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<title>ASPPH Annual Meeting</title>
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<description>November 2-4, 2013, Boston, MA. The theme for the meeting is Better Together: The Future of Academic Public Health Education. The meeting will include the third annual summit on Undergraduate Education for Public Health on Saturday, November 2.</description>

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<title>ASTHO Congratulates States for Reducing Preterm Birth Rates</title>
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<description>The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) congratulates the health agencies in Colorado, Delaware, Maine, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wyoming, each of whom will receive awards from the March of Dimes for reaching meaningful milestones in their efforts to reduce preterm births.</description>

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<title>America&apos;s 50 Healthiest Counties for Kids</title>
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<description>America&apos;s 50 Healthiest Counties for Kids, a new set of rankings by U.S. News, highlights counties that feature, among other child-friendly data, fewer infant deaths, fewer low-birth-weight babies, fewer deaths from injuries, fewer teen births and fewer children in poverty.</description>

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<title>An Introduction to Whole Community Inclusion and Community Health Resilience</title>
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<description>July 17, 2013, 2:00- 3:00 PM EDT. This webinar will explore the engagement of whole communities in public health preparedness planning.</description>

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<title>Australian-American Health Policy Fellowship</title>
<link>http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Fellowships/Australian-American-Health-Policy-Fellowships.aspx</link>
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<description>This fellowship would fund mid-career U.S. professionals to spend up to 10 months in Australia working with Australian health policy experts.</description>

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<title>CDC Launches First National Campaign to Increase Hepatitis B Testing Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders</title>
<link>http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2013/Hepatitis-B-Campaign-PressRelease.html</link>
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<description>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched Know Hepatitis B, the first national multilingual, multi-year communications campaign to increase testing for hepatitis B among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.</description>

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<title>CDC Partners with 104 Employers for National Healthy Worksite Program</title>
<link>http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0610-worksite-program.html</link>
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<description>CDC&apos;s National Healthy Worksite Program is supported through the Affordable Care Act&apos;s Prevention and Public Health Fund, and is designed to assist employers in building successful workplace wellness programs by implementing science-based disease prevention and wellness strategies to help reduce chronic diseases.</description>

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<title>CDC Releases Toolkit to Assist with Patient Notification Events after Unsafe Medical Practices</title>
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<description>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new toolkit to assist health departments and healthcare facilities with notifying patients after an infection control lapse or potential disease transmission during medical care.</description>

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<title>CDC Study: New Data Shows Americans Drinking Less Sugar-sweetened Beverages</title>
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<description>New data from CDC&apos;s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) shows that over a 12-year period, U.S. youth and adults lowered their intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) by 68 and 45 calories per day respectively.</description>

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<title>Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) Reports</title>
<link>http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/dietary-guidance/dietary-reference-intakes/dri-reports</link>
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<description>Series of reports on the dietary reference values for the intake of nutrients by Americans and Canadians.</description>

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<title>Disaster Information Specialists Meeting: Accessing Free Biomedical Literature in Disasters</title>
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<description>June 20, 2013. Claire Allen from Evidence Aid and Maria Collins from the National Library of Medicine&apos;s Emergency Access Initiative will discuss how biomedical literature can be accessed for free during disasters.</description>

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<title>Emergency Management &amp; Public Health Preparedness</title>
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<description>June 26, 2013, 1:00-2:00 PM EDT. This webinar will discuss the intersection of Emergency Management and Public Health Preparedness.</description>

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<title>Environmental Integrity Project</title>
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<description>The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) focuses on ensuring that laws designed to protect the public are enforced, helping the public access environmental data, and elevating citizens&apos; voices in the media, legislature, and environmental agencies that were established to protect them.</description>

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<title>Environmental Noise: Public Health Effects and Legal Remedies</title>
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<description>June 20, 2013, 1:00-2:00 PM. ET. This webinar explores why noise is a public health issue, which legal tools may be best suited to lower noise and minimize risk of harm, and what innovations to reduce the harmful effects of noise are currently underway.</description>

