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CSTE Hill Update: July 2024

CSTE

The voices of those directly impacted by public health policies are crucial in shaping a healthier future for our communities. You can make a difference by reaching out (in your personal capacity) to your legislators to let them know public health is something important and valued by their constituents.

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Public Health Infrastructure Partners Launch National Implementation Center Program to Support Data Modernization 

PHAB

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided $255M in funding through the Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) for the new program, which will provide tailored support and technical implementation services to accelerate adoption of the latest health information technology standards for data exchange.

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Tribal Health Leaders Say Feds Haven’t Treated Syphilis Outbreak as a Public Health Emergency

KFF Health News

O’Connell said the ongoing outbreak is a perfect example of why staffing, funding, data access, and other resources need to be in place before an emergency develops, allowing public health agencies to respond immediately. “Because something will come next.” Sign up for its newsletters here.

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#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy

Institute of Public Health

The policy analysis outlined the current policy landscape in relation to smoking and mental ill health in the UK and Ireland. We used the READ approach * (Dalglish et al, 2020) to collate and compare relevant health policies at local and national level. Health Policy and Planning 35 (10) 1424–1431.

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Disaggregated Data Key to Tackling Low Maternal Vaccination Rates among Boston’s Black Pregnant Population

Maternal Health Task Force

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

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Hope and camaraderie are stronger than fear

Your Local Epidemiologist

One of the effects of this firestorm of destruction of public health agencies is that we are so busy dealing with the next one, we don’t have time to think about successes from yesterday. Setting fire after fire so we have to keep chasing them with no time for a break.

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Public Health Departments Face a Post-Covid Funding Crash

KFF Health News

. “You cannot hire the firefighters when the house is already burning,” said Brian Castrucci , president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation , an organization that advocates for public health policy. But in some places, the pandemic cash did little more than keep small health departments afloat.