Health Equity Matters
In This Newsletter
Winter 2013 ~ Vol.2, #1
Leandris C. Liburd, PhD, MPH, MA
Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Equity, CDC/ATSDR
Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Equity, CDC/ATSDR
January 31, 2013 marked my second year in the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity! It hardly seems like 2 years have passed until I consider the work underway that is contributing to the achievement of our strategic priorities. We are preparing for the Orientation Week activities to introduce students participating in the CDC Undergraduate Public Health Summer Program (CUPS) and the James B. Ferguson Graduate Fellows to CDC and public health research and practice. We are building stronger collaborations with our colleagues in the National Center for Environmental Health and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities to raise awareness about environmental justice and health disparities among people with disabilities.
In this issue of Health Equity Matters, we feature commentaries by colleagues in those national centers, Dr. LaToria Whitehead and Dr. Vince Campbell. This year our Office will celebrate 25 years as a focal point for minority health at CDC, and we hope you will read reflections on the establishment of the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity by Dr. Rueben Warren, CDC’s first Associate Director for Minority Health and currently Director of the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. Our Health Equity Champion is Dr. Bonnie Duran, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. These and other news items in this issue of Health Equity Matters highlight the growing work of health equity at CDC, among our partners, and in the community at large.
We hope you will enjoy this issue, and your comments are always welcome! In less than a year, our readership has tripled, so please continue to share Health Equity Matters with others in your professional networks.
We welcome your comments, and encourage you to continue to circulate the newsletter among your colleagues and friends.Leandris C. Liburd, PhD, MPH, MA
Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Equity, CDC/ATSDR
Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE)
News You Can Use!
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Summer Internship coming up
We are getting ready for the 2013 CDC Undergraduate Public Health Summer Program (CUPS)/ National Undergraduate Summer Public Health Program (NUSPHP) sponsored by OMHHE. The program, which accepts up to 200 students, is intended to support participating students’ consideration of public health as a long term academic and career choice, providing interns with hands-on project-oriented assignments designed to expose them to 'real-world' public health activities and functions.
The program, now in its second year, will begin with an orientation at CDC’s main campus in Atlanta May 28-31, 2013. Students will get an overview of CDC including our priorities, current public health initiatives and programs, and will learn about current and emerging public health issues at the national level. At the end of the week, the students will move into their internship assignments. CUPS/NUSPHP has greatly benefited from the support of CDC staff and partners serving as mentors, and from the program’s grantees. For more information, visit OMHHE's Sponsored Internship & Fellowship Opportunities
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CDC Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Reverend Stephon A. Ferguson delivered the keynote address, “Breathing Life into Dr. King’s Words”, during CDC’s “Commemorative Celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Celebration of His Life and Legacy”, on January 24, 2013. CDC’s Office of Diversity Management and EEO and Blacks in Government chapter hosted the event. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington and his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which called for an end to racism in the United States and was delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
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Million Hearts™ Celebrates National Heart Month with new tools for public health professionals and the public
The Million Hearts™ initiative released the new Million Hearts™ en español
For the public health community, the campaign shares Toolkits
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March Observance Focus on Women’s Health Issues
CDC's Office of Women’s Health (OWH) helps raise awareness about issues impacting the health and safety of women and girls. OWH supports two national observances in March.
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day This day highlights the risks that HIV and AIDS pose for women and girls, is a time when organizations and communities come together to offer support, encourage discussion, and teach women and girls about prevention of HIV, the importance of getting tested, and how to live with and manage HIV and AIDS.
Women and youth at risk:- Women accounted for 20% of estimated new HIV infections in 2010 and 24% of those living with HIV infection in 2009. The 9,500 new infections among women in 2010 reflect a significant 21% decrease from the 12,000 new infections among this group in 2008.
- About two-thirds (66 percent) of those infected through heterosexual sex were women. The number of new HIV infections among females attributed to heterosexual contact decreased by 18 percent, from 9,800 in 2008 to 8,000 in 2010, largely because of a drop in new infections among black heterosexual women.
