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State of Public Health

The Georgia Public Health Training Center at the University of Georgia's College of Public Health will host the inaugural The State of Public Health Conference March 21 at the UGA Hotel and Conference Center.

CDC: 'Nightmare Bacteria'

Influential leaders from a

Game Turns Kids Into Heroes variety of sectors and

Milk from Another Mother disciplines committed to

Math, Science and English
App Features Recipes with Natural, Organic Ingredients

improving the health of residents across the state will be in attendance, including DPH

PHBRIEFS

Commissioner Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., the

conference's plenary

Davis Joins DPH
Michael D. Davis, Ph.D., has joined the Georgia Public Health Laboratory in the newly created position of regional laboratory director. He will also function as

speaker. The meeting aims to move past the issues of the day by bringing public health professionals together for a practical discussion about public health in Georgia.

deputy for Elizabeth Franko, Dr.PH, and is stationed at the
Waycross Public Health Laboratory. Davis' last position
was with the Alabama

"I think it's very important for all of us to understand the challenges we face in Georgia," Fitzgerald said. "This conference will do that and allow us to take a close look at how much progress we've made in just a couple of years."

Department of Public Health as



laboratory assistant director and

he also served as the Detroit
Department of Health's assistant CDC: 'Nightmare Bacteria'

director of laboratories. Spreading in Hospitals

Employee Featured Data show more patients suffering infections from

in AJC Article
DPH employee Kenyata Arnold

antibiotic-resistant bacteria

was interviewed recently by The

Atlanta Journal-Constitution for A family of bacteria

a story featuring adult students has become

who have returned to the increasingly resistant

classroom to finish or earn to last-resort

additional degrees. Arnold works antibiotics during the

in human resources and plans to past decade, and

earn a bachelor's degree in more hospitalized

organizational leadership at patients are getting

Point University in East Point. lethal infections that,

Read more here.

in some cases, are

impossible to cure.

Online MPH for Working

Professionals

The findings, published March 5 in the Centers for Disease Control and

The Career Master of Public Prevention's Vital Signs report, are a call to action for the entire

Health (CMPH) program at health care community to work urgently -- individually, regionally and

Emory University's Rollins School nationally -- to protect patients. During just the first half of 2012,

of Public Health is a distance almost 200 hospitals and long-term acute care facilities treated at

learning program designed for least one patient infected with these bacteria.

working professionals unable to

leave their job. Each semester, The bacteria, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), kill

students are required to attend up to half of patients who get bloodstream infections from them. In

two long weekends on Emory's addition to spreading among patients, often on the hands of health

campus in Atlanta. All additional care personnel, CRE bacteria can transfer their resistance to other

coursework is taught using the bacteria within their family. This type of spread can create additional

Internet and distance learning life-threatening infections for patients in hospitals and potentially for

techniques. The majors offered otherwise healthy people. Currently, almost all CRE infections occur

are applied epidemiology, in people receiving significant medical care in hospitals, long-term

applied public health

acute care facilities or nursing homes.

informatics and prevention science. The degree takes seven



semesters for the full-time

student and is fully accredited Game Turns Kids Into Disaster Heroes

by CEPH and SACS. Apply by May

1, 2013 to guarantee

Computer game helps children and adults

consideration for the fall 2013 semester. Click here for more

prepare for the unexpected

information.

PHEVENTS

BOPH Meeting The Board of Public Health will meet March 12 from 1-3 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Board Room at 2
Peachtree. Click here for agenda.

Public Health Preparedness Summit
The Public Health Preparedness Summit will be March 12-15 at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta.
The summit will provide a national forum for public health
and healthcare professionals, emergency managers and other
leaders to collaborate, learn and share best practices. Click
here for more information.

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has launched "Disaster Hero," a game designed to teach families how to prepare for all types of hazards or emergencies. The game was developed as part of a grant administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the game, the player takes the role of a Disaster Hero contestant in a high-tech game show, competing against a computer opponent to prove his or her disaster knowledge and preparedness skills.

Let's Move! Atlanta Let's Move! Atlanta, a



C.H.O.I.C.E.S for Kids children's nutrition education and physical

Milk from Another Mother

activity expo, will be March 16 Health officials concerned as some parents turn

from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Adamsville Recreation Center in

to informal milk-sharing

Atlanta. Activities include

fitness events, free health When it comes to food for babies,

screenings, vendor exhibits and the breast is best. Years of

youth performances. Please research have revealed the health

wear sneakers to participate in benefits of breastfeeding for

fitness activities. Admission is babies and for mothers, and public

free. Donations and volunteers health officials, including those at

are needed. Click here

the Georgia Department of Public

for more information.

