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Viewpoints on the 1st Transatlantic GPCR Symposium pertaining to Early-Career Investigators.
The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has built a presence in Tremont, a historically redlined neighborhood located in Bronx, NYC. As part of an agency-wide commitment to explicitly name racism as a threat to healthy communities, DOHMH has sought opportunities to educate and engage in discussion about historical and current structural racism.

Between January and September 2018, DOHMH exhibited Undesign the Redline, a pictorial timeline and historical analysis of redlining, in its Tremont office. mTOR inhibitor The exhibit exposed neglected history, making concrete the concept of structural racism.

DOHMH staff led 101 tours for 950 visitors, including employees, community partners, and residents. Tours were given in English and Spanish in three 2-month cycles over 8 months. Tour guides also facilitated interactive workshops with youth groups, community-based organizations, and teams from city agencies to engage participants in the design and ownership of new systems intended to "undesioffered a concrete opportunity to learn about and discuss structural racism. Exhibit tours had immediate- and long-term impacts on participants and contributed to sustainable changes internal to DOHMH work. This work presents a concrete practice to make injustice visible and engage in open conversation about structural racism to build community trust.
To examine levels of expenditure and needed investment in public health at the local level in the state of Ohio pre-COVID-19.

Using detailed financial reporting from fiscal year (FY) 2018 from Ohio's local health departments (LHDs), we characterize spending by Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS). We also constructed estimates of the gap in public health spending in the state using self-reported gaps in service provision and a microsimulation approach. Data were collected between January and June 2019 and analyzed between June and September 2019.

Eighty-four of the 113 LHDs in the state of Ohio covering a population of almost 9 million Ohioans.

In FY2018, Ohio LHDs spent an average of $37 per capita on protecting and promoting the public's health. Approximately one-third of this investment supported the Foundational Areas (communicable disease control; chronic disease and injury prevention; environmental public health; maternal, child, and family health; and access to and linkages with health cath, and social services investments. The current environment of COVID-19 may dramatically increase need, making understanding and growing public health investment critical.
The older adult population in the United States is experiencing unprecedented growth and is accompanied by a parallel increase in the health challenges of these individuals. Public health has, historically, not played a large role in older adult health, but given its contributions to longevity, it makes sense for public health to now prioritize the health of this population.

With the goal of public health prioritization of healthy aging, Trust for America's Health, with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation, launched an initiative to demonstrate the crucial roles public health departments can play to improve the health of older adults.

An Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) Learning and Action Network was created to provide local health departments in Florida with training and technical assistance through in-person and virtual activities, as well as access to events, opportunities, and resources to increase expertise and capacity to address healthy aging. AFPHS Network participants attende and analysis, collaboration with aging sector stakeholders, and adapting policies and programs to become age-friendly.
Governments at all levels work to ensure a healthy public, yet financing, organization, and delivery of public health services differ across the United States. A 2012 Institute of Medicine Finance report provided a series of recommendations to ensure a high-performing and adequately funded public health infrastructure.

This review examines the influence of the Finance report's 10 recommendations on public health policy and practice.

This review utilized peer-reviewed and gray literature published since 2012.

Documents that address at least one of the Finance report's 10 recommendations and contain information on either official actions taken in response to the Finance report or evidence of the report's influence on the practice community.

Of 2394 unique documents found, a total of 56 documents met the eligibility criteria. Review of these 56 documents indicated that the most substantial activity related to the recommendations was focused on the "minimum package of public health services" concept anding for an increased investment in governmental public health. Efforts are bolstered by informed public health practitioners and stakeholders but often stymied by policy makers who must balance complex competing issues and priorities. Although many successes have occurred, further work is needed toward improving investment in the nation's public health.
The decision to initiate a syringe service program or expand to a supervised use site is often influenced by local public support or opposition.

The purpose of this study was to better understand public attitudes to local syringe service programs to inform the possibility of expanding services.

We surveyed a sample of registered voters (n = 690) in the 8 counties in the state of Colorado with existing syringe service programs.

Respondents were asked about their awareness of and attitudes toward syringe service programs and supervised use sites.

More than three-fourths of respondents reported they were familiar with syringe service programs, but only a quarter knew they were legal, despite all survey respondents living near an operating program. Nearly one in 3 respondents thought a syringe service program or a supervised use site makes a community better, and a majority (57%) thought supervised use sites should be legal in their state. There were significant differences in attitudes toward the benefits and risks of syringe service programs by political party affiliation.

Understanding the level of community knowledge and support for syringe service programs, as well as the reasons for opposition, can be helpful in addressing community concerns when seeking to initiate or expand services.
Understanding the level of community knowledge and support for syringe service programs, as well as the reasons for opposition, can be helpful in addressing community concerns when seeking to initiate or expand services.
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