December 7, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

ASPPH Presents, From Local Action to National Progress on 5 Major Health Challenges: A Webinar

Target Audience: Public health practitioners and faculty

Learning objectives:

Webinar participants will be able to:

• Discuss how core themes of public health, including evidence, policy, and equity are relevant to major health challenges facing the United States.
• Discuss the application of public health principles to major health challenges facing the United States, including addiction and overdose, environmental challenges, risks to adolescent health, obesity and the food system, and violence.

Description:

The November/December 2018 issue of Public Health Reports includes a special supplement entitled From Local Action to National Progress on 5 Major Health Challenges: The Bloomberg American Health Initiative. ASPPH and Public Health Reports hosted a webinar to discuss the supplement with guest editor and Dean Ellen J. MacKenzie (Johns Hopkins) and selected authors of the papers.

This supplement envisions how the field of public health can help the United States tackle addiction and overdose, environmental challenges, obesity and the food system, risks to adolescent health, and violence. It includes papers that address each of the five focus areas as well as the cross-cutting themes of equity, policy, and evidence. The supplement is sponsored by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a new $300 million effort that is seeking collaborators across the country.

The webinar includes public health perspectives on:

• Violence reduction, with Associate Professor Michele Decker, Associate Professor Holly Wilcox, and Bloomberg Professor of American Health Daniel Webster,
• The opioid epidemic, with Professor Susan Sherman and Assistant Professor Brendan Saloner
• Obesity and the food system, with Dr. Anne Barnhill
• Environmental challenges, with Professor Thomas Burke
• Adolescent disconnection, with Associate Professor Tamar Mendelson and Associate Professor Kristin Mmari

The webinar also included a discussion of public health tools with Professor Keshia Pollack and a brief summary of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative by Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement Joshua Sharfstein, the Initiative’s Director.