The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ally training promotes awareness of topics related to sexual and gender minorities in the workplace and results in changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions.
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With a new grant from the CDC, PHAB will be able to offer new tools and resources and will have increased capacity to support and strengthen health departments’ workforce, data modernization, and Foundational Capabilities.
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There are several of these health workforce research centers in the country, but there’s never before been one for public health until now with the establishment of the Consortium for Workforce Research in Public Health (CWORPH).
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Addressing SDOH is a priority for CDC. Authors of a new commentary in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice describe how the agency has undertaken multiple steps to ensure that efforts to address SDOH fall within CDC’s broader health equity strategy.
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In this episode of The Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick talks with JPHMP editorial board member John Auerbach about a new position he has taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Director of Intergovernmental and Strategic Affairs. JPHMP editorial board member John Auerbach has taken a new position at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The title
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends everyone 12 and older get a COVID-19 vaccine to help protect against COVID-19. Schools can play a vital role in promoting vaccination uptake. The CDC has developed resources school leaders can use to support vaccination and improve health literacy in their communities. The Public Health Communications Collaborative (PHCC) promotes the value of public
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by Vanessa Lamers and Justin Ren Contact tracing is a tried and true public health intervention that stops the spread of disease by tracking down and interviewing “contacts” of people who are infected, and preventing them from infecting others. It has been a pivotal tool in the toolbox of state, tribal, local, and territorial public health for responding to and
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Since its inception in 2013, the Practical Playbook initiative has provided tools, guidance, and resources that have helped create more than 1,000 programs and more than 600 partnerships among public health, primary care, and others to improve population health. View this new video to learn more about the impact of the initiative, a partnership between Duke University School of Medicine, the Centers for
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Dr. John Marr is an American physician, epidemiologist, and author whose professional life has concerned outbreaks of infectious disease for over 40 years. He specializes in historical epidemics (see Backstories in Epidemiology: True Medical Mysteries). We communicated with Dr. Marr by email to get his expert opinion on the spread of Novel Coronavirus (recently named COVID-19 by the World Health
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by Colleen Barbero, Lindsay K. Cloud, Lance Gable, Siobhan Gilchrist, Bethany Saxon Legal epidemiology is the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution, and prevention of disease and injury in a population. In the United States, 9 of the top 10 leading causes of death are caused by chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic obstructive lung
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