- In 2010, 1 in 4 people infected with HIV was 13 to 24 years old.
OWH also celebrates Women’s History Month throughout March with this year's theme, “Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.”
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CDC’s Bi-National Collaboration with Brazil
What can we learn from other countries on engaging the public in the development of national health disparity-reducing plans, particularly with respect to racism? An examination of this question will be one of the areas of collaboration between CDC and the Brazilian Ministry of Health as part of the U.S. Department of State led U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality (JAPER), a bi-national agreement signed in 2008 that is the first bi-national collaboration targeting racism. CDC has engaged with partners across HHS to support the JAPER by facilitating a health sub-committee. CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) coordinates the US participation in the JAPER health sub-committee.
OMHHE staff provided an overview of CDC’s involvement in JAPER at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities’ Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit, held in December 2012 in Maryland. During this event, OMHHE collaborated with the HHS Office of Minority Health and Office of Global Affairs to conduct plenary and panel presentations, which raised awareness among conference participants of the JAPER health collaboration.
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Welcome to the new Director of the Division of Community Health
Leonard Jack, Jr. PhD, MSc, joined the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) as Director, Division of Community Health, on January 14, 2012. Previously, Dr. Jack served as Associate Dean for Research; Director, Center for Minority Health, Health Disparities, Research and Education; Endowed Chair of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research, and Professor in the Division of Clinical and Administrative Sciences—College of Pharmacy and Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences—College of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University in Louisiana. In addition, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Health Promotion Practice.Leonard Jack, Jr. PhD, MSc
He currently holds adjunct appointments at the rank of Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Global and Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health at Tulane University.
Dr. Jack was with the CDC for more than 14 years, serving as a Senior Behavioral Scientist, Community Intervention Section Chief and Lead of the Applied Behavioral Research, Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Evaluation Team within the Divisions of Cancer Prevention and Control and the Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT). He has published over 90 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. His areas of research expertise include sociocultural aspects of disease management; family- and community-based research; program evaluation; psychosocial aspects of managing diabetes; men’s health; and minority health.
"The Division of Community Health has an excellent opportunity to advance both the science and practice of health equity through our plethora of funded efforts targeted at improving health at the community level. As the new Division Director of the Division of Community Health at CDC, I look forward to providing national leadership in facilitating national conversations regarding ways the Division can work with others committed to reducing health disparities and improving quality of life among all Americans," Dr. Jack said.
See the Division of Community Health (DCH): Making Healthy Living Easier website.
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New Environmental Justice Officer of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
NCEH’s Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services (EEHS) works closely with communities to reduce exposure to hazardous substances in their homes, schools, and workplaces. LaToria Whitehead, PhD, MPH, formerly of the Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, is now the Environmental Justice (EJ) Officer and Public Health Advisor working with Sharunda Buchanan, PhD, in the EEHS Office of the Director. Dr. Whitehead holds a Master in Public Health from Mercer University School of Medicine, and a PhD in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Justice at Spelman College. Her new role includes liaison with CDC working with EJ communities, advocates, and organizations and with the offices and divisions in NCEH/ATSDR. Promoting EJ strategies and identifying opportunities to provide technical assistance, outreach, education and training for EJ groups allows Dr. Whitehead to work at local, state, tribal, and national levels. See Dr. Whitehead's commentary below.
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Winter 2013 CDC/ATSDR Tribal Advisory Committee Meeting and HHS Tribal Consultation Sessions
The CDC/ATSDR Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) convened in Atlanta on February 5-7, 2013. TAC members engaged in discussion with CDC leadership and provided advice and guidance on CDC policies, programs, and activities. The TAC also heard presentations on key issues in Indian Country, including substance abuse and mental health, suicide, tribal public health winnable battles success stories, and community-based public health engagement. The next TAC meeting and CDC/ATSDR Tribal Consultation Session will be held in Indian Country in the summer of 2013. Once scheduled, information will be posted on the CDC Tribal Support website.
