354: Biden’s Opioid Message, Georgetown’s New Health Dean
02/09/23 • 5 min
Richa Ranade, ASTHO's Senior Director for Overdose Prevention, says it's encouraging to hear President Joe Biden prioritize solutions to the opioid epidemic in his State of the Union address; Dr. Christopher King, the first dean of Georgetown University’s new School of Health, will use his lived experience to raise up the next generation of diverse public health leaders; and Rad Cunningham, Senior Epidemiologist at the Washington State Department of Health, offers a simple strategy for departments looking to connect climate change and health equity approaches.
ASTHO News Release: ASTHO Welcomes President Biden’s Call to Beat the Opioid and Overdose Epidemic
Richa Ranade, ASTHO's Senior Director for Overdose Prevention, says it's encouraging to hear President Joe Biden prioritize solutions to the opioid epidemic in his State of the Union address; Dr. Christopher King, the first dean of Georgetown University’s new School of Health, will use his lived experience to raise up the next generation of diverse public health leaders; and Rad Cunningham, Senior Epidemiologist at the Washington State Department of Health, offers a simple strategy for departments looking to connect climate change and health equity approaches.
ASTHO News Release: ASTHO Welcomes President Biden’s Call to Beat the Opioid and Overdose Epidemic
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353: Community Vaccination Push, Campaign for Safer Communities
Ernia Hughes, Director of the Office of Health Center Investment Oversight with the Health Resources and Services Administration, says her organization hopes to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates with grants to more than 1,400 community health centers nationwide; Sana Chehimi, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Prevention Institute, explains how a new campaign was designed to offer new solutions to violence that plagues many communities; Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Alaska Chief Medical Officer, calls tuberculosis a "silent endemic disease that continues to linger"; and ASTHO is recruiting for several open positions.
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