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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But it's also ironic in that my first DC job was for a public health related group, which had an alcohol policies project, and for awhile a program on Hispanic health which included a focus on tobacco consumption. I drink very little, especially now, and I don't use illegal drugs.

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UC Davis Health Cloud Innovation Center, powered by AWS, uses generative AI to fight health misinformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci called health misinformation “the enemy of pandemic control.” In addition to harming public well-being, health misinformation has dastardly effects on the US economy.

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What We Learned After Analyzing 5 Months of Active Mobility Responses to COVID-19

The City Fix

In 2020 and into 2021, transportation agencies, companies and advocacy groups acted swiftly in the face of the unique public health crisis and disruption caused by COVID-19. They provided solutions that kept frontline workers, groceries, health services and other critical. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many aspects of our lives have been severely altered and restricted in the name of public health. A state's exercise of its police power is presumptively constitutional, especially when public health and safety are implicated. COVID-19 Pandemic. See [link] (last visited Apr. Kunkel , No.

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Launching a behavioral insights community of practice within a public agency: An interview with Melissa Leal, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment – Episode #182

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

To learn more, we are joined by Melissa Leal , a change management specialist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Related interview: CDPHE is using the Behavioral Insights Team’s EAST framework in its current project, aimed at improving the health of its employees.

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Governments Find Strength in Numbers

GovLoop

Increasingly, government leaders recognize the need to approach cybersecurity in the same way they approach public health: There must be a holistic network in which the well-being of individuals, or individual systems, depends on and benefits the well-being of others.

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Disruption and Refocusing: COVID Response and the Climate Crisis at Transforming Transportation 2021

The City Fix

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.