President Donald Trump this week announced that Alex Azar will be appointed as the next Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. Azar spent nearly a decade at pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, where he most recently served as president of U.S. operations before leaving earlier this year. Prior to his time at Eli Lilly,…
Read More »This week, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced California’s adolescent birth rate continues to decline. In 2015, there were 17.6 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19, revealing a 10 percent decrease from the 2014 rate (19.6 births) and a 62 percent decrease from the 2000 rate (46.7 births). Additionally, between 2000 and 2015,…
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) also this week announced an increase in the number of new Valley Fever cases reported from LHDs in 2017. From January 1 through October 1, 2017, 5,121 provisional cases of Valley Fever were reported throughout the state. This is an increase of 1,294 provisional cases reported during the…
Read More »The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recently launched a new interactive online resource highlighting promising community-driven approaches to advance health equity. The interactive hub is based on the report Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity and showcases examples of communities activating strategies to reduce health inequities. The resource provides actions and…
Read More »CHEAC is pleased to announce that 2018 CHEAC Annual Meeting will be held on October 17, 2018-October 19, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento! Next year will be CHEAC’s 30th Anniversary, and to celebrate, the 2018 Annual Meeting will feature expanded content areas, additional breakout sessions, and several plenary addresses. Given the expanded focus…
Read More »2018 meeting dates for the CHEAC General Membership, Executive Committee, and Small County Committee are now available. These dates have been posted on our website, and a printable document of the 2018 meeting calendar is available here.
Read More »Dialogue 4 Health have announced the remaining webinars in their Cannabis and Health webinar series, which will explore available scientific cannabis information, equitable policymaking, and the roles public health should play. The first, as indicated in our October 27 Update, will occur on Tuesday, November 14, from 10:30 am until 12:00 pm entitled “Marijuana and…
Read More »Human Impact Partners, along with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and NACCHO’s Health Equity and Social Justice Committee, are co-sponsoring a four-part webinar series to discuss local health departments’ work to advance health equity. Funded by The California Endowment, the webinar series will highlight success stories and…
Read More »The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a Real World Examples Grid as part of the Community Preventive Services Task Force’s Built Environment Recommendation to Increase Physical Activity. The document features combined built environment intervention approaches that connect activity-friendly routes to everyday destinations that are safe and convenient for people of…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently released The Changing Public Health Landscape: Findings from the 2017 Forces of Change Survey. The report assesses the impact of the economy, public health investments, and more generally, forces that affect change in LHDs throughout the country. The report is used to identify and…
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