Resource Type: Coffee Chats

Coffee Chat: Using Local Data to Improve Health and Advance Health Equity

Posted on October 24, 2023

In this coffee chat hosted by the CHOICES Community of Practice, guest speakers Dr. Susan Carlson and Magdalena Pankowska highlighted the resources and data available through PLACES — a collaboration between the CDC, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation that provides local data estimates for all U.S. counties, places, census tracts, and ZIP Code tabulation areas — showcased the 2023 data release, and shared how these resources can be used to inform work around healthy eating, active living, and advancing health equity.

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Coffee Chat: Cost-Effective Communication Resources to Engage Your Community

Posted on September 28, 2023

In this coffee chat, guest speakers Suzanne Gates, Strategic Communication Team Lead, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Jana Scoville, Project Director, State and Community Health Media Center/Banyan Communications, shared about free and low-cost resources and best practices to support public health professionals in effectively communicating their work to their community.

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Coffee Chat: Communicating for Change: Strategies & Tips for Sharing Public Health Science 

Posted on July 27, 2023

In this coffee chat, Amanda Yarnell, Senior Director for the Center for Health Communication and Instructor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an experienced science journalist, shared tips and strategies to add to your communications toolbox.

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Coffee Chat: What’s Up with School Wellness? Putting Physical Activity Policies into Practice

Posted on June 22, 2023

In this coffee chat, Nicole Good, School Wellness Specialist at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, shared how wellness policies can support implementation of evidence-based physical activity policies and programs and highlighted best practices for moving physical activity policies into practice.

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Coffee Chat: Improving Social Determinants of Health: Year 2 Getting Further Faster Project Findings

Posted on May 18, 2023

In this coffee chat, partners from National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) shared key findings from the second year of their ongoing project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Improving Social Determinants of Health – Getting Further Faster.

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Coffee Chat: MAPPing your way to data-based decision-making

Posted on February 23, 2023

In this coffee chat, Anna Clayton, Senior Program Analyst from the National Association of County and City Health Officials, provides an overview of the recent updates to the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnership (MAPP) framework and highlights available resources and tools to support community health improvement work.

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