American Public Health Association

Public Health

Organizations

Mental Health Associations

United States

American Public Health Association

American Public Health Association v. Butz

American Association of Public Health Physicians

American Association of Public Health Dentistry

Sodium hypochlorite

Karen Silkwood

Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Kelly D. Brownell

Radium Girls

BOD bottle

African-American LGBT community

American Journal of Public Health

Microwave auditory effect

David Michaels (epidemiologist)

Water purification

Subculture

Health effects of tobacco

Cigar

Water pollution

Nutrient agar

1995 Chicago heat wave

Mixing patterns

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

1707-08 Iceland smallpox epidemic

Timeline of Savannah, Georgia

Peter Buxtun

Chlorine-releasing compounds

Peter Bryce

Air horn

New York City Subway

Stirling

Deaths in December 2014

Nursing in Japan

Will Hall (writer)

Spring Cove School District

St. James Infirmary Clinic

Protocol Wars

Tobacco politics

Mollie Woods Hare

Ken Behring

February 1909

Great Kills, Staten Island

Australian constitutional law

Arnoldo Torres

Fifth Street Historic District

Digital self-determination

Hawker (trade)

Photovoice

Cervical cancer

Human geography

Black genocide

Benjamin Franklin

Baytown, Texas

Obstetric ultrasonography

El Paso, Texas

World Organisation for Animal Health

Norovirus

Reagan-Udall Foundation

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis

Judith Vaitukaitis

APHA8

• American Public Health Association (APHA) is an organization that champions the health of all people and all communities and strengthens the public health profession. (ama-assn.org)
• Professor of Psychology Patricia Rutledge, Assistant Director of Admissions Kelsy Reisinger '12 and Associate Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Global Health Studies Sarah Conklin presented "Study drugs and academic integrity: Association between beliefs about an academic honor code and non-medical prescription drug use for academic reasons" at the recent annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). (allegheny.edu)
• NIH CEAL and various local CEAL Teams are excited to showcase their work at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Expo. (nih.gov)
• In a 2009 policy statement, the APHA defined a CHW as a frontline public health worker who either is a trusted member of the community she serves or has an unusually deep understanding of that community. (cdc.gov)
• The HOPE National Resource Center is thrilled to announce we have been awarded a grant from the American Public Health Association (APHA). (positiveexperience.org)
• promotes human health and well-being and fosters healthy and safe communities" (APHA). (nnlm.gov)
• I attended and presented at the APHA meeting in Boston last week and I've seen that each year how much geography is incorporated into public health research and work. (aag-hmgsg.org)
• So, how should we, as a group of Health Geographers, best represent ourselves to the APHA? (aag-hmgsg.org)

Centers for Diseas2

• Each fellow will spend up to one year with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working on a U.S.-focused or global public health project. (avma.org)
• Days after the deadly mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., the American Medical Association says it is adopting a policy calling gun violence in the U.S. "a public health crisis," and it says it will actively lobby Congress to overturn 20-year-old legislation blocking research on gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (sideeffectspublicmedia.org)

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• Health Data Visualization Contest 2023! (aag-hmgsg.org)

Disparities3

• Resources and tools on evidence-based interventions that can contribute to reducing health disparities and lowering cost. (cdc.gov)
• The National Institutes of Health welcomes Dr. Georges C. Benjamin as the speaker for the NIH Health Disparities Seminar Series on September 20, 2012. (nih.gov)
• He will address health disparities, safety, air quality, physical activity and access to services in relation to transportation policy. (nih.gov)

Prevention3

• A pandemic is not the time to ease up on funding for health prevention programs, said the American Heart Association, and from Tuesday, May 27 through Friday, May 29, advocates from the American Heart Association will be phoning, emailing and tweeting elected state officials to remind them of that fact. (heart.org)
• Heart Association advocates will also be asking legislators to be sure that funding for the Obesity Prevention Program and the Hypertension Program be at least maintained at $5.9 million and $692,000 respectively, as approved in the state budget. (heart.org)
• U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Consultants included a director of health education for a state department of education, a director of curriculum and instruction for a local education department, a health education teacher, a director of school health programs for a local school district, a director of a state health department, a deputy director of a local health department, and an expert in child and adolescent development. (cdc.gov)