CDC/ATSDR will also participate in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Annual Tribal Budget Consultation and HHS Regional Tribal Consultations. The Annual Tribal Budget Consultation will take place in Washington, DC, on March 6–8, 2013. Information about the Regional Tribal Consultations will be available through the HHS Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs website.
Commentary
Vince Campbell, PhD
Including Disability at CDC
Vince Campbell, PhD, Senior Health Scientist, CDC Chief Disability OfficerNational Center on Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established an initiative in 2010 to integrate considerations for disability into the agency’s mainstream public health activities so that they would better serve needs of people with disability in the United States.
The disability inclusion initiative is based on the principle that people with disabilities are best served by public health when included in mainstream public health activities, and recognizes that appropriate accommodations must be addressed when there are barriers that limit adequate participation.
This initiative is led by the Chief Disability Officer, under the direction of the Associate Director for Program at CDC. An intra-CDC Disability Health Work Group was established in August 2010 with representation from the Centers, Institutes and Offices within the agency.
The overall mission of the disability inclusion initiative is to reduce disparities in the availability and accessibility of public health programs and services for people with functional disabilities, which are limitations in mobility, vision, hearing, cognition, expressive communication, or serious difficulty establishing or sustaining social relationships.
There are four major goals:
- To improve public health surveillance of people of all ages with disabilities in order to identify health differences and disparities by striving to include disability status in key CDC survey-based health surveillance programs;
- To improve the participation of people with disabilities in non-research program activities that are conducted by or sponsored by CDC;
- To improve the understanding of disability as a risk factor in the onset and trajectory of preventable disease, injury, and loss of function, and;
- To provide accessible health communications and messaging available to people with sensory or cognitive limitations.
Many barriers impede the participation of people with limited mobility, vision, hearing, cognition, expressive communication, or who experience serious limitations in establishing or sustaining social relationships. Environmental barriers to their participation may include physical obstacles that block entry for people who use wheelchairs, like steps instead of ramps and elevators. Barriers for people with vision or hearing impairments could include printed materials with print that is too small or not high contrast enough, or a lack of American Sign Language interpreters for those who attend meetings or visit doctors.
Other barriers to service by public health providers include surveys and other health data approaches that do not include methods for identifying people with disabilities so that health differences or disparities can be identified.
The disability inclusion initiative has achieved several key accomplishments thus far. They include adding disability status questions to the 2013 questionnaire of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; sponsoring a CDC-wide symposium on the utility of including disability status in epidemiologic research; conducting a study to determine the relevance and accessibility of recommended interventions in the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) for people with disabilities; and linking the Community Guide website to resources on making programs accessible to people with disabilities.
Read more on People with Disabilities and Public Health
LaToria Whitehead, PhD, MPH
Where We Live Significantly Affects How Long We Live
LaToria Whitehead, PhD, MPH, Environmental Justice OfficerNational Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
One cannot justifiably speak about health without speaking about the environment. The environment is a leading determinant of human health. Physical, natural, built and social environmental factors that influence the life of an individual or a community include water, air, weather, infrastructure of buildings, roads, parks, sidewalks, the aggregate of cultural and social norms, and beliefs.
Economic, social, and cultural factors can modify exposure to environmental hazards. This is a part of why environmental hazards disproportionately harm minority, low-income, and Tribal populations. For example, minorities are more likely to live in counties with particulate matter and ozone levels that exceed air quality standards. They are more likely to live in older, impoverished areas and have the highest odds of living in inadequate housing that contains toxic substances. Populations affected by the uneven distribution of environmental degradation are the same populations that also are afflicted disproportionately with chronic diseases, including asthma, obesity, and cancer.
Environmental justice (EJ), the movement working to reduce this inequality, seeks to achieve two important goals. The first goal is fair treatment, to ensure that no group of people has to deal with an unequal share of the harmful environmental effects coming from the day-to-day waste of a modern society. The second goal is meaningful involvement, to ensure that potentially affected community residents can participate in decisions about activities that will affect their environments or their health.
