MPHA Members,

Hope you can check out our Leadership Co-Chair, Ann Zukoski's upcoming webinar!

You are invited! COVID-19: Stress and Using Systems Theory to Evaluate Public Health Response to a Viral Pandemic 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM on 20 Nov 2020 Webinar REGISTER NOW COVID-19: Stress and Using Systems Theory to Evaluate Public Health Response to a Viral Pandemic In December 2019, COVID-19 appeared and spread rapidly impacting countries worldwide. In January 2020, the US public health system initiated its response to address the virus spread and impact  – a focus on flattening the curve. Working with limited resources and facing uncertainty, state, local and tribal public health partners initiated localized response to protect communities. This presentation shines light on how systems theory informed one state’s public health agency’s response. Presenters will share how the context of COVID-19 and related stress impacts staff and the role evaluators can play to support strong decision-making.  The presentation will focus on how adaptive action, a deceptively simplistic approach, can be used as an evaluation method during uncertain times. Join us to discuss how systems theory can help us understand patterns and frame a response for communities in Minnesota.                                                          Ann Zukoski, DrPH, MPH, conducts research and evaluation of community-based and public health initiatives. She has a strong interest in using systems thinking and use of participatory evaluation to assess systems and policy change. She leads the Evaluation and Research Team at the Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives at the Minnesota Department of Health. She is a co-author with David Fetterman and Lilliana Rodriquez-Campos of the book, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation- Stakeholder Involvement Approaches. Liana R.N. Schreiber, MPH, RDN is a Research Scientist at the Minnesota Department of Health.  In this role, she helps collect and analyze the collection of statewide data around policy, systems, and environmental changes to create healthier communities, provides support to local public health agencies to develop evaluations, and co-leads the evaluation of food service guidelines projects for CDC grants. This event will help develop the following evaluator competencies: reflecting on evaluation formally or informally to improve practice (Professional Practice 1.5), attending to systems issues within the context (Context 3.4), promoting evaluation use and influence in context (Context 3.8), and attending to the ways power and privilege affect evaluation practice (Interpersonal skills 5.5).

Friday, December 4th from 11:00 AM - 02:30 PM

Abolition and the Money Bail System

The Center for Justice and Law presents our half day conference Abolition and the Money Bail System featuring nationally renowned activist and scholar, Mariame Kaba, on Friday, December 4th 11:00am-2:30pm. 

Join us for an in-depth conversation on the money bail system and its impact featuring prominent scholars, activists, practitioners, and justice-impacted community members. Register here! 

The following CE credits will be available:

• Continuing Legal Education (pending)
• Minnesota Board of Social Work (pending)

Panelists:

• John Choi, Ramsey County Attorney 
• Sarah Walker, Vice President of Voting Rights Lab 
• Elizer Darris, ACLU Minnesota Organizer
• Leslie Redmond, President of the Minneapolis NAACP
• Octavia Smith, President Emeritus, Minnesota Freedom Fund 
• Jared Mollenkof, Public Defender for Hennepin County 
• David Sparks, Justice-Impacted Community Member

Upcoming Webinar Reminder Overdose Crisis in Transition: Changing Trends in a Widening Drug Death Epidemic Join SHADAC on Tuesday, November 10th at 1:00 PM Central / 2:00 PM Eastern for a webinar discussing the latest data and analysis regarding the U.S. opioid crisis.   For nearly two decades, the United States has experienced a growing epidemic of drug overdose deaths. But even by standards of the rapidly evolving opioid crisis, mortality data from 2018 illustrate a stark transformation: While the U.S. recorded rare declines in death rates from prescription opioids and heroin, overdose deaths from synthetic opioids continued their rise. The year also highlighted the dramatic ascent of emerging substances in the changing crisis, as overdose death rates from cocaine and psychostimulants (e.g., methamphetamine) reached record highs and outpaced overdose deaths from prescription opioids. Focusing on these recent developments in the opioid crisis, an upcoming SHADAC webinar will concentrate on analyzing and discussing changes in overdose deaths in more recent years, especially in 2018. Using the latest available data, Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp will detail changing trends—both in terms of substances and subpopulations of concerns—across the nation and among the states. Mr. Planalp will also be joined by SHADAC Research Fellow Robert Hest, who will explain how to access and use the data on opioid-related overdose deaths through SHADAC’s State Health Compare website. Event Resources The Opioid Epidemic (SHADAC Resource Page) Overdose Crisis in Transition: Changing National and State Trends in a Widening Drug Death Epidemic (Briefs) 50-State Analysis of Drug Overdose Trends: The Evolving Opioid Crisis Across the States (Infographics) After drop in 2018, newer data indicate a resurgence in drug overdose deaths

MPHA Friends,

The UMN SPH Maternal & Child Health Interest Group on Monday, November 9th at 10:10 AM CST is sponsoring a speaker lecture by Amy Haddad, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Association of MCH Professionals (AMCHP). Her talk is titled "Advancing Maternal and Child Health Through Legislation and Policy". We hope to see you there on Zoom! 