Veterinary Medical Colleges1

• From 2007-2011, Dr. Pappaioanou was executive director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. (avma.org)

Organizations2

• The CDC Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization that connects the CDC with private-sector organizations and individuals to build public health programs. (avma.org)
• NNLM Member organizations provide health professionals and the general public with health information resources and services. (nnlm.gov)

Organization3

• Professional organization concerned with issues affecting personal and environmental health, including federal and state funding for health programs, programs related to chronic and infectious diseases, and professional education in public health. (uchicago.edu)
• If your organization is providing health information resources or services, please consider joining our Network! (nnlm.gov)
• He has been the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals, since December 2002. (nih.gov)

Academy2

• The American Academy of Pediatrics, in a recent policy statement , said the legislation has had "a chilling effect and resulted in a dearth of research on this critical topic. (sideeffectspublicmedia.org)
• American Academy of Pediatrics. (cdc.gov)

Nation's1

• The Nation's public and private schools have the capacity and responsibility to help assure that young people understand the nature of the AIDS epidemic and the specific actions they can take to prevent HIV infection, especially during their adolescence and young adulthood. (cdc.gov)

Federally funded2

• The AMA isn't the only major medical association to call for federally funded gun research. (sideeffectspublicmedia.org)
• It showcased a decade of federally funded research advances in understanding health risks, societal burden, and treatment options associated with sleep deficiency and sleep disorders in women. (nih.gov)

Institutes5

• There, she led National Institutes of Health- and CDC-funded research programs focused on surveillance for emerging zoonotic infectious diseases at the human-animal interface. (avma.org)
• The Johns Hopkins University-directed Fogarty Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program in Peru and Bolivia, funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, has spanned nearly 3 decades and provides a case study of how low-resource interventions can help meet MDGs. (ama-assn.org)
• 5 The First International Conference on Sustainable Health Development, held at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2016, found a "great need of reconsidering the role of academic public health institutes in the context of low-middle income countries to respond to the emerging challenges of public health. (ama-assn.org)
• The JHU-directed Fogarty Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program in Peru and, more recently, in Bolivia, funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provides a nearly 30-year case study of how public health schools contribute to the realization of MDGs. (ama-assn.org)
• Dietary Supplements (National Institutes of Health) convened for use in premenstrual discomfort and dysmenorrhea or climacteric (menopausal) neurovegetative symptoms. (nih.gov)

Environmental Protec1

• The Centers for Children's Environmental Health, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), serve as a national network to engage with a variety of audiences to translate the latest environmental health science into culturally appropriate messages and materials that raise environmental health literacy. (prheucsf.blog)

Medical Association2

• Schematic representation of the American Medical Association (AMA) policymaking process, as of November 2019. (nih.gov)
• Physician roles in medicine-public health collaboration: future directions of the American Medical Association. (nih.gov)

Policy2

• The Rural Health Information Hub is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Grant Number U56RH05539 (Rural Assistance Center for Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Cooperative Agreement). (ruralhealthinfo.org)
• American transportation policy has a long history of focusing more on moving many cars quickly through and between sprawling communities than on the overall health of the people who live in those communities. (nih.gov)

Sciences3

• NIEHS is committed to conducting the most rigorous research in environmental health sciences, and to communicating the results of this research to the public. (nih.gov)
• NIEHS offers a broad range of job opportunities, career enhancement programs, and research training grants and programs in environmental health sciences and administration. (nih.gov)
• The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is expanding and accelerating its contributions to scientific knowledge of human health and the environment, and to the health and well-being of people everywhere. (nih.gov)

Outcomes2

• Applied GIS leads to improved health outcomes, increased accessibility to health care, and healthier communities. (pathlms.com)
• These aspects of our built-environment have negative health outcomes contributing to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma and leading to morbidity and mortality from traffic accidents. (nih.gov)

20181

• The 2018 Research Conference on Sleep and the Health of Women was intended to sound a wakeup call throughout society about the importance of sleep for the health of women. (nih.gov)

Clinics1

• The built environment-defined as the human-made features of our communities such as buildings, public resources (libraries, clinics, and schools), land-use patterns and the transportation system-has a direct impact on human health. (nih.gov)

College of Physici1

• He is board-certified in internal medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. (nih.gov)

Decreased health risks1

• An increase in the tax will lead to decreased smoking rates - and decreased health risks. (heart.org)

