/ en /news/2021-04/college-health-and-human-services-celebrates-national-public-health-week <span>The College of Health and Human Services Celebrates National Public Health Week</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/376" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">mthomp7</span></span> <span>Fri, 04/02/2021 - 16:46</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><div alt="This is public health" data-embed-button="media_browser" data-entity-embed-display="media_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{"image_style":"medium","image_link":"","svg_render_as_image":1,"svg_attributes":{"width":"","height":""}}" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="c3ad5a4c-c415-4497-9e30-d2795dd3c0c4" title="This is public health" class="align-right embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/styles/medium/public/2021-04/This%20is%20Public%20Health.JPG?itok=0VyyTnC7" alt="This is public health" title="This is public health" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <h3><span><span><strong><span><span>Join</span></span></strong><strong> </strong><strong><span><span>the College of Health and Human Services </span></span></strong><strong><span><span>to Celebrate National Public Health Week April 5-11</span></span></strong></span></span></h3> <p> </p> <h4><span><span><span><span>#MakingHealthVisible | #NPHW2021 | #MasonCHHS | #ThisIsPublicHealth</span></span></span></span></h4> <p> </p> <h4><span><span><strong><span><span>Events</span></span></strong></span></span></h4> <div alt="Shivani" data-embed-button="media_browser" data-entity-embed-display="media_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{"image_style":"thumbnail","image_link":"","svg_render_as_image":1,"svg_attributes":{"width":"","height":""}}" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="4a4d5b4c-be5c-421d-8aae-24ead5c57085" title="Shivani Patel" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2021-04/shivani_a._patel.jpg?itok=6LyESFvD" alt="Shivani" title="Shivani Patel" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><strong><span><span><span>Monday, April 5, 12 - 1 pm</span></span></span><br /><span><span><span>5th Annual Conversations & Connections</span></span></span></strong></span></span><br /><span><span><span><span><span>CHHS and Kaiser Permanente Thrive present the 5th Annual Conversations & Connections event.  Dr. Shivani Patel presents on the current </span></span></span><span><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/healthdisparities" target="_blank"><span><span>#healthdisparities</span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> facing our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. This event is offered in celebration of </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/NationalPublicHealthWeek" target="_blank"><span><span>#NationalPublicHealthWeek</span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/WhyPublicHealthMatters" target="_blank"><span><span>#WhyPublicHealthMatters</span></span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/NPHW" target="_blank"><span><span>#NPHW</span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Register today at <a href="http://ow.ly/RcG950E5fx4"><span>http://ow.ly/RcG950E5fx4</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <div alt="LaVeist" data-embed-button="media_browser" data-entity-embed-display="media_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{"image_style":"thumbnail","image_link":"","svg_render_as_image":1,"svg_attributes":{"width":"","height":""}}" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="1b019751-29ad-4c6c-a66e-dc9d27699803" title="Thomas LaVeist, PhD" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2021-04/TAL%20Preferred%20Headshot.jpg?itok=twG8nYiu" alt="LaVeist" title="Thomas LaVeist, PhD" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><strong><span><span><span>Wednesday, April 7, 12 pm - 1 </span></span></span></strong><strong><span><span><span>pm</span></span></span></strong><br /><span><span><strong><span><span>My Journey to Discover Why Disparities Exist ... and What to Do About Them</span></span></strong><br /><strong><strong><span>Thomas LaVeist, PhD, MA</span></strong></strong></span></span><br /><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity</span></span></span></span></span></span> Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine<br /><a href="https://chhs.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9TPvANwxjwIClIW" target="_blank" title="RSVP Here"><span>RSVP</span></a><br /><a href="https://chhs.gmu.edu/about/events/2021-deans-seminar-series-live-broadcast" title="https://chhs.gmu.edu/about/events/2021-deans-seminar-series-live-broadcast"><span>Access the live event here</span></a></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h4><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Student Spotlight</span></span></strong></span></span></span></h4> <div alt="Tatum McKay" data-embed-button="media_browser" data-entity-embed-display="media_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{"image_style":"thumbnail","image_link":"","svg_render_as_image":1,"svg_attributes":{"width":"","height":""}}" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="042d23c9-72ea-4f1a-bf0b-054f831ce8fa" title="Tatum McKay" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2021-04/Tatum%20McKay.jpeg?itok=MqGK0jq7" alt="Tatum McKay" title="Tatum McKay" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><strong><span>Tatum McKay is Fighting a Pandemic with Data</span></strong><br /><span>Master of Public Health student works with leading experts to analyze data from the COVID Health Check</span><span><span>✓</span></span><span>™</span></span></span></span></p> <p>Tatum McKay, Master of Public Health student at the College of Health and Human Services, is helping fight a pandemic with data. McKay has spent this semester working as a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) with Dr. Amira Roess. Her primary work has been analyzing data from Mason’s COVID Health Check✓™ to provide insight into testing rates and how to best mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on campus. <a href="https://chhs.gmu.edu/news/2021-04/fighting-pandemic-data">Read more.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span><span><span><strong><span><span>We look forward to sharing more information on social media and on chhs.gmu.edu throughout the week! If you have something to share related to National Public Health Week, let us know!</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3206" hreflang="en">Public Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/8576" hreflang="en">national public health week</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3531" hreflang="en">Health Policy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/8736" hreflang="en">CHHS News</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:46:50 +0000 mthomp7 58411 at