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Volume 2020-12-17
CHI TIPbits
Timely Information and Points (TIP) for public health community providers from the Center for Health Innovation, New Mexico's Public Health Institute.
Greetings from the Center for Health Innovation (CHI), New Mexico's Public Health Institute. You've been recognized as one of the leading public health professionals in our state, which is why you have been sent our newest publication TIPbits. Every month, we will be sending out timely information and points to aid your efforts to foster better public health in the state. Feel free to share them with your networks and community. Thanks for all you do for New Mexico, and let us lend you a helping hand with TIPbits!
Funding/Sustainability
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has a new funding opportunity for advocates working to advance innovative policies to improve food environments in schools, grocery stores, federal/ state/ local programs to improve public health for low-income families and communities of color. Applications accepted through Dec. 31, 2020. Questions? Contact Noelle Battle at nbattle@cspinet.org.
The National Environmental Health Partnership Council (with APHA and CDC) will offer an Advancing Environmental Justice through Technical Assistance Mini Grants program of $10,000 each to three community-based organizations working to advance environmental justice in their communities. Application deadline is Jan. 8, 2021. Click here for info and application.
Webinars and Trainings
Improve communication skills and sign up for a free learning account at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) for courses like: Quick Tips for Media Interviews with reporters; Top Tips for Zoom Video Calls; and How to Write an Op-Ed. Click the links to register for each course and find more learning opportunities.
Working on maternal and child health? The NY Academy of Medicine and Penn Medicine are holding a free, virtual Maternal and Child Health Equity Summit, from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.(MST), Tues., Jan. 12, 2021. Gain cutting-edge research and action steps on MCH equity, the role of quality care and community. Register here.
Resources
Looking for Data for Community Action? CDC has launched PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), with an interactive map website providing small area data estimates (county, census tract, ZIP Code Tabulation Area levels) for the 27 health measures found in the 500 Cities Project. Please remember you can access much of these same data, and more, in the New Mexico Community Data Collaborative website.
Concerned with homelessness, housing and evictions? Check out Build Health Places Network’s new factsheet Preventing and Ending Homelessness: Community Development’s Role, downloadable here. The 4-pages include an evidence-based case studies and tools to use. 
The November edition of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has some timely articles for those in the public health field, such as: Reimagining Public Health in the Aftermath of a Pandemic and Public Health Expertise Cannot Be Improvised.
Engaging Youth: The Tamarack Institute created a brief guide with youth leaders from youth-serving organizations that describes for public health workers principles and practices to promote meaningful youth engagement in community change work. Click here.
Interested in climate change and health? The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s new report Climate Change & Health: Assessing State Preparedness assessed all 50 states on their level of preparedness for health effects of climate change, based on: vulnerability, public health preparedness, and climate-related adaptation. New Mexico is more vulnerable than most states, and moderately prepared for public health consequences. In public health preparedness, our state ranks low in social capital cohesion, medium in cross-sector community collaboration, and ranks highest in health surveillance epidemiological investigation. 
COVID-19 Vaccinations
Wondering About the COVID Vaccines: As we may have a limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines available in 2021, public health staff need accurate vaccine information. See this link from the CDC on providing messages to the public about COVID-19 vaccines--how a vaccine won’t give someone the COVID-19 virus, or alter your DNA, or cause someone to test positive for COVID-19.

The Center for Health Innovation TIPbits staff would like your input and feedback so we can make this email more relevant to your public health needs. Please send comments to either Christine Hollis (cahollis49@gmail.com) or Kendra Milligan (kmilligan@chi-phi.org).