Infectious2

• On retiring from the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service in 2005, she moved to the University of Minnesota School of Public Health as professor of infectious disease epidemiology, with a joint appointment in the College of Veterinary Medicine. (avma.org)
• Public health schools have a large role to play in meeting MDGs, and many are helping LMICs improve their responses to extreme hunger, maternal health, childhood mortality, and infectious diseases . (ama-assn.org)

Defines2

• The Program defines four core categories of responsibilities - for every transit agency and for their passengers - making this a true partnership for health and safety. (apta.com)
• It defines broad safety categories that every public transportation agency can meet voluntarily and in its own way. (apta.com)

Research11

• If you are giving a presentation about an environmental health topic or just looking for general information about environmental health research or the institute, this page will help. (nih.gov)
• NIEHS research uses state-of-the-art science and technology to investigate the interplay between environmental exposures, human biology, genetics, and common diseases to help prevent disease and improve human health. (nih.gov)
• Present address is Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691-4096. (avma.org)
• Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the CDC from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence and determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries," AMA President Steven Stack said in a statement. (sideeffectspublicmedia.org)
• The history of the ban on federal research on gun violence goes back to 1996 when the National Rifle Association lobbied Congress to prevent any gun research that could be interpreted as endorsing gun control. (sideeffectspublicmedia.org)
• NNLM offers funding for projects that improve access to health information, increase engagement with research and data, expand professional knowledge, and promote awareness and use of NLM resources in local communities. (nnlm.gov)
• Browse NNLM's curated collections that feature tools and programs, and informational materials from NLM, NIH, and other trusted sources of health information, research data, outreach toolkits, training opportunities, and much more. (nnlm.gov)
• The discussion panels engaged public stakeholders to identify actionable new directions and areas in which research is needed. (nih.gov)
• The conference was the result of a collaborative partnership among the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health , and the HHS Office on Women's Health , participating members of the trans NIH Sleep Research Coordinating Committee and other Federal agencies. (nih.gov)
• Dr. Benjamin will discuss emerging research on the links between transportation and health and the implications for America's most vulnerable populations. (nih.gov)
• In 2004, Dr. Li was selected as co-chair of the Pathways to Discovery program, which supports research to advance our understanding of how the building blocks of the body - genes, proteins, metabolites - function and interact via complex systems to maintain health and respond to disease. (nih.gov)

Main1

• The AMA, the largest physicians group in the U.S., says it has supported gun control since the 1980s, and as recently as 2013, the association called the uncontrolled ownership and use of firearms "a serious threat to public health" because "the weapons are one of the main causes of intentional and unintentional injuries and deaths. (sideeffectspublicmedia.org)

Maternal1

• Public health plays a direct role in 4 of the MDGs: eradicating extreme hunger and poverty, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. (ama-assn.org)

Considerations1

• Growth monitoring of preschool children : practical considerations for primary health care projects / author, Marcia Griffiths. (who.int)

Programs7

• However, we know of no comprehensive review of how global health programs at public health institutions are working towards the MDGs. (ama-assn.org)
• Gov. Cuomo gave himself the power to look back and make changes to authorized spending, and the American Heart Association wants legislators, who can disagree with any changes the governor might make, to keep the funding for these programs. (heart.org)
• International Health Programs. (who.int)
• American Public Health Association, International Health Programs. (who.int)
• Expanding primary health care from projects to programs : report from a workshop / edited by David Pyle, Edward Sabin and Patricia Martin. (who.int)
• NHANES offers a unique opportunity to estimate the prevalence of reactive serologic tests as an estimate of the prevalence of syphilis infections in the general population, to identify and confirm risk factors for syphilis, to confirm the risk for HIV infection and HIV-related neurologic disease among Americans with syphilis, and to monitor trends in prevalence as syphilis detection and treatment programs are established and expanded. (cdc.gov)
• Because AIDS is a fatal disease and because educating young people about becoming infected through sexual contact can be controversial, school systems should obtain broad community participation to ensure that school health education policies and programs to prevent the spread of AIDS are locally determined and are consistent with community values. (cdc.gov)

Risks1

• The health risks associated with a transportation system that does not focus on public health are enormous and costly, but they are not distributed equitably across the population. (nih.gov)

