📅 This Saturday, April 20th, from 9 am to 1 pm in Germantown, MD: No-questions-asked gun buyback event. Exchange your working guns for 💳 gift cards. Click the link for more details: montgomerycountymd.gov/SAO/. Let's make our community safer together! 🌟 Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office

Also during the online Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) news conference, Exec. Dir. Chrissie Juliano addressed the vital need for flexible funding when responding to a #measles outbreak or other #PublicHealth emergencies.
Access BCHC's board statement on measles:
bigcitieshealth.org/measles-board-…

Great position in a much need space - #PublicHealth #Advocacy

Yet another example of how we need to learn more from other countries... We need to get over our #Stigma in this country and just help people who need it get access to life saving treatment to prevent #overdose and #death . statnews.com/2024/03/26/opi… via STAT

Amazing #Data #Leadership from Dr. Philip Huang and the team at Dallas County HHS!

Looking forward to being part of this with our friends at Prevention Institute Drexel Urban Health Collaborative Maricopa County Public Health!

And it's great to have new leadership to support Big Cities Health Coalition's work. Thanks to Marvia Jones, PhD-MPH and Dave Margolius for stepping up!

I am so looking forward to continuing to work with these great Big Cities Health Coalition leaders (not pictured are Gretchen Musicant, our treasurer, and Sara Cody from County of Santa Clara Public Health Department). Thanks to them for helping our organization succeed and grow!

Along with Dr. Taylor (one of our members), we are profoundly alarmed by the preventable measles outbreaks appearing across the US. See our board’s statement: bigcitieshealth.org/measles-board-…

'Those who need #methadone the most are often the people who can access it the least.' ⬇️ Read this new piece from STAT that brilliantly and devastatingly illustrates why Congress needs to pass the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act now. #MOTAA

Today’s must-read ➡️ The mayors of Columbus and Cleveland issued a joint statement on why it’s so important to restrict #menthol sales at the national level.

#VaccinesSaveLives

#PublicHealth is as much about #Policy as it is about #Prevention of and response to disease.

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“The next piece for #PublicHealth [to tackle] is how do we turn lessons learned and investments during these very challenging times into progress moving forward when federal resources seem to be drying up again?” —Chrissie Juliano in The Nation's Health ➡️ thenationshealth.org/content/54/1/1…

Honored to join HHS.gov Secretary Xavier Becerra today for a round table discussion with Rep. Joyce Beatty and other community leaders on reproductive health care.

The drumbeat of support for getting rid of #menthol continues. This week, two former surgeons general added their plea to the Biden Administration to finalize FDA's proposed rule to end menthol cigarette sales nationally. statnews.com/2024/02/09/men…

Powerful recovery voices lead open letter to Congress, urging access to methadone treatment through addiction specialists. Let's challenge status quo & support recovery. Read their letter Energy and Commerce Committee Energy & Commerce Democrats House Judiciary GOP House Judiciary Dems HELP Committee Dems Senate HELP Committee GOP

This is progress. But we can’t stop now. We must pass #MOTA ASAP

'The story of Columbus, Ohio, shows why federal rules to end the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars nationwide remain so essential,' writes Chrissie Juliano of @bigcitieshealth. wapo.st/3Sw2nfs