Amy Haddad leads AMCHP in advocacy for Title V appropriations; she promotes AMCHP's policy priorities, represents AMCHP in various policy coalitions, and supports the Legislative and Health Care Finance Committee. Prior to assuming her current position, she served as the Associate Director of Government Affairs for more than three years. Before joining AMCHP, Ms. Haddad served as the director of public policy for Children's Cause for Cancer Advocacy and brings over seven years of Capitol Hill experience, including six years as legislative assistant to Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA). In addition, she spent over two years living in Tel Aviv as the country director of a small nonprofit organization. 

Zoom Information:

https://umn.zoom.us/j/95143256377?pwd=bis3ZlFyc29xTU9sSHNIU01Ud0Nzdz09
Passcode: ZmKm03

Or Join by Telephone: +1 651 372 8299
Webinar ID: 951 4325 6377
Passcode: 147062  

Please click on the above date & time to add the Zoom link to your Google calendar and, as always, don't hesitate to reach out to sphmchig@gmail.com if you have any questions or accessibility concerns!  

Friday, October 30th from 12-2:30pm.

Community Health, Research, and Trauma: Scholarly Perspectives from Young Black Scholars - virtual panel presented by Hamline University

This panel will feature scholars who research at the intersection of trauma and community-based research. We will consider questions such as: how can data collection practices be harmful? How does this connect with experiences of generational trauma, grief, and exploitation of the most impacted communities? This will be an open panel discussion with an opportunity for thoughtful cross-sector conversations on best practices needed moving forward. Register for the event here. 

The following CE credits will be available: 

• MN Board of Psychology 
• MN Board of Behavioral Health (LPC & LPCCs)
• MN Board of Social Work (pending)

Look out for our upcoming events (CE/CLEs will be available):  

• October-November: Weekly CJL Spotlight on the 2020 Election 
• Friday, December 6th: Money Bail System & Public Health: Roots, Consequences, Pathways Forward 

                                            

The Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation presents the 14th Annual Facing Race Awards, first airing Sunday, Oct. 25, 7 pm.

The Facing Race Awards offer an annual recognition of anti-racism activists and organizations in Minnesota. They are a way to honor those in our community who challenge absent and harmful narratives on race, build solutions that unite, instead of divide, and push for justice and equity. Through these Awards, we celebrate and learn from those leading the way forward.

Hindsight 2020: Our Health, Our Future

A conference on Urban Planning through the Equity Lens

COVID-19 has amplified our nation’s structural inequities as evident in racial disparities in deaths, access to care, income distribution, and police brutality against Black lives. This year's Hindsight Conference calls on planners and policy makers to center racial justice in our understanding of health and the environment. Join us and take action towards centering the Black and Brown existence in health, joy, creativity, and healing.

The two day, virtual event from November 12-13, 2020 will focus on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic at a conference, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented.

