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PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
 It is a pleasure to greet you as the
new president of the Directors of Health Promotion and Education
(DHPE). I am honored
and humbled to serve you in such an important way. Together with
Past President Jim McVay, President-Elect Jayne Andreen and the
other members of the Board, I look forward to the opportunities and
challenges facing DHPE in 2006-2007. We have a very talented and
dedicated team working to meet and exceed your needs. The 24th National Conference
on Heath Promotion and Education in Washington, DC was awesome. The conference
mapped out an aggressive agenda for health promotion and education
that put forward policies and practices that can advance the
nation’s public health. The educational sessions and many special
activities offered something for everybody. Special thanks is extended
to the CDC, DHPE staff, Conference Planning Committee, Host
Committee and Program Committee for all of their hard
work.
Anticipation
is the word that comes to mind as we embark on a new year. The power
and potential of health promotion and education is great. DHPE
serves as an important vehicle to help us achieve our potential. I
am amazed at all of the great work that is going on with our
membership outreach activities, partnerships, special projects, and
legislative and advocacy efforts. The past year has brought
much reflection and growth as an organization. We have surveyed
member needs and wants and examined the internal and external forces
at work. With the help of a consultant, DHPE has thoroughly assessed
our mission, goals and activities. The focus has been on effective
board governance and the identification of mega-strategic issues.
Mega issues are overriding issues of strategic importance that DHPE
must address to successfully move into the future. You can view the
revisions to the DHPE Strategic Plan and the By-Laws on the soon to
be released revised website. This year we will be taking action
toward:
1)
Strengthening/expanding membership structure and
benefits;
2)
Seeking diverse and sustainable funding; and
3)
Ongoing marketing of DHPE and the function of health promotion and
education within state health departments and with state leadership
officials.
DHPE
is a dynamic organization; changing as it must to better meet the
needs of health promotion and education practitioners in our state
health departments. We need your energy, ideas and skills as we move
forward. Please
consider joining one of our committees or workgroups. DHPE has many
opportunities for professional growth and development. In
closing, I look forward to a productive year and working with you.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support of DHPE and all that you
do at the state level for our profession. Together we can make a
difference!
Sincerely,
Lavell
R. Thornton
DHPE
President
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Healthy Places Act of
2006 Introduced
The Healthy Places
Act of 2006 (H.R.
5088/S.2506), was recently introduced in the House requiring
federal agencies to create a program focusing on advancing the field
of health impact assessment.
Bill to Improve
Preparedness for and Response to Bioterrorism Introduced in the
Senate
The All-Hazards Public
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Act was recently
introduced in Senate (S. 3042) addressing response to
bioterrorism and other public health emergencies, and for other
purposes. Click
here for bill summary and status.
Appropriations
Subcommittee Approves Spending Legislation for FY
2007
The House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education voted
to approve the departments FY appropriations for FY 2007. The CDC
gets $69 million for Diabetes, $41 million for Heart Diseases and
Stroke and $11 million for PA, Obesity & Nutrition. Within the Department of
Health & Human Services, significant provisions include $100
million for PHHSBG; $700 million allocated to Maternal & Child
Health Block Grant; and $7 billion to Community Health Centers.
NEWS FROM
DHPE
New DHPE
Officers and Board Announced At Conference
The Directors of Health
Promotion and Education announced the 2006-2007
officers and board at its annual meeting held during DHPE/CDC’s
24th National Conference on Health Promotion and
Education at Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA on May 23-26,
2006. As approved by membership, Lavell Thornton, State Director at
SC Department of Health and Environmental Control was elected
President. New board
members include Jayne Andreen (AK), President-elect, Mary
Bobbitt-Cooke (NC), Secretary, Joyce Dantzler (MD), Doreleena
Sammons-Posey (NJ) and Barry Sharp (TX) as the three new
members-at-large.
Excellence
in Health Promotion and Education Awards Given at CDC/DHPE
26th Annual Conference
Each year DHPE/CDC
present awards in recognition of outstanding health education and
promotion programs, people and coalitions across the nation and its
territories. For a
complete list of winners, click
here.
