The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
In honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month, NASTAD released three new success stories featuring health department responses to the...
Jun 04, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO and Hep B United recently hosted a webinar on Hidden Consequences: The Opioid Epidemic and Rising Hepatitis B Rates. View the...
May 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Harm Reduction Journal recently published “Understanding the public health consequences of suspending a rural syringe services...
May 24, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
A new report from the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (ACRE), the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, and the Institute for...
May 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Tina Yuen and Patrick Glass, ChangeLab Solutions Complete streets is the concept of designing streets so that all people—no matter...
Apr 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In response to the 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, NACCHO hosted two Vector Surveillance and Control Workshops in partnership...
Feb 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Climate change jeopardizes public health. From extreme heat to flash flooding to increased spread of vector-borne diseases, the...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Public health practitioners, researchers, and policy experts are invited to submit proposals for the NIHB 2019 National Tribal Public...
Jan 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO is hosting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) webinar series for local health departments. The goal of the webinar series is to...
Jan 09, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month, NASTAD released three new success stories featuring health department responses to the hepatitis A outbreak and highlighting the work that has taken place in Indiana, Michigan, and Utah. The Success Stories highlight the need for multi-stakeholder engagement and working with partners such as syringe service providers, community-based organizations, and...
NACCHO and Hep B United recently hosted a webinar on Hidden Consequences: The Opioid Epidemic and Rising Hepatitis B Rates. View the video recording and see the presentation materials below. Presentation Slides: Alphabet Study: A, B, C, D; Jack Hildick-Smith LENOWISCO Health District Comprehensive Harm Reduction Program; Michelle McPheron Handouts: Community Response Planning for Outbreaks of...
The Harm Reduction Journal recently published “Understanding the public health consequences of suspending a rural syringe services program: a qualitative study of the experiences of people who inject drugs,” which examines the impact of closing a syringe service program (SSP) in Charleston, West Virginia on the health of people who inject drugs (PWID). In late […]
A new report from the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (ACRE), the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University seeks to bring attention to the unique plight of rural U.S. communities struggling to secure basic sanitation and wastewater. The problem of inadequate and unaffordable […]
By Tina Yuen and Patrick Glass, ChangeLab Solutions Complete streets is the concept of designing streets so that all people—no matter if they’re walking, bicycling, using public transportation, driving, or mobility impaired—can safely and easily get where they’re going. Complete streets improve health, safety, and economic opportunities for communities. Neighborhood Differences Picture your...
In response to the 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, NACCHO hosted two Vector Surveillance and Control Workshops in partnership with the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The goal of the workshops was to increase the capacity of low-resource jurisdictions affected by the 2017 hurricanes to […]
Climate change jeopardizes public health. From extreme heat to flash flooding to increased spread of vector-borne diseases, the effects of climate change are some of the most pervasive threats local health departments are facing. To mitigate the health effects of climate change, NACCHO, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offered […]
Public health practitioners, researchers, and policy experts are invited to submit proposals for the NIHB 2019 National Tribal Public Health Summit, taking place May 13-15, 2019 at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, NM. These are the details on the Environmental Health and Climate Change Track: Environmental health focuses on the interrelationships between people and […]
NACCHO is hosting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) webinar series for local health departments. The goal of the webinar series is to provide an open, informal space for dialogue and peer-to-peer sharing about challenges and best practices. The webinars take place on the second Wednesday of the month, and each month has a different […]
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