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<title>FedStats</title>
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<description>Provides links to Federal data access tools as well as statistics from more than 100 agencies.</description>

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<title>Fewer Americans Having Problems Paying Medical Bills</title>
<link>http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0604-medical-bills.html</link>
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<description>The percentage of people under age 65 in families having problems paying medical bills decreased from 21.7 percent in the first six months of 2011 to 20.3 percent in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from CDC&apos;s National Center for Health Statistics.</description>

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<title>Foodborne Outbreak Online Database (FOOD)</title>
<link>http://wwwn.cdc.gov/foodborneoutbreaks/</link>
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<description>The FOOD tool is a web-based platform for searching CDC&apos;s Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System database. FOOD provides access to national information and is intended to be used for limited descriptive summaries of outbreak data.</description>

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<title>Gastrointestinal (Enteric) Diseases from Animals</title>
<link>http://www.cdc.gov/zoonotic/gi/index.html</link>
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<description>Information on zoonotic diseases or zoonoses, diseases caused by germs (pathogens) that can be spread between animals and humans.</description>

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<title>Global Challenges and Opportunities Facing Children, Youth and Families</title>
<link>http://www.cvent.com/events/global-challenges-and-opportunities-facing-children-youth-and-families-a-conference-exploring-pressi/event-summary-6c506770dd194f159692909c84ffcb12.aspx</link>
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<description>June 19-22, 2013, Boston, MA. The conference will address three strands of importance to the global community: education, health, and human rights.</description>

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<title>Health Care Innovation Awards Round Two</title>
<link>http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&amp;oppId=234673</link>
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<description>This funding opportunity grants up to $1 billion for testing new health care improvement initiatives. CMS is including public health pillars such as prevention, wellness, comprehensive care and population health as priority areas in the funding opportunity. Letters of Intent are due June 28, 2013.</description>

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<title>Health Information Translations</title>
<link>https://www.healthinfotranslations.org/index.php</link>
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<description>Provides education resources in multiple languages for health care professionals and others to use in their communities. Resources are easy to read and culturally appropriate.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Health Literacy</title>
<link>http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html</link>
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<description>Information about health literacy including health literacy in a cultural context, the prevalence of low health literacy, and initiatives to improve patient communication.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Implementing Clinical Fall Prevention In Your Practice The STEADI Tool Kit for Health Care Providers</title>
<link>https://secure.confertel.net/tsregister.asp?course=577603</link>
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<description>June 26, 2013, 3:00-4:00 PM ET. Join this webinar to learn about the development of the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths &amp; Injuries (STEADI) Tool Kit, details of its unique resources, techniques for incorporating these resources into your practice, and financial incentives for doing so.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Incorporating Environmental Public Health Tracking into Health Impact Assessments</title>
<link>https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=cdaokf10egmt</link>
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<description>June 27, 2013, 1:00-2:15 PM, EDT. Learn how you can leverage data from the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network for health impact assessments (HIA).</description>

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<title>International 2013 Conference on Digital Disease Detection</title>
<link>http://www.healthmap.org/ddd/</link>
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<description>September 18-20, 2013, San Francisco, CA. The conference will unite innovators in information technology with public health surveillance experts to demonstrate the use of novel data sources, methods of data extraction and fusion, and their impacts on early detection of emerging infectious diseases.</description>

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<title>International Making Cities Livable: Reshaping Suburbia into Complete Healthy Communities</title>
<link>http://www.livablecities.org/conferences/50th-conference-portland</link>
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<description>June 23-27, 2013, Portland, OR. Urban designers, planners, and public officials from North America and Europe will share their vision and experience on how to shape healthy suburban communities.</description>

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<title>International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDA) 2013 Conference</title>
<link>http://www.syndromic.org/annual-conference/2013-isds-conference</link>
<guid>http://www.syndromic.org/annual-conference/2013-isds-conference</guid>

