JHA leaps into 2012
There is a Danish tradition to jump from your couch or chair at the stroke of midnight of the new year. It signifies leaving your worries behind from the previous year and leaping into the new year with all your hopes of exciting and better things to come. JHA leapt into 2012 with excitement. 2011 [...]
Read MoreJHA is off to APHA: Health equity at work
JHA is presenting at the American Public Health Association conference in DC on November 1 at 2:30 pm. We would love to see you there. Health equity at work: Training at Whatcom County Health Department Linn Gould (JHA), Liz Mogford (Western Washington University), and Astrid Newell (Whatcom County Health Department) This session highlights Whatcom County Health Department’s [...]
Read MoreJHA receives a community health impacts subaward
JHA is proud and excited to announce that it is collaborating with the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (www.duwamishcleanup.org/) on an innovative community-based project to improve health in the Duwamish Valley (DV), Seattle, Washington. The DV Healthy Communites Project grant was awarded from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) Program (www.epa.gov/care/basic.htm). JHA’s Executive Director, [...]
Read MoreInterested in health equity training?
In the past few years, many people (teachers, health department staff, promotora trainers, doctors, etc) have approached JHA and remarked that the health equity concepts that we teach and promote are so new that they could use some training. JHA is exploring the idea of conducting a health equity training workshop in Seattle in August, 2011. The [...]
Read MoreJHA in the news
JHA and its executive director, Linn Gould were mentioned in an article published in the Seattle PI and InvestigateWest by Carol Smith about the health impacts of people who live in Environmental Justice communities located in a highly industrialized part of Seattle that includes the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site.
Read More
