The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Following the recent nerve agent poisonings in the United Kingdom, the emergency response community has requested information and...
Aug 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Democracy Collaborative released a new report called Community Control of Land and Housing. Here is a summary of the report from...
Aug 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) recently announced that so far this year, the city has served...
Aug 15, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is officially accepting applications for the 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. An annual...
Aug 09, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
In response to increasing hepatitis C among pregnant women, Kentucky has become the first state in the nation to require that all...
Jul 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
In response to the destruction from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria occurring across Southern states and U.S. territories in 2017,...
Jul 17, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendation for the use of a short course treatment regimen...
Jul 02, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
In partnership with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities...
Jun 13, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
On June 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory for Hepatitis A outbreaks occuring in multiple...
Jun 12, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Following the recent nerve agent poisonings in the United Kingdom, the emergency response community has requested information and advice to enhance preparedness. The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, and Department of Transportation’s National...
The Democracy Collaborative released a new report called Community Control of Land and Housing. Here is a summary of the report from the Democracy Collaborative: A historical legacy of displacement and exclusion, firmly rooted in racism and discriminatory public policy, has fundamentally restricted access to land and housing and shaped ownership dynamics, particularly for people […]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) recently announced that so far this year, the city has served 1,814 people living with HIV in Chicago as the city continues to expand HIV primary care support. Now in the third year of the HIV primary care expansion partnership between CDPH, the University […]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is officially accepting applications for the 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. An annual award, the RWJF Culture of Health Prize honors and elevates communities that are bringing partners together to improve health for all residents. Communities can compete to receive a $25,000 prize and the chance to share […]
In response to increasing hepatitis C among pregnant women, Kentucky has become the first state in the nation to require that all pregnant women be tested for the hepatitis C virus. Read the article to learn more.
In response to the destruction from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria occurring across Southern states and U.S. territories in 2017, AIDS United was moved to act and help address the growing needs of agencies serving the HIV community. AIDS United has made funds available through this request for applications (RFA) to assist in meeting the […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendation for the use of a short course treatment regimen called 3HP to reach even more people with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Treatment of latent TB infection is essential to controlling and eliminating TB in the United States because it substantially reduces the risk […]
In partnership with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) announced the opening of Round 13 of the Partners for Places grant program. Partners for Places is a successful matching grant program that improves U.S. and Canadian communities by building partnerships between local government sustainability leaders and...
On June 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory for Hepatitis A outbreaks occuring in multiple states among persons reporting drug use and/or homelessness and their contacts. The HAN can be accessed on CDC’s website. CDC recommends that health departments review the most recent data to identify communities that are at […]
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