Care4

• Please donate today and help us push the boundaries of medicine by advancing the use of genomics in health care. (genomes2people.org)
• Health care financing in developing countries / by Dieter K. Zschock. (who.int)
• Community participation in primary health care / Patricia A. Martin. (who.int)
• This has led to the fact that many neighborhoods today are distant from basic services such as health care, schools, recreation facilities, and grocery stores. (nih.gov)

Equity2

• Join this webinar series to learn how you can apply location-based solutions to build healthy communities while advancing health equity. (pathlms.com)
• The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) describes the tool as the "first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity. (nnlm.gov)

Constraint1

• Remove constraint Subjects: American Public Health Association. (nih.gov)

Heart Disease1

• Increasing the cigarette tax could serve two purposes, said Caitlin O'Brien, JD, New York State Government Relations Director for the American Heart Association, by reducing risk factors for heart disease and stroke, and bringing needed revenue to the state coffers. (heart.org)

Literacy2

• Learn how to make a positive impact through health literacy. (nnlm.gov)
• Protecting children's environmental health requires partnerships at various levels to build the environmental health literacy of different audiences to promote action at the individual, community, and national level. (prheucsf.blog)

Native Americans1

• hepatotoxicity and an abstract5 referencing data from Actaea racemosa is indigenous to North America, a murine model of breast cancer that raised questions where it was used by Native Americans principally about the safety of black cohosh. (nih.gov)

Concern2

• Foot and ankle health among the homeless is an important public health concern. (japmaonline.org)
• Four MDGs directly concern public health, and public health schools should be involved in meeting them. (ama-assn.org)

Globally1

• Now, she and a nonprofit are teaming up to encourage veterinary careers in public health-both domestically and globally. (avma.org)

People3

• NIEHS identifies Global Environmental Health (GEH) as a part of its strategic themes, recognizing that because environmental health problems cross national boundaries, conducting studies around the world benefits not just those in areas being studied, but all people who suffer from the same or related environmental health problems. (nih.gov)
• This graph shows the total number of publications written about "American Public Health Association" by people in this website by year, and whether "American Public Health Association" was a major or minor topic of these publications. (uchicago.edu)
• Below are the most recent publications written about "American Public Health Association" by people in Profiles. (uchicago.edu)

Researchers1

• Find out about the exciting discoveries being made by NIEHS and NIEHS-supported researchers that are helping to improve health and save lives. (nih.gov)

Pandemic1

• Just prior to rejoining CDC in 2013, she was senior one-health technical adviser to the Emerging Pandemic Threats/Respond Project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, at Development Alternatives Inc. in Bethesda, Md. (avma.org)

Search1

• Results of search for 'Provider:American Public Health Association. (who.int)

Annual Meeting1

• Health Geography at the 2014 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting? (aag-hmgsg.org)

Resources1

• Based on our experience in public health, we are aware that upper-income countries' public health schools often devote educational resources to their own students and perform small-scale projects or support modest capacity building in LMICs. (ama-assn.org)

Services3

• Health and human services professionals are benefiting from insights that the power of place brings to their work. (pathlms.com)
• Because of this relationship, the CHW is able to serve as a liaison between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. (cdc.gov)
• Benjamin became secretary of health in Maryland in April 1999, following four years as its deputy secretary for public health services. (nih.gov)

Advocacy1

• A CHW also builds individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities, such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy. (cdc.gov)

Deputy Director1

• Performs the following functions for the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH): Work closely with Journal Project Manager and Deputy Director of Publications to ensure supplement issues manuscripts are produced and published on schedule. (kcsae.org)

Transit4

• The health and safety of transit passengers and employees is the most important priority for public transportation agencies. (apta.com)
• The APTA Health & Safety Commitments Program is designed to help public transit agencies put in place their own, individualized policies and practices that transit users have told us they want and expect. (apta.com)
• We want every transit agency in the country to display the HSC's "Seal of Commitment," proudly showing your riders and the public that your system is following industry-wide guidelines. (apta.com)
• Modern American residential communities are far from working centers, are often inaccessible to public transit, and tend to be unfavorable to walking and biking. (nih.gov)

Human health1

• I am thrilled that through this fund veterinarians will have support to pursue exciting opportunities at CDC to improve human health and well being, and the environment in which we all live," she said in a CDC Foundation press release. (avma.org)