[HealthyTribes] A Message from Lillian: Public Health Week

[Heiberg Holly]

Hello Grantees,
In celebration of Public Health Week, the Public Health Division has planned a wide range of events.  Please see the message from Public Health Director Lillian Shirley for more detail.
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Dear Colleagues:

This year's Public Health Week is coming up April 4-10, and this is a great opportunity for all of us to participate in the conversation about the future of public health in Oregon. You may want to attend key sessions on the State Health Improvement Plan and modernizing the public health system. The full list of events and streaming opportunities are available at http://healthoregon.org/phweek

On Monday, Dr. Katrina Hedberg will kick-off the conversation about the future of public health with a discussion of Oregon's State Health Profile<https://public.health.oregon.gov/About/Pages/HealthStatusIndicators.aspx>, which includes a broad set of indicators that offer a snapshot of the health of Oregonians. Later that morning, Sara Beaudrault will facilitate a panel of the leads for the State Health Improvement Plan<https://public.health.oregon.gov/About/Pages/HealthImprovement.aspx> (SHIP) to discuss how we will improve the health of all people in Oregon by 2020. In the evening, Dr. Russell Kirby, our keynote from University of South Florida, will discuss population health informatics potential in chronic disease prevention and the SHIP.

As you know, Oregon is modernizing its public health system<https://public.health.oregon.gov/About/TaskForce/Pages/index.aspx> to align with the current challenges to health for Oregonians. On Wednesday, Rebecca Pawlak and Sara Beaudrault will discuss the preliminary findings from the recent modernization assessment and discuss next steps in the path forward to modernizing public health. We want to make sure that we are capturing everyone's concepts and ideas for a modernized public health system, and will have a room of Hopes and Dreams to creatively engage staff in this important conversation.

To wrap-up the week, we will have an OHSU-PSU Public Health student poster showcase followed by a panel discussion on the future of the public health workforce. Danna Drum, Amanda Garcia-Snell, Karen Girard, David Howe and Collette Young will participate on this panel discussion facilitated by Kirsten Aird.

There are so many great events and activities.  I look forward to seeing you during the Public Health Week activities, and learning more about the work you do and your ideas of public health in the future.

Thank you, Lillian



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