Timely Information and Points (TIP) for public health community providers from the Center for Health Innovation, New Mexico's Public Health Institute. |
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Greetings from the Center for Health Innovation (CHI), New Mexico's Public Health Institute. You've been recognized as one of the leading public health professionals in our state, which is why you have been sent our newest publication TIPbits. Every month, we will be sending out timely information and points to aid your efforts to foster better public health in the state. Feel free to share them with your networks and community. Thanks for all you do for New Mexico, and let us lend you a helping hand with TIPbits!
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The Data-To-Action Workshop is a free virtual workshop on Thursday, May13 at 1 p.m.. The workshop is specifically tailored for NM Health Councils and their members to learn about the mapping resources available at the New Mexico Community Data Collaborative (NMCDC), a program of the Center for Health Innovation that maps health and social determinate factors that affect our state. Register here.
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Nourishing Neighbors (Albertsons Companies Foundation), has two opportunities for intermediary organizations, sponsors, and schools to apply for funding—a Summer Meals Grant, and a Connecting Families and Children to Federal Meal Programs. For more information and to apply:
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Professional Development/Webinars |
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is accepting applications (deadline August 27) for its IHI Fellowship (2021-22)
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NM County/Tribal Health Councils: Updates |
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The Health Equity Council (formerly the Bernalillo County Community Health Council) has an updated mission and website: https://www.healthequitycouncil.net/
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Grant County Health Council set up an Emerging Infectious Disease Task Force to coordinate a community-wide initiative and community response to address rising numbers of COVID-19 in Grant County.
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Union County Health Council, powered by the Northeast Network of NM, set up Healthcare Careers Pathways Programs in local schools, developed an EMS Instructional Toolkit, and is setting up a Pathways Community HUB.
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Hidalgo County Health Council gained $1+ million in federal funds for health promotion/substance abuse prevention, trained school staff and community, and has a mental health de-stigmatization effort.
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Roosevelt County Health Council published a Walking Opportunities for Roosevelt County Booklet in the Chamber of Commerce Magazine, set up a Produce to the People program, and helped set up the COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster) in the county.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) new report, Sexually Transmitted Infections: Advancing a Sexual Health Paradigm, has advice on future programs, policy, and research at: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25955
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A study in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found a significant drop in HPV following the vaccine’s introduction in 2006.
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The Children’s Defense Fund’s latest State of America’s Children report provides updates on issues impacting children’s lives: child population, child poverty, income/wealth inequality, housing/homelessness, child hunger and nutrition, child health, early childhood, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, gun violence, and immigration.
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The first-year results from Stockton’s Economic Empowerment Development (SEED) basic income pilot shows that families have reduced financial scarcity and become better prepared for their economic future. This is relevant to advocates interested in expanding access to a universal basic income (UBI)—a monthly basic income given to everyone regardless of work or income. It is considered as an anti-poverty measure to combat the rise of job loss due to automation and as an anti-racist tool to address persistent racial wealth gaps keeping families from meeting basic needs.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic substance use disorder is still a major concern. ASTHO's latest brief emphasizes certain concerns for policymakers when setting substance use policies, particularly in terms of effects on women and children.
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