OPHA Student Engagement Newsletter – Issue #5
March 24th, 2023
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Dear Friend, It’s almost Public Health Week! More on that below.
And, we have many events to help expand your capacities. You'll find all the info and registration links below.
I am looking forward to spending time at the University of Cincinnati’s (UC) Department of Environmental and Public Health Services - Social Justice and Public Health Special Interest Group mini career fair. This event will be held tomorrow (3/24) from 11:30 (am) – 1:00 (pm) at the Kehoe Auditorium Lobby in the Kettering Lab Complex. Thanks to Poojah Rachewad OPHA Campus Coordinator for arranging my participation at this event!
Also during National Public Health Week at UC, we have helped to arrange for Dr. Rosalind Moore, DNP, MSNEd, APRN.CNP, LSN, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-BC, City of Cincinnati Health Department to be a speaker on mental health on April 4th from 2:00 – 3:00 at a Gamma Rho event.
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Reminder and Registration Link
Register HERE
OPHA Communications Webinar March 30th @ 12:00 (noon)
This webinar is the second in a four-part series to help prepare Ohio MPH students to enter the ever-changing world of public health. This session will focus on communications and how public health practitioners and communications professionals need to frame their messages in an age of misinformation and disinformation (e.g., reactions to COVID-19 pandemic, vaccinations/MMR, etc.) It will also discuss best practices for pro-public health messaging development and dissemination and provide communications resources such as the publication Fighting for Public Health
Tap HERE to register for the webinar
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Thank you to all who participated in our March 1st webinar on advocacy. The session featured Aaron Ockerman, BA, Legislative Agent Association of Ohio Health Commissioners; Dustin Holfinger, BA, State Government Relations Director, American Heart Association; Angela Snyder, BA, Coordinator, Ohio Immunization Advocacy Network. The focus of the webinar was Public Health Advocacy. The feedback we received was incredibly positive. If you are interested in receiving the materials from the meeting, please just send an email to dmaywhoor@ohiopha.org. I hope you will join us on March 30, 2023, at noon for the next webinar on Communications.
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SAVE THE DATE! APRIL 21, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:00 pm. Bobbi Krabill, Chief, Center of Public Health Excellence at the Ohio Department of Health, and Kayla Hamilton, Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for Columbiana County Health District, will lead a discussion about the events in East Palestine, site of the recent train derailment, with a focus on the public health response. You won’t want to miss this virtual event! Check back here for additional details.
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Looking for an opportunity to network with the professionals and practitioners who work every day in public health jobs across Ohio? The best chance to do that will be at The Ohio Public Health Conference, Celebrating Public Health: People and Purpose. The conference will be held April 24-26,
The program always offers the latest in successful efforts to sustain and improve the public health infrastructure. The workshops and sessions can be viewed here (Note: Page 8 shows the registration fees). You’ll also have a chance to meet the students who were chosen for the Student Posters and Oral Presentations on Tuesday at 12:45 and 2:00PM
You can register for the conference HERE. Don’t delay! Registration closes April 10. There is a student rate available. Please note: you will be directed to website of the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners Hotel for both the registration and to reserve a hotel room. You will need your login ID and password. If you don’t have one, or cannot remember it from last year, you can reset both. The hotel block closes April 3!
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OPHA will hold a special celebration dinner during the conference on Tuesday evening, April 25, 2023. Register for the dinner HERE. You can download a registration form or register online! It’s easy! Even if you are not planning to attend the conference, you can still join us at the dinner! If you have any questions, please contact dwright@ohiopha.org.
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Pssst! We’re just two weeks away from National Public Health Week 2023!
To get ready for the celebration, you can:
- Spread the word about NPHW online! Download and share our social media shareables, sized for Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Share our – all available in Spanish and English!
- Enter APHA’s very first NPHW Art Contest (#NPHWArt), running March 1 - April 5. Review the contest details.
- RSVP for APHA’s many virtual events, including the kickoff forum, Student Day panel, three new continuing education webinars and more!
Find an event near you on our calendar and attend.
The NPHW and OPHA teams looks forward to celebrating NPHW 2023 with you!
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Statehouse News
We often watch for legislative action or policy changes which may not appear to directly impact public health issues but will influence the broader general community.
The train derailment in East Palestine has left the community devastated by an emergency that never should have happened, but it also leaves many public health practitioners wanting answers to policy driven questions. Here is a story that details how policy makers are reacting.
DeWine, Husted Call On Norfolk Southern Exec to Support Rail Safety Legislation
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted asked Norfolk Southern’s top executive, Alan Shaw, to endorse federal rail safety legislation sponsored by Ohio lawmakers and others in a letter sent on Tuesday, ABC6 reports.
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In The News
New CDC Report Finds Maternal Death Rates Surged during Second Year of Pandemic
A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found a 38 percent increase in maternal deaths in 2021 over 2020 – most of which are preventable, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Black women saw an increase from 55 deaths per 100,000 in 2020 to 70 deaths in 2021.
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Policy Development – From Health Policy Institute of Ohio
“For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have explored this issue through multiple advisory committees, collaborative efforts, investments, legislation and other policy changes. For example, the Ohio General Assembly passed Senate Bill 322 in 2017, which adopted recommendations from the Ohio Commission on Infant Mortality’s 2016 report and required the creation of the 2017 Social Drivers of Infant Mortality (SDOIM) report: A New Approach to Reduce Infant Mortality and Achieve Equity, which was completed by HPIO.
Infant mortality prevention efforts have largely focused on public health and healthcare interventions for pregnant women, such as safe sleep education and prenatal care access. While these efforts have likely contributed to the overall reduction in infant mortality, healthcare services alone are not enough to close gaps in birth outcomes in Ohio. Improvements in factors beyond access to care are needed to reinvigorate Ohio’s stalled progress on infant mortality reduction.
This brief, produced as a five-year follow up to HPIO’s original SDOIM report, provides guidance to policymakers and other stakeholders on how to improve community conditions and achieve birth equity…”
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Resources
As you begin your career you will be introduced to many fine groups, coalitions and organizations all working toward the same end. With this email, we want to introduce you to Ohio Department of Health’s Health Opportunity Partnerships for Equity Collaborative (CHOPE)
April CHOPE Session
Date: April 19, 2023
Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am
Topic: Health Equity, Syphilis, and Congenital Syphilis
Target audience: Community-based organizations
Location: MS Teams
Host: ODH Office of Health Opportunity
Join the next Health Opportunity Partnerships for Equity Collaborative (CHOPE) virtual session via MS Teams on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. The Ohio Department of Health Office of Health Opportunity invites you to learn more about health equity and the increase in syphilis and congenital syphilis in Ohio. A panel of Ohio Department of Health experts will discuss Ohio syphilis and congenital syphilis data; screening, prevention, and treatment initiatives; credible resources; and how you can help through community-based actions. Register to attend HERE:
Objectives:
- Increase awareness of health equity and syphilis,
- Inform about Ohio syphilis data,
- Describe social determinants of health impact on syphilis prevention,
- Identify strategies that address social determinants of health to improve syphilis health outcomes,
- Identify credible resources to share information,
- Identify community-based actions including the role of community health workers.
In preparation, …
- Learn more about how the ODH Office of Health Opportunity is working to eliminate population-level health disparities across Ohio: HERE
- Stay connected with ODH Office of Health Opportunity by subscribing to our Newsletter here
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