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Monroe County- Smoke-free Housing Implementation Success Story

When it comes to public health, community partnership is everything. Funding comes and goes, but the partnerships you create helps...

Feb 12, 2018 | Alyson Jordan

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    Learning to Become a Disease Detective: My Role as a Disease Intervention Specialist...

    As a Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS), I’m often the first person responding to a patient’s sexual health crisis. In addition to...

    Feb 10, 2016 | Alyson Jordan

    • Monroe County- Smoke-free Housing Implementation Success Story

    When it comes to public health, community partnership is everything. Funding comes and goes, but the partnerships you create helps make it possible to sustain program missions even when the funds disappear.

    Feb 12, 2018 | Alyson Jordan

    Infectious Disease, Workforce Development

    Learning to Become a Disease Detective: My Role as a Disease Intervention Specialist within a Local Health Department

    As a Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS), I’m often the first person responding to a patient’s sexual health crisis. In addition to doing the background work of keeping statistics and ensuring each patient is properly treated for their sexually transmitted infection, a large part of my job is educating and interviewing patients, confidentially notifying partners, and providing linkages to...

    Feb 10, 2016 | Alyson Jordan

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    Community health workers meet people where they are to build trust, elevate voices,...

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    Aug 10, 2023 | Dominique Baradaran, MSM, Interim Chief of Community Health, Oklahoma City- County Health Department

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    Library Serves as a Community Hub for Health Improvement Opportunities

    Through the power of partnerships, the Catawba County Library System has found inspiration, resources and an enhanced role as a...

    May 30, 2023 | Erica Derr, Collaborative Services Librarian, Catawba County Library System

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    How We Got Our Shot Together

    Madison County Public Health Department in New York State held a health fair and concert event in an effort to vaccinate residents...

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