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1. Atima, Honduras: Transformative Health Education
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By Jody Gan, MPH, CHES | October 4, 2018
Instructor, Department of Health Studies, American UniversityThree years ago, I became the first health educator to join a volunteer brigade providing medical and public health services to Honduras. For two decades, the Organization for Community Health Outreach (OCHO), based in Baltimore, Maryland, has sent a 40-person medical team to Atima, in the province of Santa Barbara. This is a mountain community of about 16,000 people in one of the most underserved and remote areas of the country.
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2. "Out of the Office": Keeping Our Sanity at Work
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By BA Laris, MPH | June 9, 2016
Research Associate, ETRHow do we keep our sanity at work? How many times have you heard that question?
How do we provide the best services and products possible? How do we meet the needs of our clients and customers? Our co-workers, our supervisors? Our Board of Directors and funders? How do we do all this and still maintain a healthy family and social life?
Yes. I admit it. I use my “out of the office” message regularly!
The first week of June every year, I spend seven days on my bicycle, riding with over 2,000 other cyclists. We travel the 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles as part of AIDS Lifecycle. We raise money and awareness in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
- By B.A. Laris, MPH
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