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phps NEW! NPHIC will be at Public Health Preparedness Summit  -  Feb. 16-19
Margaret Cooper, chair of NPHIC’s Emergency Preparedness Committee will attend the conference in Atlanta. The summit is designed to strengthen the capabilities of public health professionals to prepare for public health emergencies. NPHIC also will be there as an exhibitor talking with summit attendees about the valuable resource our organization can and does provide during a when a public health crisis occurs.

 
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 NPHIC partners with CDC and Harvard on public health opinion polling
As a NPHIC member, you already have received alerts about soon-to-be released results from two H1N1-related polls. These and future polls are funded under a cooperative agreement with the CDC and NPHIC. The goal is to provide CDC and NPHIC members with reliable data to use in the development of crisis communication plans and messages.

Under the agreement, NPHIC is able to provide assistance in polling project development and dissemination. Polling data belongs to Harvard and is posted on its web site http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases. We will continue the practice – begun in December – of alerting NPHIC members before poll results are released to the media. When appropriate, we also may alert NPHIC members as individual polling projects go live across the country.

 
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 New web site focuses on risk communication in rural areas
NPHIC member Roger Naylor has designed a risk communication web site that should be of interest to all NPHIC members. Naylor is the Risk Communicator and Public Information Officer at the Southeast Health District in Waycross, GA. The web site project was funded by NACCHO. The site provides ready-to-use materials with an emphasis on challenges encountered in rural settings. The site contains information on setting up a Joint Information Center, as well as toolkits tied to specific bioterrorism, chemical and radiation emergencies. Look for Naylor to share information on his project during an upcoming CDC/NPHIC teleconference call.