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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:22:00 -0500
From: Blakely Pomietto <BPomietto@SOPHE.ORG>
Subject: Update: 9th Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit
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Hello, HEDIRland -
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Wanted to let you all know that late Friday afternoon, 2/17, we were able to add
more rooms to the room block for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights for the 9th
Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit, AND extend the cut off date for
reservations in the room block to FEBRUARY 24 at the same room rate of $169. (Be
sure to identify as being with the Summit to get the room rate!)
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Details about the Summit are below, and continuously updated at=20 http://www.healtheducationadvocate.org
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Blakely
Blakely R. Pomietto, MPH, CHES
Director, Environmental Health Programs
Society for Public Health Education
750 First Street, NE Suite 910
Washington, DC 20002
Ph: 202.408.9804
Fax: 202.408.9815
E-mail: bpomietto@sophe.org
Website: www.sophe.org
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SOPHE 2006 Midyear Scientific Conference
Betting on Health Education: Increasing the Odds for Collaboration
May 4-7, 2006
Flamingo Hilton Hotel
Las Vegas, NV
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SOPHE 57th Annual Meeting
Health and Human Rights
November 2-4, 2006
Sheraton Boston Hotel
Boston, MA
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SAVE THE DATE!
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9th Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit
March 11-13, 2006
Holiday Inn Capitol Hotel, Washington, DC
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<http://www.hsc.usf.edu/CFH/cnheo>=20
Sponsored by the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations
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Join Advocacy Minded Health Education Colleagues Where You Will:
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* Receive advocacy training from advocacy & legislative experts.
* Discuss priority health issues, such as eliminating health
disparities, No Child Left Behind authorization and appropriation for CDC's
Division of Adolescent and School Health. =20
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The Health Education Advocacy Summit is three day skill-building experience,
where participants get help sharpening their advocacy skills. The Summit
features basic, intermediate and advanced-level advocacy training, message
crafting of issue-specific legislative priorities by experienced professionals
from the government relations staffs of key public health organizations, and
congressional visits-either individually or in state delegations-with members of
Congress or key congressional staff.
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Lodging - Call now, and before February 24, to make your sleeping room
reservation and enjoy the discounted room rate of $169 single/double
plus tax at (202) 479- 4000. Ask for the room block code HEA or state
that you are with the Health Education Advocacy Summit to get the discounted
room rate. Reservations made after February 17 may be honored on a space
available basis and without the discounted rate.
Summit registration deadline is February 28, 2006!
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Stay tuned to http://www.healtheducationadvocate.org/Summit/ for further
details.
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Kindest regards,
Carmen J.=20
Carmen Jewel Head, MPH, CHES
Director, School Health Programs
Society for Public Health Education
750 First St., NE Suite 910
Washington, DC 20002
Phone 202/408.9804
Fax 202/408.9815
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Please visit our website www.sophe.org <http://www.sophe.org/>=20
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Betting on Health Education Increasing the Odds for Collaboration
SOPHE's 2006 Midyear Scientific Conference
May 4-7, 2006
Las Vegas, NV
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
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#177
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:19:00 -0500
From: Nancy Eichner <neichner@GWU.EDU>
Subject: News Alert, February 21, 2006 -- Supreme Court to Rule on Partial-Birth
Law
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The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) News Alert -- February
21, 2006
Supreme Court to Rule on Partial-Birth Law:
The United States Supreme Court said today that the justices will hear arguments
in a case to decide whether the federal government can constitutionally ban
second- or third-trimester abortions in which a fetus is partially removed from
the womb and the skull is punctured or crushed.
http://www.healthinschools.org
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools http://www.healthinschools.org
Nancy Eichner
Senior Program Manager
202-466-3396 fax: 202-466-3467
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