Post-COVID Conditions, Modeling, Health Literacy, and Population Health Trainings
Posted in: Workforce Development
October 7, 2022
Don’t miss CDC Learning Connection’s featured courses this October. People with post-COVID conditions commonly report cardiovascular symptoms and complications. Learn how to treat these complications in Evaluating and Supporting Patients Presenting with Cardiovascular Symptoms Following COVID. Free...
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Public Health Action Needed on Alzheimer's Disease
Posted in: Workforce Development
September 19, 2022
Natalia Babenko, Public Health Foundation Internand MPH Candidate at the University of South FloridaThe COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected mortality from Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Over the first year of the pandemic, the U.S. faced a 15% increase in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease...
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Resources and Training for Health Professionals on Mpox
August 8, 2022
Vanessa Lamers, MESc, MPH, Director, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Public Health FoundationKeira Wickliffe Berger RN, MSN, MPH, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist/Humanitarian Emergencies Specialist The US has now declared mpox a Public Health Emergency, following the World Health...
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Vaccine Equity is Health Equity: Resources to Support Equitable Vaccination
Posted in: Community Development, and Workforce Development
July 13, 2022
Joanna Levine, Program Analyst, Public Health FoundationNolan Gill, Health Communications Associate, Public Health FoundationNatalia Babenko, Public Health Foundation Intern and MPH Candidate at the University of South FloridaThe COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the disparities and inequities...
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Improving Patient Confidence in Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination
Posted in: Community Development, and Workforce Development
March 14, 2022
Joanna Levine, Program Analyst, Public Health FoundationNolan Gill, Health Communications Associate, Public Health FoundationThis information was updated on May 20, 2022As part of the Public Health Foundation’s (PHF) ongoing effort to support healthcare providers and vaccination...
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Cross-Sector Collaboration for Improving the Health of Communities: You Can’t Do It Alone
Posted in: Community Development, and Performance Management and Quality Improvement
April 15, 2020
Ron Bialek and John W. Moran
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” ― Helen Keller1Improving a community’s health requires that the community’s public health department, healthcare institutions, and other community stakeholders providing health and health-related services break o...
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Competencies for Population Health Professionals Released
Posted in: Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
March 22, 2019
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
Are you passionate about population health? Are you involved in developing and implementing population health programs and services? Is community benefit work a core part of what you do? The newly released...
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Opioids: The Crisis Upon Us
Posted in: Strategic Planning, and TRAINby Ron Bialek
October 31, 2018
Ron Bialek, MPP, President, Public Health Foundation.Can you imagine the response to, “crime has been reduced in our community, so let’s cut the police department budget,” or “there hasn’t been a fire all year, let’s sell off the idle fire engines and layoff half of the fire fighters.” Yes, this is...
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Tuesday is Competency Day at APHA
Posted in: Conferences and Events, Council on Linkages, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
October 29, 2018
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
Attending this year’s American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in San Diego? Join the Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice...
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Opioid Response: A Recipe for Local, Impactful Results
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
October 2, 2018
Ron Bialek, MPP, President, Public Health Foundation.
First, the good news. Substantial federal, state, and local resources are being allocated for planning and implementing responses to the opioid crisis. For example, there are new and redirected federal funds available through the Centers for...
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