The document calls for unity and collaboration between Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities in Hawaii to address COVID-19. It summarizes that government leaders have failed citizens by being slow to respond to the crisis, not working together effectively, and one in three COVID cases impacting Pacific Islanders. It calls on officials to take stronger, transparent leadership and get resources like contact tracers deployed quickly from Pacific Islander communities. Each day without action will lead to more cases, hospitalizations and deaths. It establishes a response team to improve COVID data and policies for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.
Health@Simcoe Muskoka is an annual look at both ongoing activities and the new public health issues emerging in our changing world. This document includes the agency’s annual report.
Health@Simcoe Muskoka is an annual look at both ongoing activities and the new public health issues emerging in our changing world. This document includes the agency’s annual report.
National Center for Health in Public Housing Presentation - May 2012DC Cancer Consortium
The National Center for Health in Public Housing recently sponsored the 2012 Health Care for Residents of Public Housing National Training Conference on May 1 -3 at the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia.
The Citywide Advisory Board Health Planning Committee presented a workshop entitled: Improving Health among Public Housing Residents in the District: A Resident Driven Process. The panel consisted of DCHA resident leader, Kenneth Council, who chairs this committee, and Committee members, Diana Lapp, Deputy Chief Medical Director of Unity Health Care; Robert Grom, Chief Development Office and Deputy Director of the DC Cancer Consortium; and Charles Debnam, Director of Health Education Services at Breathe DC. Julian Wilson of the Office of Resident Services moderated the panel discussion.
Panelists shared highlights of the committee’s work, including:
• Residents partnering with DCHA, the DC Department of Health and many other District health-related organizations to implement a resident-driven community health needs assessment
• Collaboration on efforts to address the District’s high rates of cancer and tobacco-related health issues.
• Coordination of data collection and reporting on specific health challenges facing DCHA public housing residents;
• Dissemination of information on health screenings and support services
• Collaboration with UDC as the lead applicant in the development of a grant application to HUD for improvement of asthma management
• Introduction of the Langston Gardening Club (LGC) to program managers at DOH which enabled LGC to make a grant application to expand its efforts and introduce community gardening to other public housing and low-income communities
• Because of the particular severity of health problems in Wards 7 and 8, partners have met with senior officials at both the Children’s National Medical Center and the United Medical Center (UMC) in an effort to coordinate services
Panelists were united in their agreement that much more work must be done to improve the health of DC’s public housing residents. Participants gained valuable knowledge to take back to their own comes
Based upon pre- and post- session testing, attendees reported that they found the workshop very useful and gave it a most favorable evaluation.
Hfg barbados costing community hiv final reportHFG Project
Barbados is currently experiencing tight fiscal constraints due to the slowdown of economic growth coupled with the fact that as a high-income country, it now no longer qualifies for concessional loan arrangements and grants from development partners. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has indicated a plan to reduce, and eventually cease, funding for HIV programs in Barbados, within the next two years. Given the current funding environment, the Ministry of Health and Wellness is looking for ways to continue financing the program through improved efficiency and by making evidence-based investments into cost-effective interventions. They are also seeking ways to identify new approaches to financing, which will allow continued health coverage and maintain the gains seen in the sector.
Civil society organizations (CSOs) began offering community-level HIV interventions in 2017, including testing, treatment, and social support to key populations. Some of these populations are highly stigmatized, so community outreach is perceived as necessary. Community-based services are expected to result in improved outcomes for these populations (e.g., reduced loss to follow-up and higher retention in care, improved adherence to treatment). This outreach could be particularly valuable in supporting the government’s adoption of the WHO-recommended Treat All strategy by helping to link persons living with HIV (PLHIV) to treatment and promote adherence.
This study assesses the cost of HIV-related services provision at the CSO level. It aims to benefit both the CSOs themselves and the government of Barbados. The government will be able to consider the results in deciding whether or how to allocate funds to CSOs to enable the CSOs to provide some key services when PEPFAR funding ceases. This study is one of several HFG activities implemented in four countries in the Caribbean to prepare the countries for donor transition.
COVID 19 Team-Based Approaches to Patient PopulationsCHC Connecticut
As presented as part of The Path Forward on Jan 28, 2021:
Stable housing and health outcomes are inextricably linked. When a patient loses housing – or is in jeopardy of losing housing– health outcomes suffer. COVID has led us to a moment of crisis. Thirty million to 40 million people in the United States face eviction. People of color are disproportionately impacted. Addressing housing as a social determinant of health is critical to achieving health equity. This webinar brings together experts from housing, healthcare and the intersection of both to share innovative short- and long-term solutions you can implement in your community.
National Center for Health in Public Housing Presentation - May 2012DC Cancer Consortium
The National Center for Health in Public Housing recently sponsored the 2012 Health Care for Residents of Public Housing National Training Conference on May 1 -3 at the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia.
