Health Impact Assessment on Duwamish River Superfund cleanup for JHA
JHA is excited to announce that we are collaborating with the University of Washington School of Public Health and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coaliton to conduct a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site Cleanup Plan. An HIA is defined as a combination of procedures, methods, and tools that systematically judges the potential and sometimes […]
Read MoreJHA 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 […]
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