#medlibs #pubhealth #skystorians #histmed now’s your chance to ask the DRP about their efforts to help rescue gov data. They’ve helped/brought awareness to everything from BRFSS data to historic signs at our National Parks.🏞️

Boosting for #BookSky 📚💙 #PubHealth and #Science 🧪 feeds.

Behind the Paper: Confronting Transphobia as a Public Health Crisis in the UK This article identifies transphobia in the United Kingdom as a public health crisis, linking systemic discrimination to severe health disparities among trans, non-binary, and gender diverse people, and calls for urgent, inclusive, and coordinated public health action.

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Confronting Transphobia as a Public Health Crisis in the UK'. This article links systemic transphobia to severe health disparities for trans, non-binary & gender-diverse people—calling for urgent, inclusive, coordinated public health action. 🌈🎓 bit.ly/40enNBa #pubhealth

This thread is for #BookSky 📚💙 and 🌶️📚 and #PubHealth and journalists and Congresspeople and all of us who love other people and want them to live.

Collection Highlight: Advancing Transgender Health Equity Over the past year, the International Journal for Equity in Health has welcomed submissions focusing on Transgender Health for its special collection. In this blog, we reflect on some of the publication findings in light of Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being.

'Collection Highlight: Advancing Transgender Health Equity' reflects on key findings from its special issue on Transgender Health, aligning with SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being. Read the BMC article here➡️ bit.ly/3FHwgGg🌈🎓#pubhealth

I commented. It took 45 seconds. If you care about our fellow Americans at all, please do it!

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#PubHealth #InformedPatients #InformedConsumers

Chemical industry lobbyists will run chemical safety oversight at US EPA The Trump administration is putting lobbyists and attorneys from the petroleum and chemical industries into leadership positions at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Several of these indiv...

Chemical industry lobbyists now in charge of chemical safety oversight at US EPA

#EPA #trump #toxicchemicals #regulatorycapture #pubhealth #publichealth #EPAFacts #industryinfluence #cleanair #formaldehyde #vinylchloride #asbestos #environment

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Let's Stop Stigma Sullivan County

Interesting public health campaign focuses on stopping stigma and nonjudgmentally connecting people to harm-reduction, overdose prevention, and food security. I like the simplicity of this.

A lot of PA looks like Sullivan Cty, NY. Maybe we could learn from them.

letsstopstigma.com

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⬇️ #MedSky #Science #Research #PubHealth

#mke #milwaukee #milwaukeehealthdept #pubhealth #medsky

My own little n=1 posting same content to BS, X & Threads. Orders of magnitude differences in engagement

Threads = most w public health concern

X = mixed; ppl fighting abt seed oils/ pronouns.

We are deep into segregated media ecosystems - gonna be a huge challenge for #scicomm & #pubhealth

Thank you for hosting the #LCASummit today! Our vision of #PubHealth includes power-building with historically marginalized communities and creating space for their expertise as part of the workforce development conversation and the ecosystem of a healthy public health system

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Today we celebrate @adriennemaree who reminds us that shifting our way of being is our tangible outcome. Systems change comes from big groups making big shifts in being.

✨We aspire to make magic like hers in our workshops & facilitation work w #PubHealth!
#BlackLivesMatter "

Communicating about the COVID-19 vaccines: Guidance and sample messages for public health practitioners - Berkeley Media Studies Group The science is clear: Vaccines save lives. But despite overwhelming evidence of their effectiveness, vaccines remain a contentious issue, with municipalities across the country often receiving vocal pushback in response to their efforts to implement immunization programs. With the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the race to develop vaccines, the debate has taken […]

As localities across the US prepare to deploy the #COVID vaccine, #PubHealth needs to be ready to build trust with communities who have been harmed and excluded. @BMSG has actionable #HealthEquity tips at hand:

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✨THIS IS A HUGE WIN FOR PUBLIC HEALTH!✨

💚#SB1383 means 6 million more Californians will have access to job-protected paid family and medical leave.

@WorkFamilyCA Deep gratitude for all the work that went into this! Let's keep fighting for policies that support #PubHealth

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Join Public Health Awakened - Public Health Awakened Public Health Awakened is a national network of public health professionals organizing for health, equity, and justice. We work with social justice movements on strategic and collective action to create a world in which everyone can thrive and to resist the threats faced by communities of color and low-income communities.

+ If you're looking for more ways to build transformative grassroots power for #PublicHealth we invite you to join @PHAwakened, a network of over 2,000 #PubHealth workers mobilizing for equity and racial justice:

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Health Equity Policy Platform for COVID-19 Response and Recovery - Human Impact Partners A COVID-19 Public Health Response & Recovery Policy Platform Decades of underinvestment in our public infrastructure and neoliberal policies that gutted protections for working people, our healthcare, and our wider safety net are vividly exposing their consequences. People of color — most harshly Black, Latinx, and Native people — are […]

We need upstream policymaking with a public health lens to achieve transformative change for racial justice and #HealthNotPunishment! @CaGovernor check our policy platform for an approach to #PubHealth that confronts #RacismIsAPublicHealthCrisis

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As #PublicHealth we must focus on shifting health narratives & power to support #HealthEquity.

"Language is a public health issue – access to information is critical." @katie_balderas on the power of community partnerships to build language access policies for #PubHealth #NA360

These collaborations are crucial. #PublicHealth does not have the power to make change on its own!

Community organizers focus on the #SDOH that we as #PubHealth care about, & are important partners in advancing & winning policy changes that support #HealthEquity. #NA360

Federal unemployment payments & many eviction protections are set to expire in July. Millions face eviction, foreclosure, & homelessness.

Act now! Sign to call on governors to keep people in their homes, provide housing for those experiencing homelessness, & protect #PubHealth!

#Abolition is a vision for #PublicHealth!

For #HealthEquity, we must dismantle systems of violence & build a world where people have what they need to thrive. We'll talk about what we can do as #PubHealth to #AbolishPolice and build #HealthNotPunishment:

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What does #Abolition have to do with #PubHealth?
Join us for a talk with @Center4PE’s Rachel Herzing & learn how the movement to #AbolishPolice is a vision for #HealthEquity – and how we can support organizers & communities to advance #HealthNotPunishment

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Amid threats and political pushback, public health officials are leaving their posts An already understaffed workforce is being culled during the coronavirus pandemic.

Nationwide, #PubHealth officials are under attack.

We must stand behind & protect #PublicHealth workers acting tirelessly through #COVID19, and continue calls for investment in public health systems & policies that center #HealthEquity & #RacialJustice

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#PubHealth must use our voice & power to state unequivocally that racism & police brutality are public health crises we must urgently address.

Let's join movements—literally & figuratively—to declare together, today & always: #BlackLivesMatter

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A🧵 from our Co-Director, Lili Farhang in response: I'm all for reimagining a broader role for #PubHealth. But policing organizers' words as 'inflammatory' is just layering on more of the same old 'know it all paradigm' that public health has been accused of for decades. /

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