CCLDHE is
a professional affiliation working to protect and improve the
health of California's diverse communities by strengthening the
field of health education and promotion within the state's public
health departments.
National Health Education Week is
October 17 - October 23, 2010. Join SOPHE in promoting
health education! This year's theme is "A Tobacco Free Nation
Through Health Education." For more details about
NHEW 2010, click
here.
View First
Lady, Michelle Obama, discussing the "Let’s Move!
Childhood Obesity Prevention Campaign." To learn more
about the campaign and how your health department can get involved,
visit www.letsmove.gov/.
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here to download a free version of this application if you do not
currently have it.
Last site update: 7/15/2010
7/12/2010 | SOPHE Health Promotion Practice Journal Call for
Papers: HPP will publish a theme issue highlighting successful
technical assistance and training models to support and sustain
the reduction in tobacco use in the U.S.
The deadline for submission is September 30, 2010. Click
here for details (PDF).
7/7/2010
| The Healthy People Initiative provides a framework to identify
the most significant preventable threats to health and establishes
national goals to reduce them. Click
here to read the proposed 2020 goals and objectives.
Click
here to join the Consortium, a diverse, motivated and dedicated
group of agencies and organizations committed to working together
to help achieve Healthy People 2020 goals.
7/2/2010 | Adult Obesity Rates Increased in Most States Last
Year:
The report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation found that more than two-thirds of states
(thirty-eight) have adult obesity rates above 25 percent, whereas
in 1991 no state
had an obesity rate above 20 percent. Click
here to access the report.
6/28/2010 | New Guide
to Masters of Public Health Programspovides a frequently
updated list of accredited Masters in Public Health campus
and online programs offered in the United States. Non-accredited
programs
are not included, nor are schools which offer general healthcare
related degrees
at a masters level.
Job Listings - Updated 7/15/2010
Five (5) announcements have been added since July 15,
2010. We currently have listings in Alameda, Fresno, Sacramento,
and San Francisco counties. We also have
listings for National job opportunities
as well as fellowship and paid internships. Please click
here to learn more.
Funding Opportunities - Updated 7/15/2010
Six (6) listings have been added since July 15,
2010. Current
listings include funding in the following areas: Adolescent/Children's
Health, Advocacy / Policy, Assessment,
Cardiovascular Health, Community Health, Fitness/Nutrition/Food
Security, Geriatric Health, Health Disparities, HIV Prevention,
Substance Use Prevention, Vision Health, Women's Health, Workforce,
and
Scholarships / Fellowships / Dissertation Funding. Click
here to learn more.
Conferences / Meetings - Updated 7/15/2010 Click
here for our listing of meetings of interest to health
educators. Please click
here for
our "call
for papers and presentations"
page, last updated on 7/15/2010.
