The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which...
Nov 26, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
This week ADM Brett Giroir, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced the...
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Nov 20, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
HIV continues to be a major public health crisis in the U.S. with almost 40,000 new cases each year, compounded by the syndemics of...
Nov 19, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Community-based organizations are invited to submit applications to receive capacity building assistance through Advocates for Youth’s...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the 2017 HIV Surveillance Report, which presents data on numbers and...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $1.5 million for Environmental Justice Small Grants...
Nov 19, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical...
Nov 14, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO is seeking a Technical Consultant to work with its STD program to develop an implementation support package for the Centers for...
Nov 12, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which provides the most recent surveillance data on health behaviors and experiences among high school students across the country. The report data covers a range of topics, including sexual behavior, high-risk substance use, violence victimization, and mental health and...
This week ADM Brett Giroir, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced the process the Department will use to develop the next editions of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and the National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan (NVHAP), both of which expire in 2020. For nearly a decade, […]
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. Since August, NACCHO has been showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail food protection through the Retail Program […]
HIV continues to be a major public health crisis in the U.S. with almost 40,000 new cases each year, compounded by the syndemics of opioid use, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis (TB). As such, the Act Now End AIDS coalition (a national cohort of HIV service organizations, providers, and people living with […]
Community-based organizations are invited to submit applications to receive capacity building assistance through Advocates for Youth’s Queer & Gender Equity Project (QGEP). More than 10 years ago, Advocates launched the QGEP, previously known as the Anti-Homophobia and Transphobia Project, and seeks to build the capacity of organizations interested in and committed to improving the sexual...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the 2017 HIV Surveillance Report, which presents data on numbers and rates of diagnoses of HIV infection that occurred through December 31, 2017. All data were reported to CDC through June 2018. This year’s report has been expanded to include four additional tables that provide six years […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $1.5 million for Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG). These funds will be distributed to approximately 50 community-based organizations nationwide that will work to address environmental justice issues in local communities. Each recipient will receive up to $30,000 for one-year, community-driven projects that...
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series covering the Capabilities for Public Health Agency Involvement in Land Use and Transportation Decision Making to Increase Active Transportation Opportunity from the UMass Worcester Prevention Research...
NACCHO is seeking a Technical Consultant to work with its STD program to develop an implementation support package for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) forthcoming Recommendations for Providing Quality STD Clinical Services. The Recommendations will outline which STD-related clinical services should optimally be available in basic and specialized STD care settings. The...
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