Preventive Services Task Force Community Guide
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. And today's show, we are going to be talking with some wonderful, wonderful guests today. And it's about the Community Preventative Services Guide and the task force that put that whole thing together. It's going to be quite interesting. So stay tuned. I will get to everybody in just a second. Welcome back to our listening audience. We've had Health Chatters had a little bit of a break over the weekend. Thanksgiving holiday, but we have lots of shows coming up. We have shows booked through the end of March. So stay tuned for that. We have a great crew that makes our Health Chatter podcast successful. Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell, Sheridan Nygaard, and of course, Barry Baines is our medical advisor. All these people do background research for us. They do the production. They do the marketing. and transcribing. They take care of our website. And Clarence and I, what do we do? We just chat and about health. And it's been a really pleasure.
We'll soon be closing in on the start of our third year with Health Chatter. So thank you all to you, the listening audience. So today's show again is on Community Preventative Services Guide. We've got great people with us. Tom Cockey is really a special colleague. I was talking to Tom right before the show. We figured out we probably have known each other for around 40 years. He's a great colleague. He is one of a few in the arena. that really bridges the gap between public health and medicine and the medical side of things and has done it on a variety of different topics and community initiatives over the years. I can't begin to describe the great work that he has done and the insights that he has provided in both of those arenas and is still committed to it this day. He's going to be retiring tomorrow. But if I know Tom, he's going to be linked with this subject for quite a while. So thank you, Tom. You're a special person, special colleague. And I'll let you introduce your colleagues. from out east.
Thank you. First, Dr. Amy Lansky. Amy serves as the director of the Community Guide Program. On your browser, that's thecommunityguide.org. You can sign on and follow as you follow the podcast. The program is at the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the Office of Science, Amy's responsibilities include supporting the Community Preventive Services Task Force. And Dr. Alison Quayar, Alison Evans Quayar is a professor and associate dean of research in the College of Public Health at George Mason University. She's a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She currently chairs the Community Preventive Services Task Force. Back to you, Stan.
Thanks. By the way, I forgot to mention to our listening audience, we have a great sponsor for our shows, Human Partnership, and they're a great community health organization. And without them, we couldn't be able to do these shows. So thank you to Human Partnership. You can check them out at humanpartnership.org and check us out at healthchatterpodcast.com. All right. So let's get the show going here. Community Preventative Services Network. task force and the guide. So let's first start with what is this? What is this guide? And first of all, is this the first iteration? I can answer that question. But for our listening audience, is this the first iteration? What makes it useful? Who uses it? These types of questions. Let's start with that.
So maybe Amy, do you want to take that? Start with that?
Sure, I can start off and then I'm sure Allison and Tom can chime in. So the Community Preventive Services Task Force was started in 1996. It was stood up by the Department of Health and Human Services. And the charge to the task force was to review population health interventions and identify what works for public health. And this was set up and the oversight for the task force, the support was charged to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And so CDC has been supporting the task force continuously since that time task force members come on and off the task force. And the community guide is currently the website.
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