Public Health Week starts Monday with community breakfast

College of Public Health faculty, staff and students will join members of the Omaha community at a Monday breakfast to discuss ways to reduce violence and increase safety in the city’s neighborhoods.












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This year is the first year the UNMC College of Public Health has coordinated campus/community events during National Public Health Week in an effort to raise awareness about issues that can improve the health of our community.

More about National Public Health Week, including a schedule of UNMC-sponsored events will be published Friday in UNMC Today.




The event will kick off UNMC’s observance of National Public Health Week.

The breakfast — which is sponsored by the College of Public Health Student Association — starts at 9 a.m. at Big Mama’s Kitchen (3223 N. 45th St.).

Panelists at the breakfast discussion will be:

  • Omaha City Councilman Ben Gray;
  • Jannette Taylor of Impact One Community Connection;
  • Lina Lander, Sc.D., associate professor in the College of Public Health epidemiology department;
  • Chevist Johnson of the Omaha Police Department; and
  • Pastor John Voner of Enough is Enough.

Wayne Houston, community outreach specialist in the College of Public Health’s Center for Reducing Health Disparities, will moderate the event and the college’s dean, Ayman El-Mohandes, M.B.B.Ch., M.D., M.P.H., will deliver closing remarks.

Those who want to attend Monday’s breakfast should RSVP to Leah Frerichs at leah.frerichs@unmc.edu.

National Public Health Week runs April 4-11. This year’s theme is “Safety is no accident: Live injury free.”