Environmental injustices stimulate health disparities. Residential and racial segregation, housing discrimination, exposures to pollution, and other environmental risks are distributed unequally by race and socioeconomic class. Systemic and institutional recurring issues of racism and classism continue to occur. The consequences of these recurring issues are inequalities for underserved populations that influence health disparities.
Collaborative activities and consistent dialogue at CDC on the explicit link between health disparities and environmental injustices are helping to yield new prevention strategies that mitigate these outcomes. The goal of environmental justice is an optimal quality of life for everyone.
See the recent NCEH Your Health-Your Environment Blog Post: With Health & Justice for All
Feature
Reflections on Minority Health at CDC 1988-1997
To commemorate the occasion of our 25th anniversary, we will feature some reflections of our former and current colleagues, beginning with Dr. Rueben Warren, CDC’s first Associate Director for Minority, who shares some thoughts on the establishment and accomplishments of the Office during his tenure.
Dr. Reuben Warren
Former Director, CDC's Office of Minority Health (OMH)
Former Director, CDC's Office of Minority Health (OMH)
Dr. Warren came to CDC in the summer of 1988. His appointment was historic in that it came on the heels of the release of the landmark 1985 Secretary’s Task Force Report on Black & Minority Health. Dr. Warren recalls, “In the Introduction to the 1985 Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health, then Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Margret Heckler wrote, ‘disparities have existed ever since federal record keeping began more than a generation ago…’” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded by establishing the first Office of the Associate Director for Minority Health within a federal agency in August 1988.
“Having the opportunity to be in the public health agency that focuses on health promotion and disease prevention, and being able to respond to the Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black & Minority Health” was what attracted Dr. Warren to this position. “We were the first HHS Operating Division to be able to respond to this Report,” Dr. Warren remembers proudly. Within CDC, there was a group of minority scientists and public health advisors who met with then CDC Director Dr. James Mason to explore what was needed to establish a focus on minority health in the agency. Dr. Sonja Hutchins, Senior Medical Advisor in the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, was part of this group as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer and shared, “We envisioned that there would be an Office of Minority Health that would serve as a resource to the national Centers, Institutes, and Offices (CIOs) to promote the science, training, and partnerships needed to improve minority health.” Continue to 2nd page of this Feature
Exhibition Illustrates How Design is Being Used to Transform and Save Lives
From February 4 through May 24, 2013, the David J. Sencer CDC Museum will engage designers, innovators, engineers, public health followers and urban planners alike with the traveling exhibition “Design with the Other 90%: CITIES,” a look at the most resourceful design emerging from the informal settlements (commonly referred to as slums or squatter settlements) of the world’s most crowded cities.Later in the year, the David J. Sencer CDC Museum will present, in collaboration with OMMHE, an exhibit on the evolution of minority health in the United States to coincide with the celebration of OMHHE's 25th anniversary in late September 2013.
Organized thematically around issues related to the social determinants of health, the exhibit will highlight public health challenges and achievements in reducing health disparities by CDC, other public health agencies, and community-based organizations.
Science Speaks
Selected publications from OMHHE authors:
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Ana Penman-Aguilar, PhD, MPH, (Associate Director for Science)gave a poster presentation at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
, entitled, “Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Social Determinant of Teen Childbearing in the U.S.”This study reviewed scientific literature on socioeconomic influences on teen childbearing. All studies included in the review identified at least one statistically significant association relating socioeconomic factors (e.g., neighborhood disadvantage or neighborhood-level income inequality) to teen birth.
Dr. Penman Aguilar is an author on two new published manuscripts that examine laboratory methods for determining whether semen exposure occurred during sexual activity. These methods are useful for evaluating new products for preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) – for example, among populations disproportionately affected by HIV and STIs.
Snead MC, Kourtis AP, Black CM, Mauck CK, Brown TM, Penman-Aguilar A, Melendez JH, Gallo MF, Jamison DJ, Macaluso M.Effect of topical vaginal products on the detection of prostate-specific antigen, a biomarker of semen exposure, using ABAcards.
