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On today’s PHRME, JoAnne Deehr highlights the ASTHO Policy Institute for STI and Infectious Disease Prevention, designed to help state and territorial health staff build policy skills and turn data and program challenges into policy solutions.
🎧: discover.astho.org/3NrwqoX.
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On PHRME: ASTHO VP Christi Mackie continues the review of the 2026 Legislative Prospectus Series, highlighting healthy food and chronic disease policy, and focusing on diabetes prevention, management, and access to nutritious foods.
🎧: discover.astho.org/4qn8YHt.
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On today’s PHRME, ASTHO president @DrJuthani of @CTDPH and Brian Lentes discuss policy trends shaping public health funding and administration — a focus area of the 2026 Legislative Prospectus Series.
🎧: discover.astho.org/4qOzHfR.
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“You’ve been trained to be healers, scientists, and advocates who see the whole person, the whole community…Remember that behind every data point is a human being with a story.”
Manisha Juthani, MD
Commissioner of @CTDPH ,
2025 Commencement Speaker & Honorary Degree Recipient
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We are excited to announce that the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health (@CTDPH), Dr. Manisha Juthani, will deliver the keynote address at UConn Health's 54th Commencement in May.
today.uconn.edu/2025/04/conn…
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A blessed Ramadan to all who celebrate. May you find peace and happiness during this month of fasting. #RamadanMubarak
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On today's Public Health Review Morning Edition, @CTDPH's Tom St. Louis shares a new initiative to support the public health workforce and @ASTHO's Amy Ciarlo provides updates on the multi-state JUUL settlement.
Listen now: bit.ly/3MotF3Y
#PHRME #PublicHealth
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NORA is the Naloxone + Overdose response app created by CTDPH to provide information on opioids and how to recognize the symptoms of a suspected opioid overdose. Visit the NORA at egov.ct.gov/norasaves and save to your phone’s home screen for easy access.
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🔴Air quality to remain at unhealthy levels through Thursday morning due to Canadian Wildfire smoke.
➕ Follow CT DEEP for air alerts and other important breaking news.
📆💡 Check Air Quality forecasts at AirNow: airnow.gov
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They may hear it through media or when activities are being canceled. You can do things to stay safer, such as staying indoors and enjoying time together. We are here for each other. ❤
For activities and games to do indoors, check out sesameworkshop.org/resources. (2/2)
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Many of our friends are being affected by the smoke and air quality issues caused by wildfires in Canada. This can be scary for children, and they may have questions or big feelings about what is happening. (1/2)
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Great to join @Surgeon_General in New Haven to discuss the value of mental health care in our state and nation, and to share with college students from four area schools how we’re improving mental health access. No one should ever have to struggle in silence.
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On today’s episode of #PHRME, ASTHO member @DrJuthani, commissioner of @CTDPH joins us to discuss her state’s #COVID19 guidance for the 2022-2023 school year.
Listen: bit.ly/3SDFmoL #BacktoSchool
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I thank and commend @ChrisMurphyCT, @SenBlumenthal, and our entire Congressional delegation for continuing to move the conversation forward that led to the bipartisan agreement on gun safety in the U.S. Senate that was announced this afternoon.
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Commissioner of @CTDPH, @DrJuthani joins this morning’s conversation to discuss the slow uptake of prescriptions for #COVID19 therapeutics and how to overcome hesitancy.
Listen here: bit.ly/3LXKuAp
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FDA Investigation of Cronobacter and Salmonella Complaints: Powdered Infant Formula (February 2022)
Do not use certain powdered infant formulas produced at Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, MI facility
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To keep people safe from Covid and slow #Omicron, we’re meeting folks wherever they are, like local businesses, and providing self-tests & quality masks. I saw the effectiveness of this outreach today by joining @CTDPH in #NewBritain at Borinquen Bakery & Criollisimo Restaurant.
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The collaborative effort I've seen over the past two weeks to get self-tests and quality masks to the people who need them most has been INCREDIBLE.
Thank you to all of our partners — from state agencies down to local leaders — working 24/7 to keep folks safe. #InThisTogether
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Of the nearly 2M self-tests the state has distributed over the the last week, the most common is by iHealth.
When used properly, it yields highly accurate results — 94.3% according to the FDA — in just 15 minutes.
Watch how to use it below or at ct.gov/selftest.