Big Cities Health Coalition

New webinar on messaging research for public health! Join us as we share the findings of our recent polling, which shows that city residents broadly support a public health approach to addressing drug use, homelessness, and community safety. Learn what residents believe about these issues and how you can talk persuasively about public health solutions. Panelists include: ▶ Chrissie Juliano, MPP, Executive Director, Big Cities Health Coalition ▶ Brad Finegood, MA, LMHC, Strategic Advisor, Public Health-Seattle & King County ▶ Elizabeth Green, PhD, Green, Communications Director, Big Cities Health Coalition Don’t miss out - register today! https://lnkd.in/ekSNcfda #PublicHealth #Webinar #Advocacy

Our latest blog takes a closer look at #CSTE and Big Cities Health Coalition’s 2024 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment (ECA). Learn why we’re sounding the alarm on the current state of the #epi workforce and what we need to carry out #PublicHealth essential services. As always, the lessons learned from the ECA are paramount to CSTE’s outreach and education efforts towards policymakers. For example, data from past ECAs have been shared as testimony in Congressional hearings to support greater funding for epidemiologists in public health. Read the blog here: bit.ly/4eYV0FA. #epidemiology

What are the effects of requiring pharmacists to stock #buprenorphine? Jeffrey K. H., director of population behavioral health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, was recently awarded $10,000 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to evaluate the impact of a new San Francisco law that requires retail pharmacies to stock buprenorphine. Hom and his team will conduct between 10 and 15 qualitative interviews with retail pharmacists to understand 1) how they perceive this new law and 2) what resources they believe would be beneficial in helping them comply with the law. Findings from this study may have implications for how local governments can adopt policies to normalize medication availability. Learn more ➡ https://lnkd.in/e4UTg7Tv

ASTHO’s Media Relations Toolkit provides a roadmap to equip health departments with the latest strategies for effective communication planning, navigating media engagement, and building public trust. Access now to cultivate a resilient image among the public, media, policymakers, funders, and stakeholders: https://lnkd.in/evHQgt_9. #PHIG #MediaRelations #MediaRelationsToolkit Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC State, Tribal, Local, & Territorial Support National Network of Public Health Institutes Public Health Accreditation Board

What an honor to spend time this week with some of our country's brightest young journalists at a National Press Foundation workshop. Changing the narrative about public health must involve engaging with the narrative makers. Our executive director, Chrissie Juliano, talked about what public health does (including how it's different from health care) and what we know from our recent polling research about what city residents believe about public health, structural racism, drug use, and homelessness. Thanks to NPF and their fellows for including us in this event - and to Carlos Roig for his expert partnership on this trip.

Investing in public health is a matter of health, opportunity, national security, and a strong economy. Trust for America's Health’s new report, Pathway to a Healthier America: A Blueprint for Strengthening Public Health for the Next Administration and Congress, is a roadmap for the Administration and Congress taking office in January to make needed investments in the nation’s public health system, including to modernize our country’s public health infrastructure and grow the public health workforce. Get the details ➡ https://lnkd.in/euxtMPAJ

I have good news! We join the nation in celebrating a reduction in opioid related mortality. Through Sept. 20, Cook County medical examiner's office recorded 580 deaths' in Chicago. For the same time frame in 2023, the there were 1,022 deaths' in Chicago. There was also a 23% reduction in EMS overdose responses this summer. I always attribute success to partnership, alongside 40 organizations we knocked on thousands of doors, intensified drug surveillance and testing and we saturated the most impacted neighborhoods with Narcan. This was an all hands on deck summer. We even had the Mayor packing Narcan kits. Our work is not done, we need to do more to get people into treatment, making sure that there are fewer people with substance use disorder, and ensuring that root causes are not neglected. Onwards! More details https://lnkd.in/gmQq6prG

🆕 Important reports out today from CSTE on the ongoing shortage of health detectives across the US. Our communities need people who know how to read the data to determine where health threats are arising and how best to address them. But we don’t have enough of these experts in our city and state health departments - and their numbers are about to drop even more as COVID emergency dollars end or get rescinded by Congress. Learn more below about what we can do ⬇️ #PHEP #epidemiology #PublicHealth

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is #hiring a Chief Health Equity Officer. The Chief Health Equity Officer: ▶ provides visionary leadership and strategic direction to advance health equity initiatives across the San Francisco Department of Public Health ▶ oversees the development, implementation, and evaluation of health equity focused programs and policies, ensuring alignment with the department’s mission to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes for all communities, especially underserved populations  ▶ drives change management and program design, balancing community needs with the pace of government system changes. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/dAGxB5C9 #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #Jobs

As more families are opting out of highly effective vaccines for children, in part due to the rampant misinformation being spread by a small, but loud group -- local public health departments are working overtime to contain reemerging outbreaks of infections, like measles, varicella, and pertussis in neighborhoods, schools, childcare centers, and more. This is PREVENTABLE, puts more kids at greater risk, and drains critical public health and healthcare resources. Let's reverse this trend! 🔽