Contraception 2012 Dec 7; pii: S0010-7824(12)00966-3. doi: 10.10167.
PMID: 23218862
Gallo MF, Snead MC, Black CM, Brown TM, Kourtis AP, Jamison DJ, Carter M, Penman-Aguilar A, Macaluso M.
Optimal methods for collecting and storing vaginal specimens for prostate-specific antigen testing in research studies.
Contraception 2012 Oct 31; pii: S0010-7824(12)00885-2. doi: 10.1016
PMID: 23121826
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Karen Bouye, MPH, MS, PhD, (Senior Advisor for Research)and Ramal Moonesinghe, PhD, (Senior Mathematical Statistician)
gave a poster presentation at the NIH 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
, entitled, “The Association between Mortality Rates and Residential Segregation among Residents in the Mississippi Delta Region.”--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CAPT Sonja Hutchins, MD, MPH, DrPH, FACPM, (Senior Medical Advisor) gave an oral presentation at the 140th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), in the APHA Science Board Session "Addressing Health Disparities with our Scientific Tools" entitled, "Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities Using a Small Sample Size".Uncommonly used epidemiological and statistical methods can further elucidate the burden of and risk factors for health disparities and identification of effective interventions and programs to eliminate health disparities. This presentation describes the use of a small sample size to estimate an intervention effect with the same certainty and reliability of effect estimation from a large sample size.
Conversations in Equity
Our blog Conversations in Equity shares and exchanges perspectives and progress in the science and practice of health equity.
See the latest post and add your comments today!
Health Equity Champion
Bonnie Duran, DrPH
Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, School of Public Health
Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, School of Public Health
We are pleased to honor Dr. Bonnie Duran as Health Equity Champion for her pioneering efforts to reorient conventional models of (western) research toward models that promote community-based participatory research, cultural humility, and indigenous ways of knowing.
I first met Dr. Duran through the Health Disparities Subcommittee to the Advisory Committee to the Director. She “rolls up her sleeves” and is actively engaged in the work of the Health Disparities Subcommittee. I recently discovered that she engages the thinking of Michel Foucault – a philosopher who is among the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, in creating research models that respect the history, culture, and traditional knowledge of American Indians. Foucault is well known for his critiques of the (western) construction of knowledge and power, and the inter-relatedness of knowledge and power. Dr. Duran has found these ideas resonate with what Tribal communities have been saying about knowledge and power, and are the foundation for transforming prevention research in Native communities.
We salute Dr. Duran and congratulate her on being a champion for the cause of health equity!
--Leandris C. Liburd
Dr. Bonnie Duran is Director of the Center for Indigenous Health Research at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI)
, and a member of the CDC Advisory Committee to the Director, Health Disparities Subcommittee. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health. Dr. Duran received her DrPH from UC-Berkeley’s School of Public Health in 1997. At the University of Washington, she teaches graduate courses in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Health Promotion/Disease Prevention and Critical Theory. She has worked in public health research, evaluation and education among Native Americans and other communities of color for over 30 years.“At IWRI’s Center for Indigenous Health Research, our goal is to work with Tribes, Native organizations and allies to design and implement culture-centered descriptive and intervention studies to bring evidence to indigenous knowledge and methods. Many present-day health disparities can be traced back through epigenetics to a ‘colonial health deficit,’ the result of colonization and its aftermath,” Dr. Duran said.
Using indigenous theories to guide her work, Dr. Duran’s research includes intervention and prevalence studies of substance abuse and other mental disorders, violence, and treatment seeking in Native communities. Currently, she is Principal Investigator of three NIH-funded studies that involve assessing alcohol and drug use and capacity at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU); assessing the barriers to and facilitators of authentic community-engaged research; and, as a conclusion, she and the research team will commence an epidemiological study of the prevalence of behavioral health problems at TCU.
