News from GW Cancer Institute
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Did you miss our latest "Ask the Expert" series? Download the summary and learn more about health communication, campaign message design, strategies and recommended resources. The d iscussion was led by Dr. Monique Turner, an expert on campaign message design from the Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Despite advances in awareness and prevention, human papillomavirus (HPV) remains a major public health threat. We know that a strong health care provider recommendation continues to be the single most important factor in whether parents choose to vaccinate their children. Yet, many providers report not strongly recommending the vaccine and many parents report receiving little or no information about it from their child's provider. This webinar is intended to provide area health education centers, public health professionals and community-based organizations with the tools to successfully reach health care providers via social media as a strategy to improve the quality of provider HPV vaccine recommendation. Register and learn more.
Staff from the GW Cancer Institute including Director Mandi Pratt-Chapman and Research Assistant Kanako Kashima, along with colleagues from the Milken Institute School of Public Health, recently authored an article on "The Effect of Changes in Health Beliefs Among African-American and Rural White Church Congregants Enrolled in an Obesity Intervention: A Qualitative Evaluation" in the Journal of Community Health. The study found that the program successfully empowered church congregants to learn about and practice healthy eating and physical activity habits to prevent and overcome existing comorbidities associated with overweight and obesity. Read the abstract.
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On December 10 2:00 p.m. EST, the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable will be hosting a webinar to review findings from a recent report on public health efforts to increase colon cancer screening and address health disparities. Register.
Webinar: The Challenge of Numeracy: Why Simply Providing the Data is not Enough
On December 14 10:00 a.m. EST, the American Public Health Association will be hosting a webinar on the impact of low numeracy on health care consumers' abilities to use health data in meaningful ways and discuss communication strategies to overcome these barriers. Register.
On December 9 at 1:00 p.m. EST, the American Public Health Association will host a webinar on Immunization Information Systems (IIS) and how exchanging information across federal, state and local jurisdictions will lead to more effective surveillance, better immunization planning and healthier communities. Register.
On January 20, 2016 from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EST, the American Lung Association will be offering a training on its Freedom From Smoking curriculum at Sibley Memorial Hospital. The cost is $350 if offering the program to the community. Register by emailing Laura Hale at [email protected].
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