The Citywide Advisory Board Health Planning Committee presented a workshop entitled: Improving Health among Public Housing Residents in the District: A Resident Driven Process. The panel consisted of DCHA resident leader, Kenneth Council, who chairs this committee, and Committee members, Diana Lapp, Deputy Chief Medical Director of Unity Health Care; Robert Grom, Chief Development Office and Deputy Director of the DC Cancer Consortium; and Charles Debnam, Director of Health Education Services at Breathe DC. Julian Wilson of the Office of Resident Services moderated the panel discussion.
Panelists shared highlights of the committee’s work, including:
• Residents partnering with DCHA, the DC Department of Health and many other District health-related organizations to implement a resident-driven community health needs assessment
• Collaboration on efforts to address the District’s high rates of cancer and tobacco-related health issues.
• Coordination of data collection and reporting on specific health challenges facing DCHA public housing residents;
• Dissemination of information on health screenings and support services
• Collaboration with UDC as the lead applicant in the development of a grant application to HUD for improvement of asthma management
• Introduction of the Langston Gardening Club (LGC) to program managers at DOH which enabled LGC to make a grant application to expand its efforts and introduce community gardening to other public housing and low-income communities
• Because of the particular severity of health problems in Wards 7 and 8, partners have met with senior officials at both the Children’s National Medical Center and the United Medical Center (UMC) in an effort to coordinate services
Panelists were united in their agreement that much more work must be done to improve the health of DC’s public housing residents. Participants gained valuable knowledge to take back to their own comes
Based upon pre- and post- session testing, attendees reported that they found the workshop very useful and gave it a most favorable evaluation.
Hfg barbados costing community hiv final reportHFG Project
Barbados is currently experiencing tight fiscal constraints due to the slowdown of economic growth coupled with the fact that as a high-income country, it now no longer qualifies for concessional loan arrangements and grants from development partners. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has indicated a plan to reduce, and eventually cease, funding for HIV programs in Barbados, within the next two years. Given the current funding environment, the Ministry of Health and Wellness is looking for ways to continue financing the program through improved efficiency and by making evidence-based investments into cost-effective interventions. They are also seeking ways to identify new approaches to financing, which will allow continued health coverage and maintain the gains seen in the sector.
Civil society organizations (CSOs) began offering community-level HIV interventions in 2017, including testing, treatment, and social support to key populations. Some of these populations are highly stigmatized, so community outreach is perceived as necessary. Community-based services are expected to result in improved outcomes for these populations (e.g., reduced loss to follow-up and higher retention in care, improved adherence to treatment). This outreach could be particularly valuable in supporting the government’s adoption of the WHO-recommended Treat All strategy by helping to link persons living with HIV (PLHIV) to treatment and promote adherence.
This study assesses the cost of HIV-related services provision at the CSO level. It aims to benefit both the CSOs themselves and the government of Barbados. The government will be able to consider the results in deciding whether or how to allocate funds to CSOs to enable the CSOs to provide some key services when PEPFAR funding ceases. This study is one of several HFG activities implemented in four countries in the Caribbean to prepare the countries for donor transition.
COVID 19 Team-Based Approaches to Patient PopulationsCHC Connecticut
As presented as part of The Path Forward on Jan 28, 2021:
Stable housing and health outcomes are inextricably linked. When a patient loses housing – or is in jeopardy of losing housing– health outcomes suffer. COVID has led us to a moment of crisis. Thirty million to 40 million people in the United States face eviction. People of color are disproportionately impacted. Addressing housing as a social determinant of health is critical to achieving health equity. This webinar brings together experts from housing, healthcare and the intersection of both to share innovative short- and long-term solutions you can implement in your community.
PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON PROGRESS IN THE NATIONAL EFFORT TO CONTAIN THE C...SABC News
The first issue is the re-opening of schools and the second is the management of the
resources that we have dedicated towards the fight against COVID-19.
This is a re-airing of Take a Stand for Haiti
Join host Sean Case, Senior Vice President of Peanut Labs, along with guest speakers:
- Katie D., Educator, American Red Cross
- Cathy Allin, President and CEO, Decision Insight
- Erika Harriford-McLaren, External Relations, ESOMAR
- Brandie Conforti, Director of Corporate Relations, Partners In Health
- and Stacy Howard, Community Relations Director, The Salvation Army.
The reality is our last seven years of economic decline has significantly increased inequality, and in healthcare this is most evident. The fact is that prior to this economic crisis more Barbadians were looking after their health out of their own pockets. Many preferred to attend private doctors because of the reduced waiting time and the privacy of attention.
Gov. Ige sent a letter to California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo in response to her August 2020 request for information about Hawaii's pandemic response.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/08/california-congresswoman-wants-answers-on-hawaiis-virus-response-effort/
Audit of the Department of the Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney’s Policies, Proc...Honolulu Civil Beat
This audit was conducted pursuant to Resolution 19-255,
requesting the city auditor to conduct a performance audit of the Honolulu Police Department and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney’s policies and procedures related to employee misconduct.
