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The American Public Health Association is hosting a summer webinar series about racism’s impact on health and disparities.

The second webinar in the series, to be held on August 4 beginning at 11:00am PDT, is called No Safety, No Health: A Conversation About Race, Place and Preventing Violence. It will explore the role of public health in preventing this epidemic and the value of engaging many sectors in the solution. APHA Past President Linda Degutis, former director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and Howard Pinderhughes of UC San Francisco, Policy Link, and the Prevention Institute will lead this important discussion.

Participants may earn 1 CPH CE credit hour by attending and completing an online evaluation. More details on the webinars and on CPH credits are available on the APHA’s website.

Upcoming webinars in this series:

No Safety, No Health: A Conversation About Race, Place and Preventing Violence
August 4, 2015, 11 a.m. PDT

Unequal Treatment: Disparities in Access, Quality and Care
August 18, 2015, 11 a.m. PDT

Racism: The Silent Partner in High School Dropout and Health Disparities
September 1, 2015, 11 a.m. PDT

The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:

1. Health, food and social inequality: critical perspectives on the supply and marketing of food. By Carolyn Mahoney. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2015.
Call number: RA645.N87 M34 2015.
You can read a preview and see the table of contents here.

2. Doing a literature review in health and social care: a practical guide. By Helen Aveyard. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2014.
Call number: RA440.87.G7 A94 2014.
View the table of contents and some sample pages at Amazon.com.

3. Toxicity of building materials. Edited by F. Pacheco-Torgal, S. Jalali and A. Fucic. Cambridge, UK; Philadelphia, Pa: Woodhead Publishing, 2012.
Call number: TA403.6 .T69 2012.
See a brief summary and table of contents.

and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press which require a free registration to download a pdf of the title:

4. Review of the Draft Interagency Report on the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.

5. Scaling Program Investments for Young Children Globally: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, and Fundacao Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, Sao Paolo. Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.

6. Public Engagement on Genetically Modified Organisms: When Science and Citizens Connect: A Workshop Summary . National Research Council. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2014.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you. For a larger selection of recent arrivals, please check out our new books web page.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

Got 5 minutes? Want to improve your knowledge and skills of the 12 MCH Leadership Competencies? Then this series might be for you!

Beginning in July 2015, the MCH Navigator will conduct a weekly series that explores one of the 12 MCH Leadership Competencies each month. This series will run from July 2015 – June 2016 with an easy-to-follow weekly format designed to increase your knowledge and skills through 5-minute intensive learning sessions emailed to you each week and available through the MCH Navigator web portal.

The series will provides learning opportunities and implementation strategies, and will culminate in an interactive learning session with an expert from the field. Each month you will explore a different MCH Leadership Competency. The program is funded by the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

At the close of the webinar you will receive a certificate of completion for your focused work throughout the month. Those who complete all 12 will receive a special MCH Navigator Work Kit.

You can see a learning calendar, a brochure with more details, and register on the MCH Navigator website.

Want to learn about what influences low-income consumers? food choices? Interested in culturally appropriate interventions that promote healthier shopping and eating? Then you might watch this webinar hosted by the Healthy Food Access Portal!

Held on July 9 from 11:00am to 12:15pm PDT, speakers Cathy Califano of TRF Policy Solutions, Anne Harrison of Brown?s ShopRite, Ellen Damaschino of Share our Strength?s Cooking Matters, and Teresa Blanco of Northgate Gonzales Mark will share their insights with participants. You will also explore effective nutrition education programs and come away with practical tips on how to work with grocery retailers in your community.

The Healthy Food Access Portal website was created by PolicyLink, The Food Trust, and The Reinvestment Fund. The Portal is designed to help people access resources related to healthy food access policy efforts, funding opportunities, and successful retail strategies. Support is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

More information is available on the Healthy Food Access Portal website.

The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:

1. The age of dignity: preparing for the elder boom in a changing America. By Ai-jen Poo, with Ariane Conrad. New York: The New Press, 2015.
Call number: HV1461 .P66 2015.
See a summary and reviews at the publisher’s website.

2. Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell, Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.
Call number: RA424 .S26 2015.
Read extracts, see the table of contents, and read a description here.

3. Introductory statistics for the health sciences. By Lise DeShea and Larry Toothaker. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Call number: RA409 .D474 2015.
View a table of contents, a description, and reviews at the publisher’s website.

and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press which require a free registration to download a pdf of the title:

4. Innovations in Design and Utilization of Measurement Systems to Promote Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Institute of Medicine and National
Research Council. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.

5. Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters: Strategies, Opportunities, and Planning for Recovery. Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.

6. Collaboration Between Health Care and Public Health: Workshop Summary . Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

A workshop to collect input for the next update to the OEHHA report, Indicators of Climate Change in California, has been scheduled for June 16-17, 2015 and will be held in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA Headquarters Building located at 1001 I Street, Sacramento. The updated report is scheduled for release in 2017. Seating is limited, so be sure to register if you plan to attend.

The workshop will also be live webcast with the URL only active during the workshop.

This workshop is part of OEHHA’s ongoing effort to examine potential indicators that should be tracked to present a comprehensive picture of climate change and its impacts on California.

The workshop goals are to:
* Stimulate and collect ideas for the best indicators of climate change in California
* Explore how climate change indicators can be integrated into climate policy and action
* Discuss emerging evidence of climate change, its drivers and its impacts that are of particular significance to California and warrant further investigation
* Get feedback on the existing indicators and how to improve them

The draft agenda lists CDPH’s Paul English and Vicki Kramer as participants, along with speakers from Cal/EPA, OEHHA, Air Resources Board, Stanford, NOAA, several UC campuses, and many other agencies.

The 2013 version of the report is available online for viewing.

Want to hear about Canada’s national surveillance project that estimates the number of Canadians exposed to substances associated with cancer in workplace and community environments? Interested in learning what they are doing with the estimates that have been generated? Then this webinar may be of interest to you.

The webinar is presented by CAREX (CARcinogen EXposure) Canada and CELA (Canadian Environmental Law Association). CAREX is a multi-institution research project that combines academic expertise and government resources to generate an evidence-based carcinogen surveillance program for Canada. CAREX builds on work done by the Finnish Institute in creating the European CAREX project.

It will provide a broad overview of CAREX, how the exposure estimates were generated, and how users can conduct custom queries of these estimates. Following the presentation, join us for a panel discussion about using CAREX estimates in legal and advocacy work, where panel members will discuss ways that CAREX has been used and could be used in future.

DATE: Wednesday, June 10, 2015
TIME: 12-1pm PST

This webinar is intended for researchers, environmental NGO staff, advocates for environmental/occupational disease sufferers, and lawyers with an interest in environmental and occupational exposure.

For more information or to register, please go here.

Interested in the connection between transportation and health? Want to hear about how another community funded and developed their transportation programs to include health? Then you might want to log on to this webinar to be held on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 11am-12pm PDT.

Speaker Leslie Meehan, Director of Healthy Communities, Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, will provide an overview of the process used to fund transportation programs in Nashville. She will also share how the project was moved forward from start to finish, how it incorporated health, and how Nashville planning organizations evaluate projects and promote health.

The other speaker, Scott Bricker, is the Executive Director of America Walks. Scott will provide examples of communities that have improved walkability and active transportation through organized efforts.

Not able to attend on June 3? This webinar, hosted by APHA, will be recorded and made available after the live event.

More information including how to register is available here.