Friends and colleagues, All of us have been touched by the recent violence in Newtown, CT. There has been for me, however, a sense of shared community across the nation and a true “knowing” that I’m part of something greater than myself. There is a force that unites us that is more powerful than anything else […]
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EWSE Meeting Reflections: Adaptive Leadership
By Carol Brady, Executive Director of the Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition, Inc. What a great kick-off for the Kellogg grant and Every Woman Southeast! There are so many opportunities and synergies with other initiatives focusing on poor outcomes among women and children in our region — ASTHO, AMCHP HRSA, CDC Consumer Work Group. Our […]
EWSE Meeting Reflections: Meeting of the Minds!
By Monica Murphy, MPH, Public Health Prevention Specialist, Metro Public Health Department Attending the EWSE Regional Meeting May 22-23, 2012, was a great experience. It was truly “a meeting of the minds!” Representatives from each of the 9 member states were in attendance and full of energy and enthusiasm. The two day meeting was jammed […]
EWSE Meeting Reflections: A Student’s Perspective
By Jessye Brick, Graduate Student at the UNC School of Public Health I chose to study public health because I was shocked that the United States, despite having higher health expenditures, lags behind most other developed countries in birth outcomes. Throughout my first year of courses we frequently discussed why this may be and how the […]