<description>December 12-13, 2013, New Orleans, LA. The theme for this year&apos;s conference- Translating Research and Surveillance into Action- highlights one of the salient topics voiced by the biosurveillance community, and will focus on strategies for incorporating the latest in biosurveillance approaches, methodologies, and results into data-driven public health practices, programs, and policies.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Menthol in Tobacco Products: What Local Health Departments Can Do</title>
<link>https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=eob8pkve19fn</link>
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<description>July 9-11, 2013, 1:00-2:00 PM EDT. During this webinar, experts from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium will discuss what local health departments can do to press the FDA to take bold action while also considering local policy options to address the public health impact of menthol in tobacco products.</description>

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<title>NACCHO &amp; CDC Communications Webinar Series</title>
<link>http://www.naccho.org/advocacy/LHDcommunications/?utm_source=MagnetMail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=hathy.simpson@umassmed.edu&amp;utm_content=2013_06_04CONNECT&amp;utm_campaign=NACCHO%20Connect,%20June%204</link>
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<description>Series of webinars through September 2013 that will help local health departments (LHDs) strengthen their communications capacity and explore marketing and branding, message clarity, new media, and evaluation.</description>

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<title>NLM Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Projects</title>
<link>http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterinfofunding.html</link>
<guid>http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterinfofunding.html</guid>

<description>Funding support for outreach and collaboration projects related to disaster health information. These projects are intended to improve disaster medicine and public health information access for health professionals, first responders, community members, and others that play a role in health-related disaster preparedness, response and recovery.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>NLM Introduces infoSIDA Web Site to Latino Community</title>
<link>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/infosida_latino.html</link>
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<description>The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world&apos;s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, has initiated an outreach effort to the Latino community for the federal Web site on AIDS, infoSIDA, a free online Spanish-language resource for HIV/AIDS information.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>National Center for Education Statistics</title>
<link>http://nces.ed.gov/</link>
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<description>The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>National Center for Healthy Housing and APHA Publish National Healthy Housing Standard to Maintain Safe and Healthy Homes</title>
<link>http://www.apha.org/about/news/pressreleases/2013/healthy+housing+standard.htm</link>
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<description>The National Center for Healthy Housing in partnership with the American Public Health Association has unveiled a new National Healthy Housing Standard. The standard is aimed at improving the health of Americans by addressing serious health and safety hazards in U.S. homes.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>National Immunization Survey (NIS)</title>
<link>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nis.htm</link>
<guid>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nis.htm</guid>

<description>The National Immunization Survey (NIS) monitors childhood immunization coverage.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Events Calendar</title>
<link>http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/pubevents/</link>
<guid>http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/pubevents/</guid>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>National Preparedness Report</title>
<link>http://www.fema.gov/national-preparedness-report</link>
<guid>http://www.fema.gov/national-preparedness-report</guid>

<description>Annual reports that summarize national progress in building, sustaining and delivering the 31 core capabilities outlined in the National Preparedness Goal.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>National Public Health Week Highlights Return on Investment</title>
<link>http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/43/5/1.3.full</link>
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<description>Public health enthusiasts from Maine to Hawaii celebrated the possibilities inherent in a strong public health system during this year&apos;s observance of National Public Health Week in April.</description>

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<title>National Survey of Early Childhood Health</title>
<link>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/slaits/nsech.htm</link>
<guid>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/slaits/nsech.htm</guid>

<description>The survey provides national baseline data on pediatric care (and its impact) from the parent&apos;s perspective. Questions focus on the delivery of pediatric care to families with children under 3 years of age and the promotion of young children&apos;s health by families in their homes.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Obama Administration Releases Final Rules On Employment-Based Wellness Programs</title>
<link>http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/05/20130529a.html</link>
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<description>The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury continued to move forward to implement the health care law, by issuing final rules on employment-based wellness programs. The final rules support workplace health promotion and prevention as a means to reduce the burden of chronic illness, improve health, and limit growth of health care costs, while ensuring that individuals are protected from unfair underwriting practices that could otherwise reduce benefits based on health status.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Older Americans, Pregnant Women Face Highest Risk from Listeria Food Poisoning</title>
<link>http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0604-listeria-poisoning.html</link>
<guid>http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0604-listeria-poisoning.html</guid>

