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The Michigan Public Health Week Partnership invites you to join them in celebrating Public Health Week in Michigan by nominating someone for the annualHometown Health Hero award. The Hometown Health Hero award is presented to individuals and/or organizations that have made significant contributions to preserve and/or improve their community’s health.The responsibility of public health is to protect and promote the health of communities through education, policy, and assessment. Making communities safe and healthy is public health's top priority. Everyone can make communities healthier, safer, and better for all.For the past 22 years, the Hometown Health Hero award has shown a spotlight on individuals and/or organizations that have made significant and measurable contributions to preserve and improve the health of their communities.Awardees are selected solely from nominations received. The only way for someone to receive this award is to be nominated. If you know a person or organization that deserves recognition as a Hometown Health Hero for their efforts to improve the health of their community, submit a nomination by using the link below:Hometown Health Hero Award Nomination FormComplete this nomination form no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET), December 19, 2025.Nominations must be receivedby 5 p.m. (ET) December 19, 2025. Late nominations will not be accepted.Awards will be presented on 11:30 am on March 18, 2026, in the Mackinac Room of the Anderson House Office Building.

SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2025 - PLEASECLICK HEREFOR MORE INFORMATIONThe abstract submission period for the 2025 Public Health Law Conference is officially open! This conference will be held September 16-18, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency at Seattle’s Southport.We welcome abstracts for individual presentations, panel presentations, Ignite sessions, or poster sessions. We are seeking submissions related to these priority areas: Health and Racial Health Equity; Advocacy and Community Engagement; Public Health Authority and Systems; Harm Reduction; Data Access, Sharing and Privacy; and Emerging Issues.Public health practitioners, attorneys, researchers, health care providers, and advocates working in public health, health care and other sectors, as well as community-led organizations and coalitions, are all encouraged to submit abstracts.The following priority areas include examples of subtopics for the purpose of illustration. We welcome relevant abstract submissions not specifically mentioned on this list:Health and Racial Health Equity:structural racism; implementing antiracism in public health; equitable and culturally inclusive approaches to mental health and well-being; health impacts of incarceration; just transitions, disparate health impacts of climate change; LGBTQ+ health, reproductive and sexual health, maternal health; disability justice; food security; rural health; regulating menthol cigarettes; and Tribal health.Advocacy and Community Engagement:community-led health initiatives; strategies for enhancing community engagement in public health; cross-sectoral collaboration to bridge gaps in health disparities; public health advocacy; ballot initiatives; messaging to overcome mis/disinformation and information resistance and make the affirmative case for public health.Public Health Authority and Systems:public health authority beyond emergencies; litigation and other legal tools; Medicaid in non-expansion states; operationalizing racial equity tools and frameworks; implicit bias in public health law; politicizing of public health measures; increasing legal knowledge and skills in the public health workforce; immunization requirements; and legal epidemiology.Harm Reduction: harm reduction laws and policies; strengthening community-based harm reduction organizations, substance use disorder (SUD)prevention; cannabis legalization and regulation; naloxone distribution; overdose prevention centers; public health to support people who use drugs rather than punitive responses (includes decriminalization); defining the SUD treatment industry.Data Access, Sharing and Privacy: Tribal public health data; laws around the use of artificial intelligence; cross sector data sharing; equity in public health data; data disaggregation; trends in data privacy/data sharing; and data modernization initiatives and public health.Emerging Issues: the next public health emergency; climate action plans; indoor and outdoor air quality; artificial intelligence; emerging legislative trends impacting racial equity, vaccination and immunization; civic engagement; judicial decisions impacting racial health equity, the health of LGBTQ+ communities, access to health care, gun control, and affirmative action.

WIC is excited to share the opportunity for community partners (working in maternal child health field with WIC eligible families) the opportunity to participate in one of the many breastfeeding trainings. Funding for these trainings is provided by WIC Operational Adjustment grant funds.Registration  for all courses can be found at:MWR OA Grant-Funded Breastfeeding TrainingsAbout registration:Please read through each of the clickable tabs on each course webpageMWRTrainings.com. Most of the questions you have about a training are answered there.Please only register for ONE date/series per training. Registering for more than one training date doesn’t increase your chances of getting in.Attendees will receive an email either confirming or denying their attendance at the specific training.Once approved to attend a training, all communication will come from the training organization, not from MPHI. Please watch for these emails.