When it comes to Public Health AND Maps, July is one of the busiest and exciting times of the year full of nonstop conferences from the beginning to the end of the month. With all of the virtual options this year, our team was able to attend many of these events throughout the month and are looking forward to sharing what we learned.
Be on the lookout for some upcoming posts on our experiences at the virtual offerings below!
COVID-19 STATUS
As of July 31st, there are more than 17 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide.
The United States now has the distinction of having the most deaths due to the virus with more than 150,000 lives lost.
JOHNS HOPKINS CSSE CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD
WORLDWIDE
Confirmed Cases: 17,303,253
Deaths: 673,284
Recovered: 10,137,875
UNITED STATES
Confirmed Cases: 4,495,015
Deaths: 152,070
Recovered: 1,414,155
JULY 2020 MAPS OF THE WEEK
MAPS OF THE WEEK: 8
July’s eight Maps Of The Week covered climate change and health, the increasing rate of HIV diagnoses in the United States, future projections of extreme heat, global youth employment projects, as well as the birth locations of American athletes in the US.
Other maps included how each US state approaches contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the directory of local health departments in the US in honor of the NACCHO 360 virtual conference, and the global map of the attendees for the 2020 Esri User Conference!
Click on each map below for more information and check out our Map Of The Week page for more!
1 JULY 2020: HOW OUR HEALTH IS HARMED BY CLIMATE CHANGE - IMPACTS DIFFER BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION, UNITED STATES
6 JULY 2020: RATE OF HIV DIAGNOSES, BY STATE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2018
SOURCE: UNAIDS
7 JULY 2020: DIRECTORY OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, UNITED STATES, 2020
SOURCE: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY AND CITY HEALTH OFFICIALS (NACCHO)
10 JULY 2020: FUTURE PROJECTIONS OF EXTREME HEAT, UNITED STATES, 2050
15 JULY 2020: YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS MAP, GLOBAL
15 JULY 2020: 2020 ESRI USER CONFERENCE ATTENDEES, GLOBAL
SOURCE: KENNETH FIELD / ESRI
29 JULY 2020: STATE APPROACHES TO CONTACT TRACING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
JULY 2020 Tweetchats
Tweetchats: 7 (whew…)
It was a busier month than usual for Tweet chats with our team participating in seven tweetchats from four organizations. Below is a quick summary of the online discussions and make sure to click on the pictures below for more information.
As always, a big thank you to our friends at SaludAmerica! for always inviting us to participate and for convening discussions that are relevant not only for Latino health, but everyone! They had held four great chats covering how COVID-19 communication & myths as well as how coronavirus affects young Latinos and why transit needs to be included in COVID-19 recovery plans. To round out the month, their final tweet chat focused on Healthy Vision Month.
As part of the US Center’s for Disease Control and Prevention’s Tracking Awareness Week (July 6 - 10), #TrackingChat covered the many benefits of the CDC’s National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network.
The National Hispanic Medical Association held the first in its COVID-10 Twitter Chat Series covering Elderly Mental Health & Social Isolation.
JULY 2020 EVENTS
July 2020: Bring On The (Virtual) Conferences! highlighted selected conferences, monthly, weekly, and daily events and health observances throughout the month. We shine the spotlight on selected July events that provided many lessons learned that are worth keeping a tab on throughout the entire year.
Make sure to click on the images below for more information!
MONTHLY
Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
During National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in July, the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) will continue to highlight its free and accredited e-learning program: Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals. This program is part of OMH’s Think Cultural Health E-learning courses, which are developed to help health professionals develop the knowledge and skills to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate services. OMH operates the Think Cultural Health website and provides free e-learning courses in support of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (National CLAS Standards).
During July, OMH will also highlight resources to support people’s mental and emotional wellbeing while following the social distancing guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop the spread of COVID-19. OMH encourages all our partners to join us in educating communities about the importance of mental healthcare and treatment and to help break down barriers, such as negative perceptions about mental illness.
Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month
July is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month, a month dedicated to increase awareness over early signs and symptoms of juvenile arthritis and to ease the focus of resources for this battle. The campaign was initiated by the Arthritis Foundation and targets a condition that currently affects 300,000 children nationwide, making it one of the most common childhood diseases in the US.
WEEKLY
London Climate Action Week
LCAW Digital (1-3 July) brought together world-leading experts and policy makers to drive the national and international Covid-19 climate policy response, prioritising green recovery. Events focused on three key areas:
Green investment to rebuild economies;
International collaboration to address the climate crisis;
Solutions for adaptation and resilience.
Tracking Awareness Week
CDC’s National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program is hosting the fifth annual Tracking Awareness Week from July 6-10, 2020. CDC, state and local health departments, partners, researchers, and people interested in environmental health are coming together to highlight important nationwide environmental health issues as well as recognize the work of the Tracking Program.
DAILY
Global Environmental Health Day 2020
The theme of NIEHS’ fourth annual Global Environmental Health Day was "Science at the Cutting Edge of Global Environmental Change and Health."
GEH Day serves as an opportunity to bring together a global community of colleagues to explore areas of interest and discuss new ideas, to form collaborations and share common goals.
WORLD MANGROVE DAY
The International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 2015 and celebrated each year on 26 July, aims to raise awareness of the importance of mangrove ecosystems as “a unique, special and vulnerable ecosystem" and to promote solutions for their sustainable management, conservation and uses.
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
Human trafficking is a crime that exploits women, children and men for numerous purposes including forced labour and sex. Since 2003 the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has collected information on about 225,000 victims of trafficking detected worldwide. Globally countries are detecting and reporting more victims, and are convicting more traffickers. This can be the result of increased capacity to identify victims and/or an increased number of trafficked victims.
WHAT’S IN STORE FOR AUGUST?
Use the button below and take a look at what’s coming up in our August 2020 Calendar. Be on the lookout for our August blog post for further details.
As always, please #WearAMask, #WashYourHands for at least 20 seconds, practice #SocialDistancing, and take some time for yourself. Stay safe!