This week, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Well Being Trust (WBT) released results of a new analysis of mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), finding that more than 150,000 Americans died from alcohol- and drug-induced causes and suicides in 2017. This amount is more than twice…
Read More »The University of California, Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) What You Can Do Initiative has released an educational video to equip health care providers with information and skills to engage in clinical strategies for reducing firearm injury and death. According to VPRP, assessing firearm injury and death risk and discussing with patients their access…
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Office of Oral Health (OOH) Evaluation Team has announced a webinar on the OOH evaluation resource guide (ERG) and how to use the guide effectively. During the webinar, presenters will familiarize participants on why the ERG has been developed, who can use the ERG, what the ERG contains,…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) will host a webinar on Wednesday, March 13 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm on increasing local health department capacity to implement Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives. The webinar will feature local health department presentations on capacity-building activities, discussion around challenges, and peer-to-peer sharing…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of STD Prevention, has announced a funding and program opportunity for five STD clinics to form the STD Express Data Collaborative. STD express services refer to triage-based STD testing activities without a…
Read More »The 2019 CHEAC Annual Meeting will be held on October 9 – October 11 in Pasadena and will provide local health department leadership and staff throughout the state with networking and learning opportunities. This year’s conference theme is “Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure” and will once again feature expanded workshops offered to attendees by collaborating…
Read More »The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently announced a grant opportunity available to local health agencies for the 2019 Minority AIDS Initiative – Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High Risk for HIV/AIDS (MAI-High Risk Populations). The purpose of this program is to increase engagement in care for…
Read More »The National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC) will host a webinar on Friday, March 8 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm on the critical importance of upstream prevention work to more effectively combat the ongoing nationwide opioid epidemic. Presentations will cover innovative practices, including those detailed in the NIC Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook, as well as…
Read More »The 2019 CHEAC Annual Meeting will be held on October 9 – October 11 in Pasadena and will provide local health department leadership and staff throughout the state with networking and learning opportunities. This year’s conference theme is “Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure” and will include keynote sessions with guest speakers and additional workshop opportunities…
Read More »The California Legislature continues to ramp up its activities as policy and budget committee hearings are set for the coming weeks. Last Friday was the Legislature’s deadline to introduce new bills for the 2019 Legislative Session, and, in total, nearly 2,600 bills were introduced. The CHEAC Legislative Committee met last week to review the first…
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