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Breaking the Silence Through Storytelling: Confronting Medical Mistrust to Advance...
Baltimore City’s Health Department is using storytelling to address medical mistrust when it comes to HIV prevention and...
Mar 30, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
CDC: Hunting Down Healthcare-associated Fungal Infections
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program fosters scientific...
Mar 29, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
NASTAD Success Stories: Ready to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s...
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has released a series of success stories highlighting local...
Feb 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
New Interactive Tool: CDC Antibiotic Resistance Investment Map
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released the CDC AR Investment Map, which includes an interactive web app...
Jan 12, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Call for Abstracts: 2017 National Sexual Health Conference
Sexual Health is a critical issue in the United States, cutting across the fields of public health, reproductive health, disease...
Jan 05, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Subscribe Now: Healthcare in Motion Digest
To reflect the rapid-fire nature of health care policy developments in the coming year, the Center for Health Law and Policy...
Jan 05, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Reflections from the National Academies Meeting on Improving Population Health
By Mukti Kulkarni, MD, NACCHO Prevention Health Policy Resident With so many fiscal challenges, how can local health departments...
Nov 28, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Report: Preliminary Findings of “Hepatitis C: The State of Medicaid Access”
The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) and the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI)...
Nov 15, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Call for Submissions: NACCHO Annual 2017 Abstracts
The Conference Planning Workgroup invites the submission of abstracts for the 2017 NACCHO Annual Conference,to be hosted July 11–13 in...
Nov 08, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Breaking the Silence Through Storytelling: Confronting Medical Mistrust to Advance HIV PreventionBaltimore City’s Health Department is using storytelling to address medical mistrust when it comes to HIV prevention and treatment in their community. Last year, they started two programs: Baltimore in Conversation and Project Presence, to bring together members of the community to share their stories of accessing healthcare and HIV treatment. These projects stem from […] Mar 30, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
CDC: Hunting Down Healthcare-associated Fungal InfectionsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program fosters scientific innovation in genomic sequencing, epidemiology, and bioinformatics to transform public health and protect people from disease threats. The AMD program recently released a one-pager centered around how AMD is helping us investigate the emerging multi-drug resistant... Mar 29, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
NASTAD Success Stories: Ready to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s ChallengeThe National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has released a series of success stories highlighting local health department’s HIV and viral hepatitis programs that address individual-, community-, and systems-level needs. These stories recognize the important work of health department HIV and viral hepatitis programs and demonstrate innovation, vision, and commitment to... Feb 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
New Interactive Tool: CDC Antibiotic Resistance Investment MapThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released the CDC AR Investment Map, which includes an interactive web app and printable state- and city-specific fact sheets describing CDC’s work to tackle antibiotic resistance (AR) using fiscal year 2016 funds. The fact sheets can be used to better understand how CDC supports AR activities in […] Jan 12, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Call for Abstracts: 2017 National Sexual Health ConferenceSexual Health is a critical issue in the United States, cutting across the fields of public health, reproductive health, disease prevention, clinical care, policy, advocacy, health equity, and the social determinants of health. The 2017 National Sexual Health Conference will share information, innovations, and advances in sexual health and develop conversations about supporting healthy sexuality... Jan 05, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Subscribe Now: Healthcare in Motion DigestTo reflect the rapid-fire nature of health care policy developments in the coming year, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) is launching Health Care in Motion. This digest will include regular updates, action alerts, policy development analysis, white papers, and advocacy tools addressing the changing health care policy landscape. It is designed to support the […] Jan 05, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Reflections from the National Academies Meeting on Improving Population HealthBy Mukti Kulkarni, MD, NACCHO Prevention Health Policy Resident With so many fiscal challenges, how can local health departments secure sources of perpetual funding for their vital work in advancing population health? On October 19, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement convened a workshop on Building Sustainable Financing... Nov 28, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Report: Preliminary Findings of “Hepatitis C: The State of Medicaid Access”The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) and the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) recently released the preliminary findings of Hepatitis C: The State of Medicaid Access – a comprehensive assessment of state Medicaid programs’ discriminatory restrictions on curative treatments for hepatitis C, the nation’s deadliest blood-borne disease. The full... Nov 15, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Call for Submissions: NACCHO Annual 2017 AbstractsThe Conference Planning Workgroup invites the submission of abstracts for the 2017 NACCHO Annual Conference,to be hosted July 11–13 in Pittsburgh, PA. The theme of this year’s conference is Public Health Revolution: Bridging Clinical Medicine and Population Health. Local public health has a central role in convening discussions and efforts around population health, clinical medicine,... Nov 08, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
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