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ACHI in the News (Picture Archive)
Joy Rockenbach (standing), a Project Director at
ACHI, facilitated a
one-dayObesity Leadership
Summit held at the Arkansas Education
Television
Network in Conway, Arkansas. The meeting was
structured
to give voice to concerns about
obesity issues in Arkansas. The summit
was
funded in part by a grant from the National
Center on Outreach.
At ACHI, Rockenbach is
responsible for planning and directing the
component of Act 1220 of 2003, which mandated a
Body Mass Index
assessment of every public
school student in the state. The project
is
currently in its third year.
ACHI's Race for the Cure Team: (from left to right) Row One: Rhonda,
Dilan,
Lorrie, Christina; Row Two: Michelle, Marilyn, Kimara, Shirley;
Row Three:
Jennifer, Suzanne, Debbie V., Debbie B.
Not Pictured: Amy and Kevin
Shirley Tyson, ACHI Policy Specialist, and Dr.
Charles Beets, Work Unit
Leader for Communicable Disease/Immunization at the
Arkansas
Department of Health (ADH), presented at the
Arkansas Legislature’s
Joint Interim Committees on Public Health, Welfare &
Labor on June 22.
They discussed a report detailing the state’s
immunization exemptions
among school children.
At a May 31 press conference, Governor Mike Huckabee
named
Dr.Joe Thompson of Little Rock as the state's chief
health officer
ACHI’s Kevin Ryan Receives 2005 Outstanding
Faculty Award from
COPH Student
Council
ACHI
Associate Director Kevin Ryan participated in a
press conference
on May 2 to kick off Cover the Uninsured Week in
Arkansas. The event
was organized by Arkansas Advocates for Children and
Families to
highlight the fact that more than 450,000 children
and adults in Arkansas
without health insurance. “Those who have chronic
conditions are often
the most vulnerable in our society,” Ryan said. “We
owe it to the millions
of uninsured Americans and Arkansas residents to do
everything we can
to see that they get the health care they need.”
Also speaking at the
press conference were state lawmakers,
representatives of the the
medical community, and health officials.
ACHI’s Suzanne McCarthy (left) and Joy Rockenbach
(right) discuss Act
1220 with an administrator at the Arkansas School
Boards Conference.
The two manned an exhibit to promote the
understanding of Act 1220
and Rockenbach made three presentations at the
conference.
The conference was held
on December 1 at the Statehouse
Convention Center in Little Rock
Dr. Joe Thompson, Director of ACHI, and Kevin Ryan,
ACHI’s Associate
Director for Policies and Projects, present policy
recommendations at a
recent meeting of the Joint Interim Committee on
Health Insurance and
Prescription Drugs
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