New
President-elect Takes Over the Reins of DHPE Membership Services
Committee
Jayne Andreen, newly
installed as President-elect of DHPE Board of Director and former
chair of DHPE national conference planning committee is the new
Chairperson of DHPE’s
Membership Services Committee. Jayne is a proven leader
and very active in organization activities.
MEMBERS
CORNER
VOTING
MEMBERS: DHPE welcomes Tricia
Schlechte (MO); Eydie Abercrombie (AR);
ASSOCIATE
MEMBERS: DHPE
welcomes Tracy Sylven (MA); Nancy Mason (VA); Janea Snyder (AR);
Patricia Rutowski (CA); Jennifer Shires (DE); Kenis Williams (IL):
Sally Wroblewsk (TX); Santa Falcone (NM); Gary Gilmore (WI); Tammy
Griffin (MD); Christine Benally (AZ); Bernadette Alexander (CA);
Lucie Arbuthnot (ME); Laura Atkinson (OH); Carolyn Bargman (CO);
Tina Chapman (ME)Denise Driscoll (DE); Maura Hanlon (CA); Jennifer
Irvin (MO)Lola Irvin (HI); Misty Jimerson (KS); Geralyn Karl (WI);
Kara Kathol (NE); Chris Landon (CA); Sofie Lorenzo (DC); Marti
Macchi (KS); James Robinson (TX); Ann Nguyen (DC); Jelanie Phillips
(KY); Joann Sparks (UT); Kathy Spurlock (FL); Ryung Suh (VA);
Eustolia Zamora-Bonilla (CA); Amber Crist (WV); Jade Leung (MD);
William Leebel (MD); Victoria LaFror (MT); Ana Novais (RI); Charity
Holley (MD);
NEWS FROM
THE STATES AND PARTNERS
FROM THE
STATES
 Study Shows Georgians More Aware of Steps to
Live Healthier
A recent statewide survey conducted by the Marketing
Workshop Inc. and released by the Georgia Department of Human
Resources (DHR) showed that Georgians are becoming more aware
of steps to live healthier.
You can view the survey
findings in powerpoint. Also visit the Live Healthy
Georgia website for more
information.
 Healthy Arkansas - For a Better
State of
Health
Healthy
Arkansas; a successful statewide health initiative, is a
comprehensive program that identifies areas of behavioral
changes leading to healthier citizens. It aims to transform
Arkansas from one of the
unhealthiest state in the nation to that of a healthy one. Accomplishments
include implementing Arkansas’ “Clean Indoor Air Act”
which takes effect on July 21, 2006; capturing healthy information
for the whole family in a pocket-sized reference book, The
Better State of Health Guide Book and many
more.
MORE NEWS
FROM THE STATES
Florida
Department of Health Announces Funding to Local Organizations to
Promote PA
Florida Department of
Health has awarded two mini-grants to local projects to promote
physical activity and play for people with disabilities. The program is a part of the
Department’s new physical activity initiative, Physical Activity
Really Counts or PARK. Read
press release.
Pennsylvania
Department of Health Implements Injury Reporting and Intervention
System
The PA Department of
Health’s Injury Prevention Program (IPP) has been designated to lead
the Pennsylvania Injury Reporting and Intervention System
(PIRIS), a hospital-based injury surveillance and
intervention system.
Full
story
Welcome to
Connecticut’s Virtual Office of Genomics
The Connecticut
Department of Health's CT Genomics Action Plan
addresses the increasing role of genomics in disease detection,
prevention and treatment. Visit
CT Virtual Office of
Genomics.
The Arthritis
Prevention and Education Program‘s Self-Management Programs Offered
by Florida Department of Health
The Chronic Disease
Self-Management Program is offered by organizations throughout the
United
States and Internationally. Florida is
now one of the states offering the program. It has joined the
long list of U.S. states and foreign organizations program
participants. Full
story
Montana Unveils State Plan to
Prevent Obesity and Other Chronic Diseases
State officials in
Montana released a four-pronged
plan to prevent obesity and other chronic diseases. Go to http://www.dphhs.mt.gov/.
