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Public health
practitioners and advocates gathered at the
Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade
Center in Marlboro, MA, on October 14, 2009, for the 13th
Ounce of Prevention conference
sponsored by the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health (DPH). Chief of Staff for the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services Caya Lewis gave the keynote address
and described the impact of the national Affordable
Care Act on prevention resources. The conference included three
plenary sessions and nine workshops on a variety of prevention-related topics,
including one on worksite wellness programs presented by Sue Potvin, R.N.,
of the Family Service Association. The
Commissioner's Leadership Award was presented to G. Dean Cleghorn of the
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. Community Health and Equity awards were given to exemplary organizations in
four of
the six DPH regions, including an award to Pat Bebo and Marcia Picard
for their work on the Children
In Balance project in Fall River. Click
here for a
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(Top row, left ) Department of Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach provides details of recent and anticipated changes in public health resources related to federal funding. (Top row, right) Caya Lewis of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlines some of the new resources that will soon be available to local communities in addressing public health challenges. (Middle row, left) Tobacco Control Coordinator Marilyn Edge shares lunch with Michael Coughlin of the DPH Local Public Health Coordination Office. (Middle row, center) Assistant DPH Commissioner Goeff Wilkinson and Office of Community Prevention Director Cathy O'Connor, right, pose for a photo with Community Leadership Award winners Marcia Picard and Pat Bebo. (Middle row, right) Partners for a Healthier Community steering committee chairperson Wendy Garf-Lipp, left, is joined by Marcia Picard, Pat Bebo and Pauline Hamel at a plenary session led by Harold Cox of the Boston University School of Public Health. (Bottom row, left and center) Sue Potvin, R.N. of the Family Service Association is joined by Maria Bettancourt and Mary Giannetti for her presentation on the FSA worksite wellness program. (Bottom row, right) DPH Director of Community Health Access and Promotion Jewel Mullen, M.D. holds up a model of a "silo" that needs to be broken down through partnerships as Office of Health Equity director Georgia Simpson May listens during a plenary session. |
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video of their award presentation.