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National Infant Immunization Week 2015: Protect the ones who cannot protect themselves

National Infant

Immunization Week

(NIIW) is April 18 - April

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25, 2015, and the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) urges all Georgians to

protect infants from


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National Infant Immunization Week
District Leaders Appointed at Georgia Regents University

vaccine-preventable diseases by ensuring our little ones, and everyone around them, are vaccinated and upto-date on their immunization schedules.

Grow Wins State Public Health "Vaccines are crucial to

Award

protecting children

Georgia Addresses Syphilis and HIV before they are exposed

Infections

to potentially lifethreatening diseases,"

Health Official Warns Residents to said Sheila Lovett,

DPH is encouraging Georgians to ensure infants, and everyone around them, are up-to-date on their immunizations to combat vaccinepreventable diseases.

Take Precautions Against Rabies interim director of the Georgia Immunization Program. "Immunization is a shared

App of the Week: Healthy

responsibility and we as parents, family, friends and health care providers can help

Swimming

keep our children and communities protected by staying current on our immunization

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schedule. We urge parents to speak with their pediatrician or health care provider at every visit to make sure their infant is up-to-date on vaccinations."

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According to the most recent data available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Immunization Survey, Georgia immunization rates for Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) were below the national average, ranking them 39th compared to other states.

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PHNEWS

East Central Health District Leaders Appointed Adjunct Professors at Georgia Regents University

The Georgia

Department of Public

Health (DPH) is

excited to

congratulate Stephen

Goggans, M.D.,

district health

director; Joy Miller,

MSPH, MSA, director

of the Office of

Epidemiology; and

Tammy Burdeaux, RN,

BSN, CRNI, district

nursing and clinical

director at the East

Central Health

District, for their

recent appointments

as adjunct faculty members at Georgia Regents University (GRU).

Recently appointed as adjunct professors at Georgia Regents University in the Department of Health Management and Informatics in the College of Allied Health Sciences are (left to right) Tammy Burdeaux, Stephen Goggans
and Joy Miller.

All three East Central Health District leaders will contribute their extensive public health insights to students in GRU's Master of Public Health program within its Department of Health Management and Informatics at the College of Allied Health Sciences.

With more than 30 years of public health experience and medical training between them, Goggans, Miller and Burdeaux will work with faculty in preparing specific lectures, revising and expanding public health curriculum and working with students.

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create registry for medical Grow Wins State Public Health Award marijuana patients

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Doctors Often Ignore Parents' Concerns About Autism in Young
Kids: Study

William R. Grow, M.D., South Health District director, won the Jules S. Terry Memorial Award at Georgia Public Health Association's 86th annual conference last week.

Cartersville Medical Center Offers "This award recognizes

Class To Help Residents Kick an individual who has

Tobacco Habit

made a significant

contribution to the

Athens resident bikes to Atlanta to reflect on life, spread awareness
of colon cancer

improvement of services to public health clients. Dr. Grow was recognized for his efforts in keeping

Two more Georgia hospitals closing baby delivery units

the Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention Program open at

Lowndes County Health Young Adults Respond To Graphic Department last year

Cigarette Ads

when the program's

South Health District Director, William R. Grow, M.D., was recognized by the Georgia Public Health Association for his extensive work to maintain vital health services that benefit south Georgia residents.

budget was cut," says Diane Weems, M.D., awards committee chair and health

Work-Related Asthma Affects director for the Coastal Health District.

Millions of US Adults: CDC

Dr. Grow knew that many patients from other public health programs needed this

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treatment; therefore, he worked tirelessly to solicit outside support and helped open a clinic to serve patients with hypertension issues in conjunction with the Lowndes County Partnership for Health and the South Georgia Medical Center.

STD Awareness in Georgia Addresses Syphilis and HIV Infections

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The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) joins the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other partners to recognize National Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month.

DPH's STD program is advancing the fight against the spread of STDs alongside the National Coalition of STD Directors and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention for STD Awareness Month 2015.

This year, NCSD is addressing the continued increase of syphilis and HIV cases in the U.S.

"NCSD is very proud to be working with our members across the county, like Michelle Allen in Georgia, to honor National STD Awareness Month," stated Stephanie Arnold Pang, director of Policy and Communications for NCSD. "The best way to address these rising STD rates is to recommit to our best prevention tools: tried and true safe sex practices such as using condoms and increased STD testing and treatment."

Public Health Official Warns Residents to Take Precautions Against Rabies

Good intentions turned into tragedy when a Southwest Georgia resident using an online service adopted a dog that turned out to have rabies - and the person's existing pets didn't have upto-date vaccinations, said Southwest Health District Environmental Health Director Dewayne Tanner.

"As a result, this well-

intentioned individual

ended up losing beloved

pets that had been exposed DPH's Southwest Health District is encouraging residents to vaccinate

and could not be saved," he their pets for rabies as the spring season brings people and their pets

said. "That was not an

outdoors and in closer contact with animals infected with the virus.

outcome anybody wanted."

Further, when people are bitten or scratched by animals with rabies, they face unpleasant and expensive prophylaxis treatment.

App of the Week: Healthy Swimming
Getting ready to go swimming or working at the pool? Don't leave home without the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Healthy Swimming app!
Help keep yourself and your family healthy and safe during this summer's swim season. If you are a pool inspector, operator or lifeguard, this app will give you the latest information at your fingertips to answer patron questions.
We all share the water we play and swim in. Learn about the germs that we all bring into the places we swim, how they could make you and others sick, and how you can take a few easy and effective steps to help protect yourself and others.

Georgia Public Health Observances | April 2015

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