Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that involves making decisions about your future health care. It typically involves discussions between individuals, their families, and their healthcare providers to understand and document a person’s values, preferences and goals for medical treatment, especially in situations where the individual may not be…

The SD Cancer Coalition Palliative Care Task Force meeting scheduled for Dec. 11 will now be held on a date TBD in the first week of January. This calendar event will be updated with the new date and time soon. To join this or another Coalition task force, please visit…

Coalition partner event presented by Avera An opportunity for those with stage IV breast cancer to find support. The Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer support group meets online via Webex on the second Tuesday of each month at noon Central. You can register online or contact Emily Meyer, MSW, at…

The SD Cancer Coalition Early Detection Health Equity Task Force will meet at 3:30 pm CT Dec. 12 via Teams. To join this or another Coalition task force, please visit https://www.cancersd.com/membership/task-forces/ or contact SD Cancer Coalition Coordinator Megan Myers.

South Dakota health care providers are encouraged to participate in a free informational webinar on South Dakota's All Women Count! at noon Central Dec. 13. Please share a flyer about the event with clinic staff and partners who may have interest in joining. Registration is required; click here to register.

Great Plains Good Health & Wellness Community Health Webinar Presented by: Candace Briscoe, Fit and Fire Studios Candace Briscoe graduated from Northern State University with a degree in Biology with a Chemistry and Computer Science Minor. With plans to be a Biotech, she soon after discovered something missing in the…

New Lead Time Messaging Guidebook: A Tool to Encourage On-Time Colorectal Cancer Screening In December 2023, the American Cancer Society National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCRT) released the latest resource: Lead Time Messaging Guidebook: A Tool to Encourage On-Time Colorectal Cancer Screening. Link: https://nccrt.org/resource/2023-lead-time-messaging-guidebook/  This guidebook is intended to provide information…

Join the American Indian Cancer Foundation for a discussion with Dr. Stephanie Melkonian and Melissa Jim, Epidemiologists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for an overview of cervical cancer data in AI/AN communities and learn how to explore this data through CDC tools and resources. Noon CT…

Join the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) for a discussion on the burden of human papillomavirus (HPV) and current HPV vaccination recommendations in the US. NFID Medical Director Robert (Bob) H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, will moderate the webinar with presentations by Cassandra (Sandy) Pingali, MS, MPH, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control…

The National Academies Standing Committee on Evidence Synthesis and Communications in Diet and Chronic Disease Relationships will host a virtual public workshop to explore the upstream changes in agriculture and food production with the potential to help the public better meet nutrition requirements and dietary guidelines. Jan. 30, 2024 |…

Virtual Workshop: The Use of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to  assess the use of the social constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research. The study will evaluate how racialized group and ethnic categories…