UPCOMING
STATEWIDE CONFERENCES AND PROGRAMS
Bioterrorism
Summit,
August 7-9, 2006, Lisle, IL, Illinois Department of Public
Health. Contact Division
of Health Policy at (312) 814-4730 or go to IDPH
Online.
2nd Annual NC
Clinical Laboratory Day: The Diabetes
Challenge-Diagnosis, Education and Management, August 4, 2006,
Raleigh, NC Department of Health,
http://www.ncdiabetes.org/
11th Annual
Health Summit of Minority
Communities: Embracing a Common
Destination- Improving Health Outcomes for Communities of
Color, August 16-18, Knoxville, TN,
Minority Health Summit, the State of
Tennessee. More
information.
8th Annual
Tennessee
Conference: Celebrating Health
Choices for Youth, Sept. 17-19, 2006,
Franklin,
TN, Tennessee
Department of Health.
More information
Iowa WIC
Conference, October 24-25, 2006,
West Des Moines, IA, Iowa Dept. of Health, Bureau of Nutrition &
Health Promotion, http://www.trainingresources.org/
or call (515) 309-3315.
FROM OUR
PARTNERS
Shape of the
Nation Report 2006: Status of
Physical Education in the USA
The 2006
Shape of the Nation Report was released by the National
Association for Sport and Physical Education and the American Heart
Association.
Food and
Exercise in Public Elementary Schools
The National
Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) in the Institute of Education Sciences
of U.S. Department of Education has released a report, “Calories
In, Calories Out: Food and Exercise in Public Elementary Schools,
2005; containing information on the availability of foods
outside full school meals and physical activity. Full
story
Students Vote
for their Favorite Lunches
In conjunction with
its 2006
National School Lunch Week
(NSLW), October 9-13, 2006, the School Nutrition
Association launched “Vote for School Lunch
campaign.” Starting
August 2006, kids could actually vote for their favorite school
meal entries from a selection of 5 especially popular entrées
through http://www.voteforschoollunch.com/ School Foodservice &
Nutrition magazine featured the campaign in its April issue and
can also be downloaded
Public Health Physical
Activity Group Formed
A national group of
state-based physical activity workers recently formed the
National Society of Physical Activity Practitioners in Public
Health with a major focus on physical activity as an important
health measure. Full
story
UPCOMING
EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Combating
Bioterrorism/Pandemics: Implementing Policies for
Biosecurity, July 24-26, 2006, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
E-mail mrieb@mit.edu
NACCHO Annual 2006
Conference, July 26-28, 2006,
San Antonio,
TX, National
Association of County and City Health Officials. Visit http://www.naccho.org/
ASTHO 2006 Annual
Meeting, September 12-15, 2006,
Atlanta, GA, Association of State and Territorial Health
Officials. Go to
http://www.astho.org/
80th
Annual ASHA School Health Conference, October 1-14, 2006,
St. Louis, MO, American School Health
Association. Contact
Mary Barner Ramsier at mbrasier@ashaweb.org
CDC
CORNER
New
Study Shows Lifetime Cost of Injuries in a Single Year Topping $406
billion
In
April 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released
new findings on the lifetime cost of injuries in the
U.S. in a single
year. Estimated at
$406 billion, it is made up of medical expenses and productivity
losses. The new data is
found in the book The
Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United
States. Read CDC press
release; Visit http://www.cdc.gov/injury for
more information.
CDC Releases Youth Risk
Behavior Survey
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention recently released the 2005 National Youth
Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), showing an overall decrease in
health risk behaviors among high school students since 1991, but
racial and ethnic disparities continue to be apparent.. See press
release from CDC’s Healthy Youth. For survey data and
statistics, click
here.
Analysis Tool for
Physical Education Curriculum
A Physical Education
Curriculum Analysis Tool, or PECAT which
was designed so each school
district has a complete and consistent analysis of its PE
curriculum, is now available from CDC. and can be obtained
online.
