public health

Judge Ben: Conversations Around Cannabis - The Majority Report 12/05/2019

Judge Ben Joseph hosts a discussion with Edwin Baker, LICSW of Morrisville VT and an addiction and substance abuse counselor; Dr. Catherine Antley, member of the Vermont Medical Society of Burlington; and Pharmacologist Judith Margulies from Massachusetts.

UVM Community Medical School: Politics, Money, & Science: Current Debates in Public Health & Health Policy 11/07/2017

Could sitting too much really kill us? Are e-cigarettes just as bad as tobacco or an aid to quit smoking? Public health issues are controversial. Join Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Dean for Public Health at UVM and a former Vermont Commissioner of Health, for a discussion of current debates in public health and to explore how controversy can be both a helpful tool to raise public awareness and a hindrance for progress in health policy. Learn how and why politics, money, and scientific debate fuel these spirited disputes.

Governor Peter Shumlin: Governor Shumlin's Press Conference - Drug Take-Back Day 09/03/2015

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin holds his weekly press conference with announcement of the Rx Drug Take Back Day, set for September 26th. Collection sites in Vermont can be found by going to www.dea.gov or calling 1-800-882-9539. There are currently hundreds of take-back sites on the DEA website in Vermont and surrounding areas in New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts, and more sites will be added before September 26th. . http://governor.vermont.gov/

Selamta Comfort Doll Project 01/08/2009

AmeriCorps members at CVAA recruit seniors from the Burlington area to create "comfort" dolls for children in Selamta, Ethiopia.

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!