Community Focus on American Heart Month
The Public Health Roundtable
Every month, a diverse panel of innovative public health thought leaders come together to discuss public health topics during a livestream here on LinkedIn. After the live event, we summarize and share our takeaways as an article in this newsletter. Read further to learn how our panelists bring awareness to American Heart Month.
Community Focus on American Heart Month
The month of February is American Heart Health Awareness Month in the U.S. This provides us with another opportunity to address the ongoing need to explain public health to the general public. Through this discussion, we are able to bring awareness to the topic of Heart Health. Join our Public Health Roundtable as Charlotte Hughes Huntley, PhD, MPH, Ericka Horne, MPH, CHES®, and address “Community Focus on American Heart Month” in this discussion.
Conversation Highlights
[00:10] Welcome to the discussion
[01:14] Introduction of Dr. Huntley
[02:21] Introduction of Ericka Horne
[03:30] Introduction of topic–American Heart Month
[03:40] Conversation overview
[04:04] Dr. Huntley addresses her experience in communicating heart health
[07:40] Ericka Horne addresses her experience in communicating heart health
[10:42] Dr. Huntley on reducing your risk of heart disease
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[17:40] Ericka Horne on prioritizing your personal health first
[21:30] Dr. Huntley on being relatable to the communities we serve
[29:30] Conversation wrap-up
Notable Quotes
“I think sometimes, as public health professionals, we are looking at everybody else, and we are not often putting the mirror up and looking at ourselves " -Dr. Huntley [10:35]
"I cannot be who I need to be for you [the community], if I am not first taking care of me" -Ericka Horne [19:10]
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