Audit of the Honolulu Police Department’s Policies, Procedures, and ControlsHonolulu Civil Beat
The audit objectives were to:
1. Evaluate the effectiveness of HPD’s existing policies, procedures, and controls to identify and respond to complaints or incidents concerning misconduct, retaliation, favoritism, and abuses of power by its management and employees;
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of HPD's management control environment and practices to correct errors and prevent any misconduct, retaliation, favoritism, and abuses of power by its
management and employees; and
3. Make recommendations to improve HPD’s policies, procedures, and controls to minimize and avoid future managerial and operational breakdowns caused by similar misconduct.
Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
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Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
ys jagan mohan reddy political career, Biography.pdfVoterMood
Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, often referred to as Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh, to Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (popularly known as YSR), a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and Y.S. Vijayamma.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
1. NHPI 3R Statement – August 13, 2020 pg. 1
NATIVE HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC ISLAND COMMUNITIES IN HAWAII CALL FOR UNITY AND COLLABORATION
“Every day they sit on these issues…more people will die”
August 13, 2020 Contact: Kim Ku‘ulei Birnie 808-383-1651
On behalf of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander COVID-19 Response, Recovery, and Resiliency Team,
we are calling out and calling to task our County and State Government officials, which includes offices
within the Hawaii State Department of Health, to take this pandemic seriously and push aside the politics.
Our government leaders continue to be slow and effective in their responses to this crisis. They are slow to
make critical public health decisions. They are quick to point the finger and pass the responsibility onto
other agencies and community organizations. They use the bureaucratic red tape they created as an excuse
for inaction. In short, they have failed the citizens of Hawai‘i. And, most negatively impacted by this failure
are our Pacific Islander communities. One in every three cases is a Pacific Islander.
We need our Government officials at the county and state levels to get their act together. We need strong,
honest, and transparent leadership. We need them to work together in an organized and expeditious
manner. We need them to quickly deploy the monies from the CARES Act and other resources to drastically
and quickly increase the number of contract tracers in our communities, and these contact tracers need to
come from our Pacific Islander communities to be effective. They need to ensure that people have both the
physical and financial means to quarantine effectively should they need it – this means a physical place to
quarantine and income for two weeks while under quarantine and ensuring they have a job to return to.
They need to employ and deploy community health workers from the communities most impacted, such as
Pacific Islanders, to work with families and communities in protecting themselves and stopping the spread.
Our Government leaders and agencies need to be held accountable and faithfully carry out the duties
imposed upon them.
Each day they sit on these issues, more and more people are getting COVID-19, more and more people are
being hospitalized, and more people will die. These are our family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Our
leaders can do better because we deserve better.
The Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Hawai‘i COVID-19 Response, Recovery & Resilience Team (NHPI 3R)
was established in May 2020, in alignment with the national NHPI Response Team, to improve the
collection and reporting of accurate data, identify and lend support to initiatives across the Hawaiian
2. NHPI 3R Statement – August 13, 2020 pg. 2
Islands working to address COVID-19 among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and unify to establish a
presence in the decision-making processes and policies that impact our communities.
The priority issues to our communities are:
• Contact tracing:
o Expedite the hiring of all the contract tracers trained (400 reported). The handful that are currently
hired are overwhelmed and inadequate in number to be effective. DOH not to hire as employees but
contract with established community providers
o Change the eligibility criteria for contact tracers to include persons with a high school degree plus
experience in community health
o Hire Pacific Islanders from the communities most affected to conduct education outreach and
contact tracing (or to work with contact tracers). They have the cultural and linguistic knowledge to
be effective in these communities
o Expand CTs to allow for other training opportunities (Pearson and John Hopkins)
o Identify and train to establish state-wide community-based contact tracing teams. Ask for $500K-
$1M
• Personal Protective Equipment:
o Masks and sanitizers need to be distributed to communities most affected and whose economic
situation makes it difficult for them to secure on their own.
• Assisting with quarantining:
o Provide free housing to people needing to be quarantined because many live in large
multigenerational homes that make it impossible to isolate themselves in that home and their
economic situation makes it impossible for them to afford a short-term rental
o Also, guarantee 2-weeks pay for those who need to quarantine and that employers will hold their
jobs
o Why participate in tracing if someone will be out of work and income for that time and possibly out
of a job
o SNAP benefits: If they are quarantined, no grocery delivery services currently accept SNAP cards
online for payment. In the long term, the state needs to push grocery stores to accept SNAP for
grocery delivery. In the short term, those affected need to be given gift cards to allow them to
purchase food and cover delivery costs
• Outreach:
o Targeted but culturally appropriate PSAs and other educational materials are needed. Already
developed by other PI national partners and need to use those to eliminate additional costs
o PI community health workers need to be hired to work directly with PI families, communities, and
organizations that work with PI communities and be included in the tracing team as an critical
component (if CHW are not trained as CTs)
3. NHPI 3R Statement – August 13, 2020 pg. 3
NHPI 3R Co-Leads:
Sheri Daniels
Jocelyn Howard
J. Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula
Felea‘i Tau
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