Health (DPH), promote the

practice.

Inaugural State of Public

Health Conference

But what happens when a mother can't give her baby as much milk as

The inaugural 2013 State of he needs or if she simply can't breastfeed at all? Parents who still

Public Health Conference will be want their babies to get the health benefits of breast milk may turn

March 21 at the UGA Hotel and to a breast milk bank, where parents with a doctor's prescription can

Conference Center in Athens. purchase breast milk donated by mothers with extra milk.

Tyler Norris, vice president of

Total Health Partnerships at But according to a recent blog from the New York Times, an

Kaiser Permanente, will give the increasing number of parents are turning to the Internet instead,

keynote presentation, along joining an informal network of parents sharing breast milk.

with DPH Commissioner Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, who will give



the plenary presentation. The

event is sponsored by the Georgia Public Health Training

Math, Science and English Get Physical

Center and the UGA College of Schools use P.E. to help students practice other

Public Health. Click here for

more information.

subjects

One Health Symposium

On any given day, students in

The University of Georgia Gwinnett County Schools do

Biomedical and Health Sciences some academic multitasking in

Institute and Faculty of

gym class.

Infectious Diseases, along with

the University of Liverpool, will Third-graders might solve a math

host the first international One problem that tells them how

Health Symposium March 21-23 many pushups they need to do. A

at the UGA Center for

fourth-grade class might

Continuing Education. The event continue classroom work on

will bring together researchers, reading comprehension in the

human and animal health care gym by reading a card that

practitioners, clinicians and describes an action they need to

experts in microbiology,

perform to complete an activity

infectious diseases, disease or play a game, instead of the

ecology, human and veterinary teacher telling them what to do.

medicine, environmental health,

public health, health policy and Chuck Truett, director of health

wildlife to discuss disease and physical education for

diagnosis and health practice. Gwinnett County Schools, said

"Breaking Barriers and Crossing the schools use this strategy to

Scales" is this year's theme. help students apply what they

Microbiome, host-pathogen-host learn in other parts of the school day in the gym.

interactions and biodiversity and

infection will be discussed "They can learn language arts through movement or math by playing

during the forum. Click here for an instrument," he said. "It brings concreteness to those abstract ideas

more information.

they're learning."

2013 Dr. Daniel S. Blumental Annual Public Health Summit



Morehouse School of Medicine's Dr. Daniel S. Blumental Annual

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Public Health Summit, Organic Ingredients

"Preventing Obesity through the

Life Stages," will be April 2-3, 2013. DPH Commissioner Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., is a featured
speaker. Click here for more information.

Whole Foods Market Recipes is a recipe finder featuring natural and organic foods. Users are able to search up to three

Free Exercise Classes DPH offers group exercise
classes every day at 2 Peachtree. Classes include dance, kickboxing, yoga, walking and more. Classes are open on a first come, first

ingredients or by specific dietary preferences and needs, such as gluten-free, low-fat, and vegetarian or vegan. Recipes also include nutritional information and cooking instructions.

served basis and there is no need to pre-register. Download
the monthly schedule.

The application allows users to automatically add ingredients from a shopping

Submit Calendar Entries to communications@dhr.state.ga.us

list from a recipe, including quantities to prevent overbuying. Items can also

be added, edited,

PHTRAINING rearranged by hand and synced to the application

Excel Working with Multiple

via email.

Worksheets March 21
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The store locator feature enables users to find local Whole Foods Market stores,

Excel Charts

with links to the store

March 26

website and specials of

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

natural and organic foods

Excel Data Management & Pivot on sale.

Tables March 26 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

To download for iPhone and iPad, click here.

For employees not at 2 Peachtree, classes can be attended remotely, but employees must be registered 48 hours prior
to class. Register for all classes through SABA (2 Peachtree attendees register for "Instructor-Led" and remote attendees register for "Virtual" classes). Contact Lisa Miller if you have questions.

Look for Word & PowerPoint classes in April and Access
classes in May.

Submit Calendar Entries to communications@dhr.state.ga.us

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