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Council of State Governments - National Conference

Events: Thursday, Dec 10, 2015, 12:00am -Thursday, Dec 10, 2015, 11:59pm

Founded in 1933, The Council of State Governments is our nation's only organization serving all three branches of state government. CSG is a region-based forum that fosters the exchange of insights and ideas to help state officials shape public policy. This offers unparalleled regional, national and...

APHA 2015 Annual Meeting & Exposition

Events: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015, 12:00am -Saturday, Oct 31, 2015, 11:59pm

APHA's Annual Meeting & Exposition is where public health professionals convene, learn, network and engage with peers. With the Annual Meeting, we strengthen the profession of public health, share the latest research and information, promote best practices and advocate for public health issues and...

Reimagining Health in Cities: New Directions in Urban Health Research and Action

Events: Thursday, Sep 10, 2015, 12:00am -Thursday, Sep 10, 2015, 11:59pm

The symposium will bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers focused on health in cities in the United States and worldwide. We expect this symposium to energize work on urban places and health, generate novel ideas for research, and stimulate debate on policy implications...

Webinar: Accreditation and Multi-Sector Contributions to Population Health Activities: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis

Presentation: October 20, 2016

Overview Local Health Departments (LHDs) undergoing the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation engage with a number of public health system partners to satisfy accreditation standards and pre-requisites. In addition, the accreditation process positions LHDs to more effectively...

Evaluating Inclusiveness in Multi-Sector Public Health Networks: The Case of Tribal Organizations

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Public health networks that include tribal organizations have the potential to better serve American Indian/Alaskan Native residents living in and outside of tribal lands. In this study, we aim to understand the variation of inclusion of tribal organizations to deliver public health services and the...

Research Agenda

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Multi-Sector Population Health Activities Reduce Income-related Disparities in Life Expectancy

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Landmark research by Raj Chetty and colleagues at Health Inequality finds wide geographic and intertemporal variation in the relationship between income and life expectancy in the U.S., using 1.4 billion administrative tax records from the IRS linked to nearly 7 million federal death records. Many...

Saddyna Belmashkan

Person: Program Manager

Ms. Belmashkan directs the creation of communication materials, digital publications, and serves as the social media manager. Prior to joining Systems for Action, she worked as a program evaluator for the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center. She has worked as a Research Assistant on cancer prevention, cancer screening, and injury prevention studies. Ms. Belmashkan received her MPH from the Colorado School of Public Health and BA from Texas Christian University.

The Comprehensive Care, Community, and Culture Program

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A health care system that fails to appreciate the need for public health and public policies that address social determinants of health is fundamentally limited. To address the complex dimensions and determinants of health, efforts to improve health must extend to sectors far beyond traditional...

Funding Opportunities

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2025 Call for Proposals: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism This funding opportunity is closed and funding decisions have been announced. S4A will not release another call for proposals. To learn about the grantees funded under this call for proposals, click here . The Robert...