JANUARY 2025 NEWSLETTER

Happy New Year from the

Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center!

As we step into 2025, we wish all good health, happiness and continued success. Thank you for your dedication to improving the well-being of our communities. Here's to a bright and impactful New Year!


"The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”

 ― Josiyah Martin

In Remembrance of the Bourbon Street Terror Attack Victims

#NOLAStrong

Our hearts were broken by the New Year's Day terror attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center stands in solidarity with the victims, their families and everyone affected by this tragedy.


New Orleans is a city of community, strength and unparalleled spirit. In this time of sorrow, we send our prayers and thoughts to those grieving and to the brave first responders who worked tirelessly to help.


In times of tragedy, many ask how they can help those in the community who are hurting. Through the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund, the Greater New Orleans Foundation is raising money to help the families of the victims and survivors start to heal and recover from this heartbreaking tragedy. Click here to donate.

Building Healthy Habits for 2025

The start of a new year is the perfect time to focus on building healthy habits that support your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Whether you’re looking to stay active, eat more nutritiously or reduce stress, small, consistent changes can make a big difference.


To help you on your journey, we’ve compiled a range of resources designed to promote health and well-being in the new year. From tips on mindful eating to strategies for managing workplace stress, you’ll find practical tools to

support your goals.


We're committed to making 2025 a year of a year of growth, balance, and wellness. Are you? Check out the resources below!

Your Guide to Healthier Habits in 2025

It’s exciting to set health goals at the start of the year, yet sticking to them is often hard. To make lasting changes, it’s essential to create realistic goals and plan how to achieve them step-by-step.

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Moving Matters for My Health

Physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. See how to get started.

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Changing Your Habits for Better Health

This resource from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases outlines the four stages of changing old habits to new healthier ones and offers ways to help improve eating and physical activity habits.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day - January 20, 2025

The Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center & Tulane University will be closed on 1/20/2025 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.


"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that." 

― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

NEWS AROUND THE REGION

New Mexico

UNM Health Sciences Center publishes paper in

Health Promotion Practice (HPP) Journal

Abstract:

Our collaboration to strengthen applied practice in public health training between two public universities in New Mexico has offered us insight into the types of institutional, administrative, and programmatic support beneficial for navigating work with limited resources and varying geographic considerations. We share some lessons from this burgeoning partnership between University of New Mexico’s (UNM) College of Population Health and New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) Department of Public Health Sciences which began in 2022. The main areas of learning focus on exchanging resources to extend relationships with fieldwork sites and site supervisors, engage and support students in their planning and implementation of their fieldwork, and identify institutional resources to maintain and grow programmatic quality. Implications from this work include efforts to reinforce the public health workforce pipeline, especially to ensure the participation and success of students from underrepresented backgrounds.


Click here to download the journal article.

Course Spotlight:

Integrating Infection Prevention and Control Science into POD-based Planning

Course Description:


The primary goal of this course is to increase awareness and integration of infection prevention and control (IPC) principles and environmental health and exposure sciences into rapid dispensing operations of any available medical countermeasure (including vaccines) to the population in need.


Learning Objectives:


  • Understand how Point of Dispensing (POD) strategies of medical countermeasures (MCM) are operationalized during public health emergencies


  • Understand the various considerations of choosing POD sites and carrying out operations


  • Understand the POD support functions


  • Understand how POD exposure and safety allow for the continuity of safe POD operations


  • Understand how to effectively manage countermeasures



For more info about this training,

please click here.

Featured Course Bundle:

Tribal Behavioral Health (TBH)

Course Bundle Description:


The Tribal Behavioral Health curriculum is designed to provide general guidance and understanding to increase the knowledge of behavioral health in the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population and among tribal health departments, including issues and challenges and organizations seeking to improve AI/AN behavioral health.


Trainings in the Tribal Behavioral Health (TBH) course bundle include:


  • Tribal Behavioral Health 101: Overview of American Indian/Alaska Native Behavioral Health


  • Tribal Behavioral Health 102: Health Issues for American Indian/Alaska Native Men


  • Tribal Behavioral Health 103: The Opioid Epidemic and American Indian/Alaska Native Communities


  • Tribal Behavioral Health 104: Culture is Prevention!


For more info about TBH course bundle,

please click here.

Looking for more training on a specific topic in public health? Need additional training on a current public health hot topic? We want to help you address these needs.


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