<description>Listeria can cause serious infection in certain vulnerable groups, resulting in higher rates of hospitalization and death than most other bacteria commonly spread by contaminated food. A new Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlines the key groups particularly hard hit by listeria food.</description>

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<title>Packing Your Digital Go-Bag: Essential Disaster Health Information on Your Mobile Device</title>
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<description>June 26, 2013, 12:00 PM PT; 1:00 PM MT; 2:00 CT; 3:00 PM ET. This webinar will identify and discuss key resources that responders and disaster/emergency preparedness professionals should load on their mobile devices as part of their preparedness activities.</description>

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<title>Performance Improvement in Public Health: From Conceptualization to Implementation</title>
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<description>June 26, 2013, 3:00-4:30 PM, EDT. This webinar will include an introduction to the concept and importance of performance management and will feature the story of one health department&apos;s experience with developing a performance management system, using that system to evaluate the agency&apos;s activities, and connecting the system to quality improvement, strategic planning, and community health improvement.</description>

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<title>PhenX Toolkit</title>
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<description>The Toolkit provides standard measures related to complex diseases, phenotypic traits and environmental exposures. Use of PhenX measures facilitates combining data from a variety of studies, and makes it easy for investigators to expand a study design beyond the primary research focus.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Public Health Reports Webinar: New Organ Transplant Recommendations</title>
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<description>June 25, 2013, 1:00-2:00 PM EDT. The webinar will provide information on new recommendations to improve organ transplant recipient outcomes by reducing the risk of HIV, HBV, and HCV transmission.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health &amp; Society Scholars</title>
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<description>The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health &amp; Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation&apos;s capacity for research and leadership to address the multiple determinants of population health and contribute to policy change. The application deadline is September 20, 2013.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Safe Routes to School National Conference</title>
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<description>August 13-15, 2013, Sacramento, CA. The conference will focus on providing safe, convenient and fun opportunities for children to bike and walk to school.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>States, School Districts Help Keep Junk Foods and Sugary Drinks Out of Elementary Schools</title>
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<description>Elementary schools are less likely to sell candy, ice cream, sugary drinks, cookies, cakes, and other unhealthy snacks when states or school districts have policies that limit the sale of such items, according to a new study.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Telling your Story - The Value of Stories from the Field</title>
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<description>September 4, 2013 1:00-2:00 PM EDT. This webinar will be a panel of three local health department representatives who will tell their stories of preparedness work they are doing in their communities.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>USDA and EPA Launch U.S. Food Waste Challenge</title>
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<description>The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has launched the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, calling on others across the food chain-including producer groups, processors, manufacturers, retailers, communities, and other government agencies  to join the effort to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>United We Stand and Divided We Fall: Developing and Implementing National Guidance and Policy</title>
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<description>June 24, 2013, 1:00-2:00 PM, EDT. This webinar will describe the threat arena for biological events, highlight the joint efforts for the development of national policy and guidance, and the challenges to strike a balance of science and practical policy for the end user.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>WHO Update on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)</title>
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<description>Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a new, emerging virus that is distantly related to the virus that caused SARS. The overall number of cases is limited, but the virus causes death in about 60% of patients. So far, about 75% of the cases in Saudi Arabia have been in men and most have occurred in people with one or more major chronic conditions.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Wellness for Every Body: Training for Staff Who Support Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities</title>
<link>https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=clq7g5xlap5l</link>
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<description>June 25, 2013, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT. Learn about the Wellness for Every Body (WFEB), an online training program for direct service providers and how you can use it in your jurisdiction.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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<title>Whole Community Inclusion for Community Resilience: Focus on Older Adults</title>
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<description>August 21, 2013, 3:00-4:00 PM EDT. This webinar will explore whole community inclusion in public health preparedness planning, focusing on older adults.</description>

<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:53 EST</pubDate> 
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