- Today ~ Nov. 19 ~ 11 am ~ MN SRTS Network Call ~ 1-866-635-851 ~ Conference Code: 651 662 2192
- Today ~ Nov. 19 ~ 1 Day Stand Against Tobacco ~ College Campus Events
- Today ~ Nov. 19 ~ Great American Smokeout
- Tomorrow ~ Nov. 20 ~ TFC Year 4 Work plans Due
On November
16, 2015, the League of American Bicyclists announced 55 new and renewing
Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC). Fergus
Falls (Bronze) and Hennepin County (Silver) are new to the list. Minneapolis
renewed its Gold status and Grand Rapids renewed at Bronze. The League now
recognizes 17 communities in Minnesota as Bicycle Friendly. Read more...
The housing program operated by the Community Action
Partnership of Scott, Carver, and Dakota Counties provides safe and stable
housing for individuals and families who are homeless or are at risk of
becoming homeless. Thanks to recent approval from the Board of Directors, the
agency’s 41 housing units located in South St. Paul, Burnsville, and Savage
will soon be free of secondhand smoke. The policy was supported by efforts from
Dakota County Public Health Department, Live Smoke Free, and Scott County Public
Health under SHIP 3 and will protect approximately 103 residents from
secondhand smoke exposure in their homes.
Do you have a resource or success story (“gem”) to share for a future issue? Submissions for each week’s Thursday publication are due by noon every Tuesday to Health.MakingitBetter@state.mn.us or community specialists for:
Ann Zukoski, DrPH, MPH, has been named Evaluation and
Surveillance supervisor at the Office of Statewide Health Improvement
Initiatives. She starts at OSHII on Monday, Nov. 30.
A senior
research associate at Rainbow Research in Minneapolis, she has more than 20
years of experience conducting research and evaluation in community-based and
public health settings. Before joining Rainbow Research, she was a senior
researcher and faculty member in the Department of Public Health at Oregon
State University, a senior evaluation associate for the California Public
Health Institute and a senior research associate at the U.C. Berkeley School of
Public Health. Zukoski also has experience working at the program level in local public
health agencies.
She has conducted research and evaluations funded
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DHHS Office of
Population Affairs, Office of Head Start, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the California Endowment, state and county government agencies and other
foundations. She is trained in the use of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Zukoski earned her
MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her doctorate
in public health from University of California – Berkeley School of Public
Health.
We'll be taking a break next week from the log. Happy Thanksgiving!
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