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NEHA Launches Online Community The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) under- stand how important it is for you to be able to connect, collaborate, and learn from your peers. To help meet this need, we are thrilled to introduce our new and ocial NEHA online Community that is exclusively for NEHA members to engage in discussions with and learn from peers around the world at any time. You might be wondering, “What is Community and what exactly can I do in this online space?” Here are just a few of the ways you can participate: • Learn from your peers : Start discussions with fellow members by creating posts that your peers can provide their thoughts on. • Share important resources : Upload a document that you think others might benefit from. • Get and give answers : Use Community to provide your thoughts by posting questions, answering questions, and reply- ing to posts. • Find other members : Use the Community directory to search for fellow members by name or location. NEHA members were sent an email invitation to Community at the end of October 2022. If you did not get that email or have not joined, you can access Community by logging in to MyNEHA and clicking on Community Site under Membership on the top toolbar. You can also access the site directly at https://community. neha.org. You will use your MyNEHA login for Community and you can follow the prompts to activate and set up your account. You can update your profile information, add a description about yourself, upload a photo, and edit your privacy and notification settings. Community is set by default to email you a digest of con- versations daily. You can change that to weekly, real-time, or turn o any future notifications. Finally, make sure to bookmark the Community link so you can easily access the site in the future. Log in to Community to explore this exciting new platform and start connecting with your peers today! And if you are not a NEHA member, join now at www.neha.org/membership to gain access to this new resource. We look forward to seeing you in Community! NEHA Introduces Spark! Spark! is an ongoing series of member-only webinars available through our new Community platform that is designed to build skills in short 1/2-hr segments. Each webinar provides 0.5 con- tinuing education contact hours toward a NEHA credential. The focus of the current Spark! series is on leadership. Leadership is an important skill for environmental health professionals at all levels of their careers. Possessing the essential skills to handle and adapt to a wide range of situations and demonstrate leadership abil- ity and aptitude can help you be even more successful in your career.
All webinars are held at 12 p.m. ET and can be accessed by NEHA members in Community at https://community.neha.org. InFORM Regional Meetings In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion, we are hosting a series of Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) Regional Meetings in early 2023. The InFORM Regional Meetings are held on the intervening years of the larger, national InFORM Conference. The meetings will encompass joint and discipline-specific ses- sions for environmental health specialists, epidemiologists, labora- tory scientists, health communicators, and other federal, state, and local public health ocials involved with foodborne and enteric disease outbreak response. Attendees will have the opportunity to network and share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned with other public health professionals in their region. The InFORM Regional Meetings support eorts to improve pub- lic health through the prevention and control of disease, disability, and death caused by foodborne, waterborne, and environmentally transmitted infections. The meetings will also facilitate the discus- sion on strategic goals and encourage the exchange of expertise about improving surveillance systems and practices for detecting, investigating, and controlling enteric disease outbreaks. Three InFORM Regional Meetings will be held in January and February 2023: • East Regional Meeting in Greenville, South Carolina, on Janu- ary 24–25 • West Regional Meeting in San Diego, California, on January 31– February 1 • Central Regional Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 14–15 To learn more about the InFORM Regional Meetings and to reg- ister, visit www.neha.org/inform. NEHA Sta Profiles As part of tradition, we feature new sta members in the Journal around the time of their 1-year anniversary. These profiles give you an opportunity to get to know our sta better and to learn more about the great programs and activities going on in your associa- tion. This month we are pleased to introduce you to three NEHA sta members. Contact information for all NEHA sta can be found on pages 38 and 39. Kate Beasley
I joined NEHA in February 2022 as the digital communications strategist within the Marketing and Commu- nications department. I am primarily responsible for managing NEHA’s social media channels and website. My role also includes graphic design, tracking digital analytics, and supporting specific marketing initiatives.
Here are the upcoming Spark! webinars: • January 25: Conversational Leadership • February 22: Thought Leadership • March 29: Caring Leadership
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