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Shaping Policy for Health

Public health practitioners play a strong role in the development of health policies. Without public health policies, communities would have lower child immunizations rates, higher motor vehicle fatalities, poor drinking water and hazardous workplaces. While policy development is a core competency for public health practitioners, many lack the capacity to influence change.
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Office of Health Disparities (CDPHE)

The Office of Health Disparities serves in a coordinating, educating and capacity building role for state and local public health programs and community based organizations. Its mission: The Office of Health Disparities is a state program of multi-cultural health professionals dedicated to eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities in Colorado by fostering systems change and capacity building through multi-sectoral collaborations.
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The Practice of Making a Professional

Service learning – it is one of those things that students regularly label “resume building” with activities like alternative spring breaks or workplace internships. But for Colorado’s public health faculty and administrators, it is so much more.
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RIHEL: Advanced Leadership Training Program

The Advanced Leadership Training Program is delivered to approximately 45 health and environment professionals in the Rocky Mountain region annually. The program is designed to enhance the leadership skills of the individual participants, and to create an interdisciplinary network of leaders who are dedicated to the health and the environment of our region.
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Putting meat on the mantra: evidence-based public health for Colorado

There is a mantra in clinical medicine that includes the phrase "evidence-based".  Federal health care reform...

4 Corners thinking

Tomorrow morning I will be traveling to Durango to take part in a meeting of academicians and public health...

Obesity in Sweden

I write this note from Stockholm, where I am attending the International Congress on Obesity.  The ICO is held...

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