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…

World Cancer Day is February 4, 2024. Join the call to action to close the care gap at www.worldcancerday.org.  

Join Immunize South Dakota for the next Online & in-the-know session. The presenter will share the Autism Society’s practical tips to improve vaccine confidence by employing strategies to reduce stress when vaccinating neurodiverse patients. From this training, participants will gain a better understanding of autism and barriers to care. February…

Join Katie Garfield, HD; Mandi Pratt-Chapman, PHD, MA; and Elizabeth A. Rohan, PHD, MSW to better understand the CMS ruling on Principal Illness Navigation, Community Health Integration, and Social Determinants of Health Risk Assessment codes. This webinar will help explain the CY2024 CMS physician fee schedule (aka “CMS rule”) as…