Master the Art of the Elevator Speech
Early in my career, I learned the importance of have a few random minutes with someone that I had little access to… someone you bump into in an elevator, sidewalk, or whatever. Someone that can help you with your mission. It could be someone in a key position from a Stakeholder group, your boss's boss's boss, or maybe even an [...]
Summer Reading for Public Health Geeks
Do you like a good mystery or are you a budding public health geek looking for some summer reading? Look no further than Medical Detectives by Berton Roueche. It’s a book with dozens of real-life public health short stories and mysteries (they all get solved). The stories include fascinating cases of cyanosis traced to a particular salt shaker, investigations of [...]
ADHS to Win Copper Quills
Our Tobacco and Chronic Disease program will win 4 of the coveted International Association of Business Communicators Phoenix Copper Quill Awards this week. The awards are given annually to outstanding marketing and communications efforts, as judged by communications professionals around the US and Internationally. This year we’ll be getting awards for: Our Venomocity website and social media promotions for youth tobacco use prevention; Our [...]
Who Is Ed Jenner?
He’s a guy that may have saved more lives than any other single person in history. In the 1790's, he noticed that “milkmaids” seldom came down with smallpox. He developed a theory that the blisters which “milkmaids” commonly had as part of their work (from a disease called cowpox) somehow protected them from smallpox. In 1796, he tested his theory [...]
AZ “Putting Prevention to Work”
Last year we received funding from CDC to implement the Communities Putting Prevention to Work, which aims to achieve broad reaching, highly impactful, and sustainable change to reduce chronic disease burden associated with obesity and tobacco. This week CDC notified us that Arizona is a “high performing” state. What does this mean? CDC will soon be visiting Arizona providing additional evaluation [...]
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot
The Sonoran Desert will be among the hottest places on the globe for the next 4 months. The heat on the desert floor isn’t just a nuisance, it’s expensive & lethal. Do you know what to do to protect yourself and your family? Do you follow through? Year in and year out, nearly 1,400 Arizonans get heat related illnesses so serious [...]