Experts from the Community Preventive Services Task Force are meeting in Atlanta June 22-23 to examine evidence on which strategies reduce the impact of chronic health issues facing the country today, including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
The Community Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, nonfederal panel of public health and prevention experts that provides evidence-based findings and recommendations about community preventive services, programs and policies to improve health.
The meeting is open to members of the public and the media. Attendees participating via web stream will have the opportunity to ask questions electronically.
"We encourage our partners to engage with CDC staff and the task force during…meetings to ensure that the task force fully understands the needs of their target audiences, and to help the task force promote what works to improve health in communities across the U.S.," said Shawna Mercer, PhD, chief of the Community Guide Branch in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services.
To learn more about the task force meeting and how to attend, click here.
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