Learn more & register at: https://www.hindsightcon.com/

QUIE AND PETERSON GLOBAL HEALTH LECTURE Charting the Path to Health Equity: A 20/20 Review of the Political Determinants of Health In our collective effort to achieve health equity, both in the US and around the globe, contributing factors beyond access to healthcare providers can often have a larger influence on the health of a community. In this year’s Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture, our featured speakers will highlight the ways in which political determinants of health have a far greater impact on our ability to achieve health equity than we may realize, and how the long lasting impact of decisions made by our political leaders can influence the health of generations to come. All are welcome to join us on October 26, 2020 from 11:30–1:00pm ct to learn more about the political determinants of health in advance of the 2020 U.S. elections.   Our annual Quie & Peterson Global Health Lecture honors the work of Dr. Paul G. Quie and Dr. Phillip K. Peterson, striving to continue their legacy of global health leadership and to inspire the next generation of global health leaders. MEET THE SPEAKERS Ilona Kickbusch, Ph.D. Professor Ilona Kickbusch has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization and was the director of the Global Health Division at Yale University School of Public Health and responsible for the first major Fulbright Program on global health. MEET THE SPEAKERS Daniel Dawes, J.D. Attorney Daniel E. Dawes is a nationally recognized leader in the health equity movement and has led numerous efforts to address health policy issues impacting vulnerable, underserved, and marginalized populations.  MEET THE SPEAKERS Laura Bloomberg, Ph.D. Dr. Laura Bloomberg is professor and dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Her academic research focuses on community-based leadership, program evaluation, and elementary/secondary educational policy. Quie & Peterson Global Health Lecture  Monday, October 26, 2020 11:30–1:00 pm ct This event is free, open to the public, and available online. Reserve your spot at the virtual Quie & Peterson Global Health Lecture. Unable to attend the first session of our Mini Medical School: A Focus on Global Health? Don't worry! You can still register and you'll get the recording of the first session along with access to the next two live panels. Our next session covers how global health is local health by connecting global health to the health of Minnesota. Register for Mini Medical School: A Focus on Global Health.

Contact the Center University of Minnesota Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility Mayo Memorial Building C311, Mail Code MMC329 420 Delaware St. S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455

ACS CAN Minnesota 2020 Research and Innovation Forum 

November 19, 2020 11:00am – 12:30pm

Virtual

Register at: https://www.fightcancer.org/events/acs-can-minnesota-2020-research-and-innovation-forum

Download event flyer

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, is the nation’s leading cancer advocacy organization working every day to make cancer issues a top priority. 

 

The ACS CAN Minnesota Research and Innovation Forum is a premiere event that brings together leaders from the business, education, medical, government and research communities to advance the work of ACS CAN. The event not only unites those in Minnesota who are fighting to end cancer, it serves to support ACS CAN and its work. 

The November 19 event will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted cancer care and research. Nearly one in four cancer patients say the pandemic has made it more difficult to get needed care. COVID- 19 has also impacted cancer prevention, research, and clinical trial participation. What’s more, this pandemic has underscored the health inequities that already exist in health care. Experts from all cancer care perspectives will discuss how COVID-19 has impacted cancer patients and researchers and what must be done to ensure all Minnesotans are accessing the cancer prevention and care they need.

 

Confirmed speakers include: 

•                    • Shaji Kumar, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Consultant, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic

•                    • Jeffrey Miller, M.D., Deputy Director, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation

•                    • Ann Nyakundi, MHA, CEO of United Family Medicine 

 

Key Highlights: 

Screening. 

Screening increases the chances of detecting certain cancers early, when they are most likely to be curable. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant delays in preventative cancer screenings. What is being done to address the delays due to COVID-19 and how can we remove screening barriers across all Minnesota communities?

Research. 

Advancements in medical research have unleashed new and improved therapies that are revolutionizing cancer care. How has COVID-19 impacted the research being done by Minnesota companies and institutions? What is being done to make sure the communities disproportionally impacted by cancer and COVID-19 can access research and clinical trials? What’s needed to make sure COVID-19 doesn’t permanently set back research and cancer care? 

Community Driven Solutions. 

Racism is a public health crisis. Many in Minnesota have been doing meaningful work to tackle structural racism in health care, reduce cancer disparities, and advance health equity. What factors have made COVID-19 impact communities of color more than other communities? How can cancer prevention and care advance anti-racist work and support communities of color during the global pandemic?

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WEBINAR COVID-19 and Mental Health in the Workplace: Solutions for Employers and Employees

Date and Time October 19, 2020 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET Featuring Kathleen Pike Columbia University Brad Lerner Anthem Yolo Akili Robinson BEAM Register Now The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic recession have negatively affected the mental health of many Americans. The number of adults reporting that stress of the pandemic impacted their mental health increased from one third in March to over half of adults in July. The mental health consequences of the pandemic are widespread and impact everyone from frontline and essential workers, to those working from home. The pandemic has also highlighted unequal access to behavioral health care. While their rates of behavioral health disorders are similar to the general population, Black and Latino people experience greater barriers in accessing mental health treatment.  This webinar will bring together experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges that the pandemic poses for mental health and workplace well-being. Speakers will discuss: The trend of declining mental health in America before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and what needs to be done to ward off a mental health crisis in the future What a large employer and health plan is doing to prioritize mental health among its employees and members How a community-focused organization is improving mental health and mental health awareness in the Black community A draft agenda is available on our website.