HRA in the News — Summer 2010
International Healthy Aging Symposium
Sweden, the United States, and Japan will be the focus of an International Symposium on Healthy Aging at UC Berkeley on September 13. Cosponsors include UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, School of Social Welfare (Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services), and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley.
National Health Information Gold Award
In August, HRA won a National Health Information Gold Award for Healthy Steps In Silicon Valley, prepared with and for The Health Trust in Santa Clara County, California. Healthy Steps is a guide to staying active for adults 50 years and older, and was produced in English and Spanish.
New Perspectives Released
Preventing Toxic Exposures: Workplace Lessons in Safer Alternatives is the second of two Perspectives issues supported by the California Department of Public Health. Its release was followed by an Op Ed post in the California Progress Report, by HRA Policy Director Holly Brown-Williams.
Multipurpose Prevention Technologies
Work continues on the development of multipurpose prevention technologies for sexual and reproductive health, the focus of an international symposium at UC Berkeley in early 2009. HRA Research Director Susan Ivey was a symposium planner and contributed to a followup report, Saving Lives with Multipurpose Prevention Technologies. Highlights from the Microbicides 2010 Conference in Pittsburgh this May are now available from CAMI (Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations). Planning is under way for a 2011 international symposium, tentatively scheduled for fall.
Emergency Preparedness Communication for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Communities
Organizations and agencies that serve Deaf and hard-of-hearing people met for the first time in Berkeley on May 23-24 to discuss the creation of an all-hazards emergency communication infrastructure that will improve preparedness communication not only for Deaf and hard-of-hearing populations, but ultimately for everyone. Read more...