For Dr. Duran, “Working in ‘Indian country’ is rewarding, with tremendous opportunity for positive change. It is rewarding because many Tribes and Native organizations believe deeply in equity, culture-centered interventions and the truth of interconnectedness,” she said.The overall aims of her research are to work with communities to design public health treatment and prevention efforts that are empowering, culture-centered, sustainable and that have maximum public health impact. “Many fundamental Native values and ideas are at the forefront of sustainability efforts and community-level wellness. Working with Indigenous Peoples also provides an opportunity for tremendous change—Native community wellness is intertwined with issues of social justice and communities are working diligently for change,” Dr. Duran said.
Dr. Duran has over 50 publications including articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and books. In her free time, she teaches mindfulness/Indigenous presence meditation.
Announcements
- Public Health Grand Rounds during Minority Health Month Infectious Disease Disparities: Use of Childhood Immunizations as a Tool to Address Health Disparities
April 16, 2013, 1:00-2:00 p.m., EST
- Sixth Health Disparities Conference
Improving Medical Effectiveness and Health Oucomes to Achieve Health Equity Through Interprofessional Collaborations
March 7-9, 2013
Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy
New Orleans, Louisiana
- 5th Annual Health Disparities Conference
March 15-16, 2013
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, New York
- 12th Native Women & Men's Wellness Conference "In Balance"
March 17-20, 2013
San Diego, California
- Women’s Health 2013 –The 21st Annual Congress
March 22-24, 2013
Washington, DC
- National Environmental Justice Conference and Training Program
April 3-5, 2013
Washington, DC
- Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, & Disability: A National Conference
April 25-26, 2013
Washington, DC
- National Hispanic Medical Association's 17th Annual Conference
April 25-28, 2013
Washington, DC
For more announcements, see the Minority Health Announcements Page
Statistics Highlight
Current Asthma Prevalent Percentages by Age, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity, United States, 2011
Data Source: CDC National Asthma Control Program.
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Trends in survival among children with Down syndrome in 10 regions of the United States
Kucik JE, Shin M, Siffel C, Marengo L, Correa A; Congenital Anomaly Multistate Prevalence and Survival Collaborative.
Pediatrics. 2013 Jan;131(1):e27-36. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-1616.
PMID:23248222
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Key Findings: Trends in survival among children with Down syndrome in 10 regions of the US
Data Source: CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
Quick Links
- CDC Vision Health Initiative (VHI) Assessing and Monitoring Disparities in Eye Health
The CDC has released a supplement in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. It is an end product of the surveillance meeting the CDC with an expert panel of 14 national and international experts, to identify action steps and priorities to strengthen national and state surveillance systems in assessing and monitoring disparities in eye health, vision loss, and access to eye care over time.
- Health, United States, 2011: In Brief
CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- CDC’s National Healthy Worksite Program
- Where in health is Disability? CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds
- School Health Index (SHI): Self-Assessment & Planning Guide 2012 CDC’s Adolescent and School Health
- 2011 American Housing Survey (AHS), Public Use File (PUF)
US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
- Clinical Quality & Performance Measures Toolkit
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
- Health Care Access & Use Among Urban American Indians & Alaska Natives
Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI)
- An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM)
- LGBT Communities & Tobacco Use
American Legacy Foundation (Legacy)
- Live Smoke Free
Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Global Directory
Sponsored by CDC’s Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW)
- Two New Toolkits
Effective Adult Learning: A Toolkit for Teaching Adults
Effective Presentations: A Toolkit for Engaging an Audience
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, University of Washington
- Why Place and Race Matter
La Importancia del Lugar de Residencia y la Raza
PolicyLink
Trivia!
Who is the Father of African American History Month?
W.E.B. Du Bois Carter G. Woodson Abraham Lincoln
1 in 4 physicians in the U.S. are foreign born, True or False?
False True
If your water supply has been contaminated, and your local health department issues a “boil-water notice” to ensure that it’s safe to drink. How long must you boil water?
1 minute 5 minutes 20 minutes
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