Celebrate CT's Public Health Champions on April 10!
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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Posted by: Jon Noel
We are less than 3 weeks away from the 2014 CPHA Public Health Awards & Networking Breakfast. Come celebrate Connecticut's Public Health Champions with us on Thursday, April 10th at Quinnipiac University, Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in North Haven, CT. Online registration is open! Visit www.cpha.info for more information and to register for the event.
The C.E.-A. Winslow Award winner is William G Faraclas, Dr.P.H.
 Professor William G. Faraclas, is founder of the Public Health program at Southern Connecticut State University, where he chaired the Department of Public Health for 33 years. Dr. Faraclas is Director of SCSU's International Field Studies in Health Program, through which he has taken 26 groups of students to Guatemala and Mexico, and Director of the Environmental Health Training Program, a workforce development collaborative with the Connecticut Department of Public Health. He is recipient of the J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teaching Award (2004) and the Robert E. Jirsa Service Award (2013)-two of the University's top honors. He has been a member of the CPHA Board of Directors since 1985. (He is married to Kara Faraclas and has four children and two grandchildren.)
And don't miss these NPHW events sponsored by the CT Department of Public Health Connecticut’s Public Health System: A Google Hangout On Air April 7, 2014, 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM (Online event) Google Hangouts is a video chat program that hosts panel discussions with an online audience. Panelists will discuss municipal workforce needs in urban and suburban settings and how schools of public health can prepare to meet those needs. DPH Data Day- An Informational Forum on Public Health Data April 7, 2014, 9:30 AM- 11:00 AM, The Lyceum, 227 Lawrence St, Hartford, CT Attendees will hear from several programs across DPH that maintain important databases and information management systems in the areas of infectious disease, chronic disease, hospitalizations, maternal and child health and environmental health. To register for either of these events please send your name, the organization you represent, and your contact information to [email protected]. Please indicate whether you are registering for “Data Day” or “Google Hangout” in the subject and body of the email. To learn more about Lead Public Health, visit http://www.ct.gov/dph/leadpublichealth. |
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