The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report, Enhanced Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis, 14 States,...
Jul 16, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
AIDS United, with funding from Gilead Sciences, Inc., is pleased to announce the opportunity for grant support through the People...
Jul 11, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
A recent article from Route Fifty reports on a study from The Lancet Planetary Health linking air pollution from cars and trucks to...
Jul 10, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
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
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report titled Monitoring Selected National...
NACCHO is pleased to announce the release of its new video, The Role of Local Health Departments in Combatting Healthcare-Associated...
Jun 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
On June 28, NACCHO hosted a webinar on conducting social network analyses–what they look like and how they can be applied....
Jun 28, 2018 | Christina Baum
Local health departments (LHDs) play a vital role in providing immunization services and counseling, as well as...
Jun 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Massachusetts Health Officers Association (MHOA) recently released Essential Measures: A Local Public Health Toolkit for...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report, Enhanced Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis, 14 States, 2016, in the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases showing that Coccidioidomycosis, commonly known as Valley fever, can cause severe illness in travelers to the southwestern U.S. where it is found. Valley fever causes flu-like symptom such as fever, […]
AIDS United, with funding from Gilead Sciences, Inc., is pleased to announce the opportunity for grant support through the People Organizing Positively initiative (formerly Positive Organizing Project)! People living with HIV have a critical role to play in combating stigma, serving as role models for disclosure and engagement in care, working to decriminalize HIV, and […]
A recent article from Route Fifty reports on a study from The Lancet Planetary Health linking air pollution from cars and trucks to diabetes. According to the study, air pollution was responsible for 14% of diabetes cases globally in 2016. Read the article.
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 […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report titled Monitoring Selected National HIV Prevention and Care Objectives by Using HIV Surveillance Data—United States and 6 Dependent Areas, 2016 is now available online with an accompany slide set. This year, the Monitoring Report includes care-related data from an additional 2 jurisdictions […]
NACCHO is pleased to announce the release of its new video, The Role of Local Health Departments in Combatting Healthcare-Associated Infections. Check out the video below and for more resources, look to NACCHO’s newly updated Healthcare-Associated Infections Toolkit for Local Health Departments or email [email protected] to share how your health department is working to prevent and...
On June 28, NACCHO hosted a webinar on conducting social network analyses–what they look like and how they can be applied. Webinar participants were also led through an explanation and live demonstration of a recently developed toolkit from the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, A Novice’s Guide: Social Network Analysis Using R Statnet, which […]
Local health departments (LHDs) play a vital role in providing immunization services and counseling, as well as in controlling cases of vaccine-preventable diseases. These local agencies work with public and private sector physicians and other stakeholders to ensure effective immunization practices, disease surveillance and reporting, education and outreach, and program...
The Massachusetts Health Officers Association (MHOA) recently released Essential Measures: A Local Public Health Toolkit for Addressing the Opioid Epidemic. The toolkit has been endorsed by the Massachusetts Coalition of Public Health (the five major public health associations of the state) and communities can use it as a framework to plan from, initiate, expand upon, and collaborate on […]
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NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
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The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...
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