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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

From the first article: Alcohol killed 1,547 people statewide in 2022 — fewer than the 1,799 who died of overdoses. This table from the first article lists the leading causes of death in Colorado as of 2022. But it's a major oversight in a city like DC, where addiction is high, for example 461 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022.

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The people have spoken: Announcing the winner of our 2023 People’s Choice Award

Partnership for Public Service

On July 20, the Partnership for Public Service announced that, after weeks of voting, Megan Meacham, Allison Hutchings, Sarah O’Donnell and the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program Team won the 2023 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals® People’s Choice Award. More than 75,000 votes were cast to determine this year’s winner.

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Our Top Local Government Conferences of 2023

zencity

We’re finalizing our calendar and highlighting the conferences we’re most excited for in 2023. Local government officials have just encountered one of the biggest public health emergencies of their careers. Over the course of 2022, the Zencity team attended nearly 70 government conferences across 22 states. Let us know!

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Vaccine Policy in a Post-COVID World

Policy Chats

In this episode, Associate Professor Katie Attwell talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about vaccine hesitancy, mandates, and public health policy. million dollar project funded by the Medical Research Future Fund of the Australian Government.

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Improving public health through data exchange

AWS Public Sector Blog

As public health resources shift away from the pandemic response, jurisdictions now seek ways to modernize their public health infrastructure to avoid previous challenges such as data fragmentation, incompleteness of health data, and lack of interoperability.

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Katie Attwell: Vaccine Policy in a Post-COVID World

Policy Chats

In this episode, Associate Professor Katie Attwell talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about vaccine hesitancy, mandates, and public health policy. million dollar project funded by the Medical Research Future Fund of the Australian Government.

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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. In February 2022, New York Gov.