From VAPHA:
"Join us for the Virginia Public Health Association’s Spring Meeting, Environmental Health: It’s Elemental, April 20th in downtown Richmond. The program will serve as a forum to discuss the interconnections between environmental and public health and the impacts environmental factors can have on the public’s health at the most basic levels." Read more
Showing posts with label Public Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Health. Show all posts
Monday, April 2, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Public Knowledge Journal: Call for Papers on Public Health
Public Knowledge Journal is now accepting papers for Volume 4 Issue 1 on the topic of Public Health. Public health in this call is broadly defined and may include topical areas such as public health research, economic influences on public health, the local and organic food movements, and the role of development aid in targeted populations.
The extended call for papers is posted at http://pkjournal.org/?page_id=354. We encourage submissions from graduate students of all disciplines in order to approach the topic from a variety of perspectives. Papers submission closes on February 10, 2012.
Additionally, PKJ is seeking interested graduate students who are interested to contribute scholarly book reviews in all areas that focus on public policy and administration [federal, state & local, and non-profit]. If you are interested in writing a book review, please contact Stacey Shindelar, Book Review Editor, directly at sshindelar@vt.edu.
Public Knowledge is a multidisciplinary, graduate student-run electronic journal hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech (ISSN 1948-3511). The journal began in 2008 with the goal of using a variety of communication technologies to develop scholarly conversations about topics in the public interest.
The journal welcomes contributions of articles for peer review, as well as book reviews, essays, interviews, blogs, and other multimedia works. Authors also retain the rights to their work.
Contributors questions about potential submissions or about the submission process should be sent to editor@pkjournal.org.
The extended call for papers is posted at http://pkjournal.org/?page_id=354. We encourage submissions from graduate students of all disciplines in order to approach the topic from a variety of perspectives. Papers submission closes on February 10, 2012.
Additionally, PKJ is seeking interested graduate students who are interested to contribute scholarly book reviews in all areas that focus on public policy and administration [federal, state & local, and non-profit]. If you are interested in writing a book review, please contact Stacey Shindelar, Book Review Editor, directly at sshindelar@vt.edu.
Public Knowledge is a multidisciplinary, graduate student-run electronic journal hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech (ISSN 1948-3511). The journal began in 2008 with the goal of using a variety of communication technologies to develop scholarly conversations about topics in the public interest.
The journal welcomes contributions of articles for peer review, as well as book reviews, essays, interviews, blogs, and other multimedia works. Authors also retain the rights to their work.
Contributors questions about potential submissions or about the submission process should be sent to editor@pkjournal.org.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Jan 12 Farm Bill and Public Health Webinar
From the American Public Health Association Legislative Update:
"On Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 2:00pm EST, Healthy Food Action will launch its 2012 Healthy Food, Healthy Farms webinar series titled Visualizing Health and the Farm Bill. Speakers will include Jennifer Billig, with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Roni Neff, with the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Beth Hoffman with Food+Tech Connect. Speakers will provide an overview of key public health provisions in the Farm bill and will engage in a discussion about the potential public health impacts of the upcoming reauthorization of the Farm Bill later this year.
Interested members can register for the webinar on the Healthy Food Action website."
"On Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 2:00pm EST, Healthy Food Action will launch its 2012 Healthy Food, Healthy Farms webinar series titled Visualizing Health and the Farm Bill. Speakers will include Jennifer Billig, with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Roni Neff, with the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Beth Hoffman with Food+Tech Connect. Speakers will provide an overview of key public health provisions in the Farm bill and will engage in a discussion about the potential public health impacts of the upcoming reauthorization of the Farm Bill later this year.
Interested members can register for the webinar on the Healthy Food Action website."
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