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White House honors NPHIC member Darlene Foote
Foote, Director of Communications for Cobb & Douglas Public Health in Marietta, GA, is one of 16 Champions honored at the White House Jan. 19. She accepted the award on behalf of the organization for a program that communicates emergency preparedness messages to elementary students. The program takes children through hands-on activities that include proper hand washing techniques, tips on preparing for emergencies, fighting flu viruses, and destroying anthrax by “splatting” Annie Anthrax. An estimated 20,000 2nd and 4th graders will experience the program this year. Read her blog post on the White House website to learn more.
 
CDC-NPHIC-CALL

 February 9

  2 pm EST   
The Joint Information Center experience, real and virtual
When multiple public agencies respond to an emergency, the efficient flow of accurate information flow is critical to public health and safety. That’s why we have JICs. Tune in Feb. 9 for a special CDC-NPHIC call to learn how CDC structures its scalable JIC, who the core participants are and how information is cleared and issued. We’ll also hear the experience NPHIC member Katherine Gunby had working in JICs that were part of the response to Hurricane Gustav and a virtual JIC employed during flooding in Mississippi. You’ll also learn about a great new JIC training program delivered by NPHIC members Kerry Shearer and Karen Terrill and their partners in the Media Survival Group. Check your inbox for call in details.
 
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January edition of NPHIC newsletter now available
NPHIC serves up a jam-packed newsletter to start the new year. Articles cover our new CDC cooperative agreement, new board members and staff members, what’s trending today, our certification initiative, a new IPad app, cancer cluster toolkit, H3N2 in Iowa, immunization partnership and much more. “The NPHIC team should really be proud of this newsletter,” remarked the CDC’s Demetrius Parker. “It is chock full of informative and relevant information – a must read by any PH communicator. This one should be submitted for a communication award!” Click here to see for yourself.
 
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Colorado chooses to fight its own ‘Winnable Battles’
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has identified its own “Winnable Battles” where progress can be made in the next three-to-five years. Many of Colorado’s 10 Winnable Battles align with the CDC’s Winnable Battles. Colorado’s winnable battles are clean air, clean water, infectious disease prevention, injury prevention, mental health and substance abuse, obesity, oral health, safe food, tobacco, and unintended pregnancy. Click here to read more.
 
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Jan. 26 webcast on unsafe injections toolkit now online
During this webcast, NPHIC members learned about soon-to-be released toolkit designed to help stop transmission of disease by unsafe injections. The toolkit offers “one-stop shopping” to get the word to healthcare providers that it is critical to adhere to the infection control practice of “One Needle, One Syringe, Only One Time.”  Click here for the webcast.
 
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Tools to gear up for Public Health Week
It’s not too early to prepare for National Public Health Week, slated for April 2-8. NPHW has been sponsored since its inception in 1995 by the American Public Health Association. This year’s theme is “A Healthier America Begins Today: Join the Movement.” A tool kit and a media kit have been developed for NPHW. They contain fact sheets, suggested community events, legislative information, sample tweets, op-ed pieces, etc. Both kits are available by clicking here.
 
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When it comes to Twitter, are you a gold medalist?
Are you tweeting right now about the interesting news you’re reading from the NPHIC News Highlights? If so, you’ll want to read “5 Tricks for Twitter Power Users” and make your Twitter time more effective. Follow this link.
 
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Public speaking: Is your body saying what you’re saying?
Whether you’re speaking to hundreds at a community meeting, a dozen at a news conference or a handful at your weekly staff gathering, don’t let your body send signals that don’t match your message. Check out these slides that illustrate “The Wrong Body Language.” 
 
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PHP Summit: Sustaining preparedness in an economic crisis
The 2012 Public Health Preparedness Summit will focus on how to move forward in an environment of limited resources. Public health professionals from across the nation will present new research, new tools, and new practices to build and sustain a progressive public health preparedness infrastructure at the local, state, tribal, and territorial levels. Join your colleagues at the Summit in Anaheim, CA, Feb. 21-24, and take the opportunity to regroup, refocus, and refresh your approach to public health preparedness! For more information and registration information, click here.
 

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