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A Win for Nursing Moms

The award-winning Public Health Live (T2B2) webcast series is presented at 9 a.m. on the third Thursday of the month.

ALBANY, N.Y. (September 15, 2016) – A School of Public Health center was recently named a Bronze winner in the 37th Annual Telly Awards.

The Center for Public Health Continuing Education (CPHCE) won the award for the video St. Peter’s: Mercy Cares for Kids, of the August 2015 Public Health Live! program – Breastfeeding and the Workplace: Success Takes a Team.

The Telly Awards honors the best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs.

The winning video segment highlights how St. Peter’s Hospital’s day care center in Albany, Mercy Cares for Kids, adapted its facility and care routines to support nursing moms who continued to breastfeed their babies after returning to work.

“We are thrilled and proud to be recognized by the Telly Awards for our work,” said Dawn Bleyenburg, Director of CPHCE. “Public Health Live reaches so many public health professionals and clinicians in New York state, the nation and the world with our cutting-edge public health programming. This award validates the high quality work our staff produces to support the public health workforce.”

The Telly Awards honor the finest film and video production, ground-breaking web commercials, videos and films and outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs. More information is available.

The Center for Public Health Continuing Education (CPHCE) is nationally known for its distance learning training, including the award-winning Public Health Live (T2B2) webcast series presented live at 9 a.m. on the third Thursday of the month, as well as on-demand and numerous interactive, self-paced online courses.

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