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Webinar Series SHLI Lunch & Learn Taking Action: Advancing Conversations On Climate Change, Environmental Justice and Health Equity The Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have partnered to provide a bi-monthly lunch and learn series for legislators, policymakers, institutional leaders, and community advocates. This series will focus on addressing civic engagement, climate change policies, community mobilization, water quality, carbon emissions, energy and power conservation, and climate change effects on vulnerable communities through a policy and health equity lens.     When: August 25,…

WORKFORCE AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT     Enhancing and Strengthening Public Health ASTHO and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine, with support from CDC, invite you to apply to the Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH) program. This new program will increase and strengthen participants’ visibility and exposure in public health systems, access to key networks, and leadership development opportunities. Program participants will be selected from experienced public health professionals who self-identify from an underrepresented group, including people of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals. This is…

U.S. Territories Data Added to Health Equity Tracker Atlanta, GA, August 09, 2021 – The Satcher Health Leadership Institute’s Health Equity Tracker has made updates to the platform to include data from United States Territories: Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Updates include changes to the national map to include interactive icons for the territories and the acquisition of additional data sources for population information. Together, these updates allow users to track data we have available on health outcomes. An Important Note on Missing Data The census bureau does not release population data for the…

ASTHO and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine, with support from CDC, invite you to apply to the Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH) program. This new program will increase and strengthen participants’ visibility and exposure in public health systems, access to key networks, and leadership development opportunities. Program participants will be selected from experienced public health professionals who self-identify from an underrepresented group, including people of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals. This is a 12-month program with three in-person events. Washington Week - Washington, D.C. (February…

Opinion: Violence is a treatable public health ill By Mark Rosenberg, Kathryn Lawler and David Satcher Gun violence has reached frightening levels in Atlanta and many experts predict that it will get worse in the coming months. We want to avoid something even worse, the fatalism and hopelessness that affects all of us -- including mayors, legislators and journalists — when we can’t understand the problem and can’t even imagine how we can solve it. Read full article