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What We Learned After Analyzing 5 Months of Active Mobility Responses to COVID-19

The City Fix

In 2020 and into 2021, transportation agencies, companies and advocacy groups acted swiftly in the face of the unique public health crisis and disruption caused by COVID-19. They provided solutions that kept frontline workers, groceries, health services and other critical. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Migrating and modernizing state WIC applications with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Public health agencies know that modernizing their technology infrastructure is necessary to avoid disruptions to program operations and create new opportunities to serve their constituents. As the first state to migrate their WIC program to the cloud, AZDHS has paved the way for cloud modernization for other public health agencies.

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To Prevent Illegal Dumping, You Have to Know the Scale of the Problem

Center for Community Progress

Beyond aesthetics, these programs improve public health and safety. A 2021 pilot study focused on a handful of chronic dumping sites where researchers tested low-cost interventions like boulder barriers, artwork, seating, lighting, and trail cameras.

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AWS announces the 10 startups selected for the 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator focused on health equity

AWS Public Sector Blog

Chan School of Public Health , Mass General Brigham , Philips , Rock Health , and ScaleHealth. based Healthcare Accelerator , which concluded in October 2021. Startups will also have the benefit of collaboration with many AWS healthcare customers and partners such as Andreessen Horowitz , Harvard T.

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Disruption and Refocusing: COVID Response and the Climate Crisis at Transforming Transportation 2021

The City Fix

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Governments Find Strength in Numbers

GovLoop

Increasingly, government leaders recognize the need to approach cybersecurity in the same way they approach public health: There must be a holistic network in which the well-being of individuals, or individual systems, depends on and benefits the well-being of others.

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National Health Security Preparedness Index

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we learn about the National Health Security Preparedness Index This index gets an annual update and looks at the public health readiness of all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Additionally, we look at the pandemic and what it showed about public health readiness and plans to improve the functioning of the index.