USC PRC Highlighted on CDC PRC Website. The USC PRC has been working with Sumter County Active Lifestyles to provide mini-grants to increase physical activity resources in underserved areas of Sumter County. This project is the subject of a feature story on the CDC PRC website. Click here to read more.

USDHHS Physical Activity Guidelines Report. On June 20, 2008, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the report of the Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee. The report summarizes the Committee’s review of science relating PA to a variety of health outcomes, and addresses the benefits of PA for particular subgroups of the population: children and youth, pregnant and postpartum women, persons with disabilities, individuals with some chronic conditions, and older adults. It provides the scientific basis for the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans currently being developed by US DHHS for a fall 2008 launch. You are invited to provide comments on the report. Although the report will not be amended in response to comments, all comments will be considered in preparing the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. To read the report and make comments, go to http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/.

Prevention Institute Report: The Prevention Institute released a report in May 2007 entitled: Healthy Eating & Physical Activity: Addressing Inequities in Urban Environment.  This document provides guidance for improving nutrition and physical activity elements of environments, particularly in socially and economically disadvantaged urban communities.  The document can be found at http://www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/pdf/RWJNC.pdf.

APHA PA Special Interest Group (SPIG). We are working to provide a visible and credible “home” for those with a primary interest in PA science, practice, and policy. To be formally recognized by APHA, we must recruit at least 100 new members who will select the PA SPIG as their primary affiliation. We invite you to join us in our efforts to elevate PA as a priority within APHA, and to provide PA professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to address sedentary behavior and its detrimental consequences. We also call on persons from diverse disciplines (e.g., physical education/kinesiology, transportation, land use planning, commercial fitness industry, medicine, nursing, clinical exercise physiology, and athletic training) to take this opportunity to align their interests and efforts with those from the public health arena. If you are willing to commit to becoming either a professional or student member of APHA and the PA SPIG, click on the followiong link to access the membership commitment form: http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/SPIGform.pdf. Simply download the form, sign and date it, and fax it to Dr. Justin Moore at (252) 744-4008.

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