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Briefing on Capitol Hill: Accelerating momentum to eliminate and reduce health disparities
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Capitol Hill Briefing to Eliminate Health Disparities
Thursday, December 6th, 12:15 - 2:00pm
Capitol Hill, Rayburn Building, Rm. B339
As part of Prevention Institute's continued commitment to reduce and eliminate health disparities, Executive Director, Larry Cohen, will be one of five speakers, with additional comments from Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis, to discuss the role of health care reform in the emerging social movement to reduce health disparities.
The Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF), in conjunction with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, will host Reducing Health Disparities Faster: Addressing Social Determinants of Health to build on the IAF Disparity Reducing Advances (DRA) Project, for which Prevention Institute recently authored two reports outlining promising approaches and next steps for eliminating disparities in health:
Please share these resources with others and encourage them to attend. Seating is limited. Please RSVP by Monday, December 3rd:
http://www.altfutures.com/foresight_dra_reg.asp
(703) 684-5880 ext. 18 Additional information available, click here.
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Leaders in Prevention Honored by the Field
We are honored to congratulate Larry Cohen, Prevention Institute Executive Director, on his receipt of the APHA Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section Public Service Award for outstanding dedication and leadership in injury prevention practice.
Additional congratulations to our colleagues who were also honored at awards ceremonies this month.
Marion Standish, Senior Program Officer, The California Endowment,
Catherine Cowell Award, APHA Food and Nutrition Section, for
excellence and achievement in administration, planning, mentoring, and team building in public health nutrition |
Arnell Hinkle,
Executive Director, California Adolescent Nutrition & Fitness Program (CANFit) and former Prevention Institute board member,
Mary C. Egan Award, APHA Food and Nutrition Section, for
professional contributions and outstanding services of public health nutritionists
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Brown Miller Communications, public relations agency, Merit Award for Media Relations,
Northern California Public Relations Society of America,
for work with Prevention Institute and Strategic Alliance on Where's the Fruit? |
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Vision for a Healthier America
Prevention Institute is one of over 100 signatories on the Trust for America's Health consensus document, "Our Vision for a Healthier America." The document's collective vision asserts: Every American should have the opportunity to be as healthy as he or she can be. Every community should be safe from threats to its health. And all individuals and families should have a high level of services that protect, promote, and preserve their health, regardless of who they are or where they live. To read more, click here.
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