jan 13, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
By Emily Yox, MPH, Global Health Program Analyst, NACCHO Each month, we will bring you a new public health book, read and reviewed by...
Nov 19, 2019 | Emily Yox
Cities around the world are taking meaningful action to advance health equity by designing solutions that benefit the health of people and our planet. Through a $3 million funding opportunity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) seeks to bring the most impactful ideas from across the globe to U.S. cities to address the intertwined issues of […]
The Future of Sex Education (FoSE) Initiative, a partnership of Advocates for Youth, Answer, and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, released the second edition of The National Sex Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K–12 to support educators in providing medically accurate, trauma-informed, inclusive sex education. The National Sex Education Standards (NSES) outline the […]
The Praxis Project has launched the ‘Centering Community in Public Health’ initiative. Over the past three years, Praxis held Learning Circles with over 100 community-based organizations to collectively tackle the challenges of advancing health justice and racial equity and to identify critical elements of authentic engagement. Basebuilding community organizers employ best practices...
Registration for NACCHO 360 has officially opened! Join us, July 7–9 in Denver for a conference that goes beyond informatics to also explore local health department information technology infrastructure and public health surveillance. NACCHO 360 is not just any other NACCHO Annual conference—for the first time ever, NACCHO Annual convenes with PHIITS: Public Health Informatics, […]
The Fenway Institute released a new report that outlines considerations for working with people who are incarcerated and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI), or gender non-conforming. The report outlines recommendations on a range of topics with an emphasis on cultural competency while working with LGBTI populations. One component of the report is […]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-NRPA Award for Health Equity recognizes an individual, or team of no more than two individuals, who has successfully implemented a systems change approach to reduce health disparities in his/her community within the past two years. The award supports RWJF’s Culture of Health initiative that seeks to ensure that everyone […]
The National Center for Health in Public Housing is hosting a learning collaborative webinar series on “Exploring Cultural Competence and Humility in the Care of HIV Patients.” This training is designed to help move organizations past cultural stereotypes and biases (e.g., based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity) to offer client-centered services with cultural humility....
By putting equity at the center of municipal policies, American cities can help create a future of shared prosperity in which all can participate and thrive. The All-In Cities Toolkit from PolicyLink offers actionable strategies that advocates and policymakers can use to advance racial equity. Each tool contains information on important policy considerations, who can implement it, […]
By Emily Yox, MPH, Global Health Program Analyst, NACCHO Each month, we will bring you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. We hope to provide a well-rounded reading list that you will find enjoyable as well as informative. December is National AIDS Awareness month.
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