August 2020
August 4
When Your Help is Perceived as Harm: Making Sense of Public Reactions to Public Health Action
This is part of the new ASTHO Leadership Check-Up Series: Developing Your Resiliency as a Public Health Professionall. This one-hour webinar provides public health officials with an opportunity to understand how the national climate around COVID-19 and health is causing moral injury: the betrayal by people or institutions that should have been trusted to do the right thing. We will explore how leadership is impacted by moral injury and what we can do to support ourselves and our staff during this tumultuous time.
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August 5
Data Communications: COVID-19 Domestic Travel Public Opinion Poll Results
Invitation only. Want to know how Americans feel about domestic travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what precautions they are considering? This webinar highlights the results of a recent poll of persons on domestic travel issues—and what these results mean moving forward.
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August 11
August State Environmental Health Directors Virtual Convening
Invitation only. This virtual session is for the ASTHO state environmental health directors (SEHD) peer group, federal partners, and other ASTHO NGO partners and will consist of two panels covering federal partner response to COVID-19 pandemic, updates on how federal partners plan to support the ongoing response work of the SEHD peer group, and SEHD peer group members describing how they have approached various issues at the intersection of COVID-19 and environmental health in their health agencies.
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August 19
The Death of Expertise and What it Means for Public Health Today
In this lively conversation, author Tom Nichols, PhD will address the rejection of expertise in the Information Age where people are exposed to more information than ever before and the implications for public health institutions and professionals responding to COVID-19.
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August 20
Crisis Leadership and Resiliency: A Trauma-Informed Approach to COVID-19 Response
This is part of the new ASTHO Leadership Check-Up Series: Developing Your Resiliency as a Public Health Professional. This one-hour workshop identifies public health leadership strategies to minimize the impact of anxiety on staff, as well as techniques to promote resiliency and self-care in a trauma-informed way.
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