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NACCHO Environmental Health Program's Year in Review for 2025

Jan 13, 2026 | Anu Varma

NACCHO’s Environmental Health (EH) team develops timely content that informs and empowers local health departments (LHDs) to improve health in communities. Here’s a quick rundown of what the team achieved in 2025!

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Through December 2025, our team:

  • Administered 53 invoices in service of LHDs worth $707K+.
  • Distributed 64 travel scholarships totaling $65,000+ to LHDs across 17 months.
  • Conducted 38 workshops, webinars, sharing sessions, presentations, site visits, and technical assistance programs nationwide.
  • Facilitated 29 workgroup meetings involving 49 members and subject matter experts across four portfolios through July 2025.
  • Secured registrations for 1,323 people for various EH webinars averaging an attendance rate of 65%.
  • Reached 80,107 NACCHO members with timely environmental public health updates through 15 community forums.
  • Disseminated 49 tools, resources, and publications, the most popular of which are featured in our latest blog post here.
  • Exposed 864M+ readers to NACCHO’s press coverage covering important EH issues.
  • Experienced a 42% above-industry-average open rate across EH e-newsletters sent to 21,000 subscribers.
  • Recorded 9,721 audience views of NACCHO’s EH webpages with 13,795 visits of EH blogs including stories from the field.
  • Informed 77,213 followers about relevant EH news and resources on social media, while recording a15% increase in followers from CY2024.

Download, view, and share our infographic by clicking here.


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About Anu Varma

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Anupama Varma is a Communications Specialist for Environmental Health at NACCHO.

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