PHES In the News:HIA Summer Training Course June 22-25, 2010SFDPH is excited to announce that enrollment is now open for our annual Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Practitioners Summer Training Course. The overall goal of the course is to provide current and future practitioners of HIA experience using available procedures, regulations, and tools to implement an HIA. This year’s course will be held from June 22-25, 2010 near Civic Center in San Francisco. Tackling Health Inequities through Public Health Practice textbook published February 2010A new textbook published by Oxford Press "Tackling Health Inequities through Public Health Practice: Theory to Action", includes a detailed account of the development of the Program on Health Equity and Sustainability. The book recognizes that too many of the causes of avoidable disease are still rooted in inequitable social conditions. Tackling Health Inequities includes contributions from scholars and practitioners from across the country and provides a starting point for health practitioners ready to reorient public health practice and insights about how changes in institutional objectives, organizational structure, and professional practices might address health inequities. Rajiv Bhatia, MD, DPH’s Director of Environmental Health, co-edited the text with Richard Hofrichter. SFDPH Work to Assess Health and Safety in Chinatown Restaurants Published Online February 2010SFDPH’s community-based participatory research (CBPR) to study restaurant working conditions and worker health in San Francisco's Chinatown has been published online by the peer-reviewed American Journal of Industrial Medicine. This collaborative work with University of California Berkeley School of Public Health and Labor Occupational Health Program, the Chinese Progressive Association, and UCSF School of Medicine is part of our Work Environment Program. Peer Review Session for Healthy Planning Research and Tools March 18, 2010Heather Kuiper of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health will present "Creating Healthy Places: Strategies for California's Local Health Agencies"at the next peer review session on Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 noon at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, 1390 Market Street, Suite 910. Please contact megan.wier@sfdph.org for more information on the Healthy Planning Research and Tools Peer Review Sessions or to be added to the email list.
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