A recording of the webinar, Evidence-Based Public Health: Identifying and Using Information Resources, presented by Hathy Simpson, Public Health Information Specialist, is now available for viewing from http://nnlm.gov/ner/training/phtraining.html under Presentations. New users must create an account in TRAIN to view the recording. Accompanying PowerPoint slides are also available.

The webinar was sponsored and coordinated by the Connecticut-Rhode Island Public Health Training Center, part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Public Health Training Centers Network.

Announcement forwarded from NNPHI e-newsletter:

National Network of Public Health Institutes Call for Proposals:
States Without an NNPHI Member

Public health institutes (PHIs) are nonprofits that improve the public’s health by fostering innovation, leveraging resources, and building partnerships across sectors. PHIs address current and emerging health issues by providing expertise in areas such as: Fiscal/Administrative Management; Population-Based Health Program Delivery; Health Policy Development, Implementation, and Evaluation; Training and Technical Assistance; Research and Evaluation; Health Information Services; Health Communications and Social Marketing and Convening/Partnering. See NNPHI’s membership categories for more information.

In August 2011, NNPHI embarked on a new set of projects that are designed to amplify PHI’s roles and impact on public health performance, policy, and evidence, as well as strengthen NNPHI’s own infrastructure and partnerships to promote PHIs as an essential component of the “new public health” system. This CFP seeks to enhance the performance of the public health system by supporting additional states with finding ways to use the PHI model to help address their pressing health challenges. The 22 states currently without a PHI (as defined by NNPHI) are eligible to apply for this opportunity (click for a map of current NNPHI Members ) . This project will fund up to two states to advance efforts to establish a PHI that meets NNPHI’s definition, with an ultimate goal of improving these states’ public health systems.

Important Dates:
May 30, 2012 (1:00-2:00PM CT): Dialogue4Health Webinar on “What can a Public Health Institute do for my Health Department” featuring additional information on the CFP opportunity).
June 6, 2012: Letters of intent are due
June 25, 2012: Deadline for full receipt of proposals
Late July 2012: Projects are selected
Project Timeline:
Selected states will be notified in late July. The grant period begins August 1, 2012 and continues through March 31, 2013.

Learn More:
Each selected state will receive $10,000. See the Call for Proposals and budget worksheet for additional details. For additional information, please contact Katie Dabdoub, NNPHI Program Coordinator, at kdabdoub@nnphi.org.

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About the National Network of Public Health Institutes
Created in 2001 as a forum for public health institutes (PHIs), today NNPHI convenes its members and partners at the local, state, and national levels in efforts to address critical health issues. NNPHI’s mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen PHIs to promote multi-sector activities resulting in measurable improvements of public health structures, systems, and outcomes. Learn more about NNPHI and its member institutes at www.nnphi.org.

The National Library of Medicine provides a People Finder to help locate your loved ones after a disaster. You can now add people and search for people affected by the Typhoon Sendong. You can also report and search for people surviving the Turkey earthquake and the Japan earthquake and tsunami.

From the NLM People Finder About Us:
All data contained on this Web site are available to the public and are searchable by all visitors to the Web site. Data are received from multiple sources: direct submissions to NLM using the “ReUnite” application or email, from the Google Person Finder, and from other organizations, as indicated on individual records. The site may not be moderated, and NLM and other contributing organizations do not review or verify the accuracy of any of the data presented on this Web site. Note that data received by direct submission to NLM may be disseminated to other agencies, institutions, and organizations assisting the effort to locate missing people,including the Google Person Finder.

Ways You Can Search:
Once you have performed a search, you may also limit your results by status, gender, and age. Status choices are missing (blue), alive and well (green), injured (red), deceased (black), found (brown) or unknown (gray). Gender choices are male, female, and other/unknown.
Age choices are 0-17, 18+, or unknown.

Please spread the word about the NLM People Finder, to help family and friends find eachother in times of natural disasters.

The Health Data Tools and Statistics page on the PHPartners.org website has been reorganized to make public health data and statistics easier to find and use.

New Public Health Data Tools and Statistics Categories:
• County and Local Health Data
• State Health Data
• Individual State Data
• National Health Data
• Global Health Data
• Statistical Reports
• Demographic Data
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Training and Education
• Health Information Technology and Standards
• Tools for Data Collection and Planning

The Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce (PHPartners) is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health science libraries. The mission of PHPartners is to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public’s health.

PHPartners.org welcomes suggestions of public health online information resources. Submit new link suggestions at http://phpartners.org/suggestlink.html.

Questions, comments, and feedback about PHPartners.org can be submitted at http://phpartners.org/about.html#Contact%20Us.

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