T.G.I.M.

Do you know about the Monday Movement?

It's Monday here at APHA and I was excited to pick up some Meatless Monday schwag, since I've been observing Meatless Mondays since I started the MPH program two years ago.  But today I learned that it's now going beyond Meatless Mondays to Healthy Monday.

The idea is that Monday is a great day to reset; the weekend or a hectic week is in the past and Monday is a time to engage or re-engage in a health-supporting activity. People tend to do this naturally, but we as health educators can leverage this tendency to facilitate moving people from thinking about a change (or contemplation, thank you Dr. Prochaska) to action, or even from precontemplation to contemplation to action by educating others about the Monday Movement. Learn more about it at http://www.mondaycampaigns.org.

We're Not Buying It - New Message from the Prevention Institute

Check out this new ad from the Prevention Institute that Larry Cohen showed us during a panel discussion on Friday at SOPHE 2011. The ad was recently produced to help stop marketing junk food to kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab9zbqHJ_p4

Watch...and tell us what you think.

Who's Who at SOPHE 2011

The San Francisco Rebel Giant, Brian Wilson, made a special appearance and put smiles on the faces of the SOPHE attendees!

The energetic Todd Park from Health and Human Services addresses the power of mobile health innovations to improve the nation's health over the next decade in America.

Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services addresses SOPHE attendees about winnable battles in public health.

Photo Opp with Honorary Fellow Lecturer Dr. James O. Prochaska, Dr. Daniel Perales, and Mary Nacionales, SOPHE National Treasurer. Dr. Prochaska is best known for developing the Transtheoretical Model. Also in attendance are Erica Eilenberg, Danielle Cohen, Morgan Holland, and Rebecca Krueger, current MPH students.

Drizzly Day in D.C.

While the weather's a little gray in the Washington, D.C. area, it's not damping the spirits of health educators and other public health students and professionals as we await the SOPHE and APHA annual meetings! The damp weather gave us good reason to explore through the underground passages throughout downtown Arlington today, where we saw public health at work...and the conferences haven't even begun yet!

See more public health messages from the Arlington underground.