CDC’s 2006
National Health Promotion Conference, Sept. 12-14, 2006,
Atlanta,
GA, CDC
The conference theme is Innovations in Health Promotion:
New Avenues for Collaboration.
4th Annual Public Health
Information Network Conference, Sept. 25-27, 2006, CDC. Contact Barb Nichols at
(404) 639-7600 or e-mail phin2006@cdc.gov
 FOCUS ON PREVENTION RESEARCH
CENTERS
 July’s Featured
PRC: The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention (HPDP)
Celebrating
its 20th anniversary, the Center is one of the
33 CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers and also one of the
very first three (3) funded Centers. With a broad mission of
health promotion and intent to reach underserved population, it
supports a wide range of research, community partnerships,
translational activities and training programs. Full
story
Center highlights and
major
accomplishments include:
 Economic Empowerment for Improved
Health, with research project
HOPE (Health, Opportunities, Partnerships, Empowerment) as its core;
addresses the serious problem of obesity among low-income and
minority women in rural counties in NC, based on the premise that
obesity and poor health exist in the context of social determinants
such as education and employment. More
The RTI - UNC
Center of Excellence in Health Promotion continues to assess the
needs of researchers and practitioners and respond with issue briefs
on such topics as cost effectiveness analysis, return on investment
for worksite health promotion and social costs associated with
smoking and obesity.
 Worksite Health
Promotion focuses on WAY to
Health, a CDC-funded intervention study designed to compare the
effects of three state-of-the art- worksite interventions in 17 NC
community colleges.
More
Translating
Research into Practice, undertaken by the
Center for Excellence for Training and Research Translation bridges
the gap between research and public health practice emphasizing
nutrition, PA and risk factors of obesity. More
Tackling Policy
and Environmental Change to Promote Health, is carried out by
NC Physical Activity Policy Research Center which develops
physical activity policy research agenda; NAPP
SACC (Nutrition and Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care
(in pdf), a collaborative effort between HPDP and NC
Department of Public Health to develop and test an intervention
in child care centers (in pdf); and Move More Scholars
Institute, a conference that The Get Kids In Action Partnership
and the NC Division of Public Health collaborated to develop the
inaugural Move More Scholars Institute: NC’s Course for Physical
Activity Professionals. More
The Center also laid out
its Goals for Upcoming Academic Year, which includes Global
Health research and support skills and Social
Entrepreneurship.
MORE NEWS AND
INFORMATION
AIDS: 25
Years Later ----- (1981 – 2006)
For
25 years, people have died of AIDS and since 1981, AIDS claimed the
lives of 25 million people. Dr. Stacey Vlahakis, an
infectious disease specialist and AIDS expert from Mayo Clinic
answers questions on the state of AIDS and if we have made progress
in 25 years. Full
story
New
Vaccine for Preventing Cervical Cancer Approved by FDA
The
Food and Drug Administration announced its recent approval of
Gardasil, the first vaccine developed to prevent cancer and other
female diseases caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). See FDA
News.
Wendy’s
Switching to Healthier Cooking Oil
MSNBC
News Services reports that Wendy’s, the third largest burger chain
will be frying French fries and breaded chicken items with
non-hydrogenated oil, continues its shift to healthier menu
selections. Full
story
ABOUT THIS
NEWSLETTER
The Directors of Health
Promotion and Education (DHPE) is a 501(C)(3) association based in
Washington,
DC and is an affiliate
of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
(ASTHO). DHPE is
organized specifically to provide leadership in health promotion,
programming, practice, training, technical assistance and policy
developments. DHPE is funded primarily
through cooperative agreement # CU 012359, “Development and Support
of Core Public Health Functions Related to Health Promotion and
Education.”, coordinated by the Division of Adult and Community
Health (DACH) of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). DHPE’s “The Voice” is
supported by this cooperative agreement.
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accuracy, timeliness or completeness of such information. Therefore, any references to
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