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The Michigan Public Health Week Partnership (Partnership) invites you to nominate someone for the Hometown Health Hero award. The Hometown Health Hero award is presented every year to individuals and/or organizations that have made significant and measurable contributions to preserve and/or improve the health of their community.
The 2024 award event marks the 20th anniversary of these awards and the Partnership that sponsors them. Over the last twenty years, community leaders, organizations, and individuals have been doing great things to improve the health of their communities and to increase equity in health. The Partnership wants to continue to recognize those accomplishments, but we need your help. Awardees are selected solely from nominations received. The only way for someone to receive this award is to be nominated. Submit a completed nomination form to the Partnership by email (or fax to 517-335-8392) no later than 5:00 pm, January 31. Awardees are selected solely from nominations received by the deadline.
Awards will be presented on Wednesday, April 10 at 11:30 a.m. in the Atrium of Heritage Hall in the State Capitol Building. The event is open to the public.
Beginning January 1, 2024, the CE process currently in Training and Continuing Education Online platform (TCEO) will move to CDC TRAIN. This transition will allow learners to access non-credit and for-credit educational activities on one platform. The move to one system will improve efficiency and make it easier for learners, CDC staff, and partners to offer and earn CE.
Below are key dates for this transition.
- New activities that offer CE from CDC will be listed in CDC TRAIN only beginning January 1, 2024.
- Existing activities with CE expiring in 2024 will still be listed in TCEO.
- Existing activities with CE expiring in 2025 will still be listed in TCEO but will transition to CDC TRAIN during calendar year 2024.
- Learners can access and download CE transcripts and certificates in TCEO until the end of 2025.
Instructions will be on both platforms and a learner support team will be available to answer questions. There will also be new CDC CE information and FAQs in the continuing education section of the updated TRAIN help page coming in January.
Join the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) for the launch of the INSPIRE: Readiness website and explore how it can help meet today's public health challenges. This webinar is scheduled for January 16, 2024, from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (EST).
This innovative new platform features inspiring stories, practical resources, and proven strategies for addressing persistent issues across four key areas: workforce, training and resources, equity, and data systems and management.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a concept paper on December 6 that outlines the Department’s cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare sector. The concept paper builds on the National Cybersecurity Strategy that President Biden released last year, focusing specifically on strengthening resilience for hospitals, patients, and communities threatened by cyber-attacks. The paper details four pillars for action, including publishing new voluntary healthcare-specific cybersecurity performance goals, working with Congress to develop supports and incentives for domestic hospitals to improve cybersecurity, and increasing accountability and coordination within the healthcare sector.
His Sword a Scalpel – Charles S. Tripler, MD, USA,
Monday, January 22, 2024, 7:00 – 8:00 pm (ET)
This webinar will feature a discussion with Jack Dempsey, the author of His Sword a Scalpel, the new biography of General Charles Stuart Tripler, MD. Doctor Tripler, a pioneering Michigan Civil War surgeon, played a vital role in the early American Medical Association and was instrumental in the establishment of Detroit’s Harper Hospital.
Civil War medicine is hastily labeled as “barbaric,” and this webinar aims to dispel such notions. Gain insights into Doctor Tripler’s contributions to the field, his early involvement in organized medicine, and the political challenges that hindered his career. Tripler, a prominent mid-19th-century practitioner, and a devoted member of the U.S. Army Medical Bureau was stationed in Detroit where he co-founded Harper Hospital, now part of the Detroit Medical Center, as Michigan’s first medical facility for recovering soldiers.
Presenters:
Jack Dempsey, Treasurer, Michigan Civil War Association, and award-winning author.
Matt VanAcker, Director, Michigan State Capitol Tour and Education Service
Michigan’s Malarial Past
Monday, March 18, 2024, 7:00 – 8:00 pm (ET)
The challenge of mosquitoes and malaria to early settlers of Michigan was profound. Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited Michigan in July of 1831, commented a number of times as to how burdensome the mosquitoes were. The state of Michigan was known to early 19th century Americans as an area profuse with swamps, disease, and other hardships. Malaria was so widespread throughout the region that all expected to suffer from it, and it was viewed less as a disease than simply a reality of life. During this webinar, Doctor Carl Doud, Director of Midland County Mosquito Control will discuss the history of malaria in Michigan and efforts to reduce the mosquito burden.
Presenter:
Doctor Carl Doud,
Director of Midland County Mosquito Control
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