648: One Health Education, Appropriations Book Download

ROBERT JOHNSON: 

This is the award-winning Public Health Review Morning Edition for Monday, April 22, 2024. I'm Robert Johnson. Now, today's news from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

KATHY JO ROBBINS: 

We all work together toward the same common goal, which is meeting routinely to discuss how climate, how animals, how people, how our environment come together, and what can we do to keep our communities healthy.

JOHNSON: 

Kathy Jo Robbin's with the Delaware Public Health Department talking about her state's One Health approach, especially important now, as many agencies deal with the impact of avian flu on herds of dairy cows. Robbin says Delaware's program started over local concern for Zika and Ebola several years ago.

ROBBINS: 

So the program we have today is with infectious disease. And we have an education and health equity lens focus for the state.

JOHNSON: 

Robbins adds Delaware educates audiences with online epi chats where experts examine a different One Health topic each month.

ROBBINS: 

So we'll then take a case investigation, we'll run through a case and offer to providers some feedback and some talking points that they can share with their patients, as well as materials whether that's from our website, with DPH, which we have a One Health page is some frequently asked questions that we find and some guidance on different type of essays that they can run, and how they can treat their patients.

JOHNSON: 

Robbins offers this advice for agencies looking to start a One Health Program.

ROBBINS: 

Start small and use action items that work with your state. You're probably already doing many of these activities. So sharing and forming collaborations with your department of natural resources, with your community colleges, like we have done and this could be anything from vector borne diseases, it could be food safety environment.

JOHNSON: 

Today, is Earth Day. Listen to experts discuss the One Health concept in a recent episode of the Public Health Review podcast. You can also visit Delaware's One Health webpage, the links are in the show notes.

Also on this Earth Day, agencies are working to share information about the latest cases of avian flu exposure around the country. Massimo Pacilli is at the Chicago Health Department.

MASSIMO PACILLI: 

I think broadly there's been good dissemination of information of this sort of new animal populations being affected, and we certainly get briefings on any sort of emerging situations.

JOHNSON: 

Pacilli and Dr. Raynard Washington headlined a news conference last week hosted by the big cities Health Coalition. Washington is chair of the coalition board and director of the Mecklenburg County Public Health Department in Charlotte, North Carolina. He says his agency issued an advisory about an animal exposure in a nearby jurisdiction.

RAYNARD WASHINGTON: 

We sent out a local health advisory notice as well just to raise awareness and share what facts we have about it with our local provider community. And so we continue to just try to stay prepared as possible in the event that we have work to do.

JOHNSON: 

Also today, ASTHO wants Congress and others to know about its priorities for federal funding in the new fiscal year, the organization putting the finishing touches on its annual appropriations book. This is ASTHO's Catherine Murphy.

MURPHY: 

it's really designed to be a tool for members of Congress, their staff, and other public health advocates to see funding recommendations and key information for these crucial public health programs. The book demonstrates the importance of funding these programs to sustain a robust public health system throughout our nation.

JOHNSON: 

Murphy says the book is timed to inform the annual appropriations process that gets underway early in the year.

MURPHY: 

We want to make sure that appropriators are thinking about public health funding, but other advocates are on the same page with these programs and funding levels and just making sure that we can share their importance with legislators and other advocates.

JOHNSON: 

You can download your copy of the ASTHO Appropriations Book and read a related blog article by clicking the links in the show notes.

Finally, this morning, there's still time to take part in today's training session centered on risk and protective factors associated with adverse childhood experiences. O'Keyla Cooper has more.

O'KEYLA COOPER: 

Join ASTHO Social and Behavioral Health Team Today, April 22, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time for a virtual training on adverse childhood experiences 101. This session focuses on educating about ACEs, discussing risk factors, and exploring prevention efforts. Registration is still open and you can access registration details through the link in the show notes.

JOHNSON: 

Before we go a reminder also to follow this newscast on your podcast player and connect with ASTHO on social media. We are on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. That'll do it for today. We're back tomorrow morning with more ASTHO news and information. I'm Robert Johnson. You're listening to the award winning Public Health Review Morning Edition. Have a great day.