Building Healthy Online Communities Public Health Meeting Report

In December of last year, NCSD’s Building Healthy Online Communities Project held a meeting of STD/HIV program directors, HIV...

May 24, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Provide Feedback on Zika Action Plan Summit Teleconferences

    Fill out this brief survey on the CDC’s ZAP Summit Teleconferences to help us understand how these teleconferences benefit your...

    May 17, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • May is Hepatitis Awareness Month

    May is Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States and is an opportunity to raise awareness about the silent epidemics of hepatitis...

    May 11, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • New CDC Study Shows Hepatitis C Kills More Americans than Any Other Infectious...

    A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published online today in Clinical Infectious Diseases shows that in 2013,...

    May 04, 2016 | Christina Baum

  • ATSDR Funding Announcement: Community Health Projects on Contamination

    The CDC Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is announcing a new funding opportunity for community health projects...

    May 04, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman

  • CDC Study: How Often Retail Delis Clean Deli Slicers

    What percentage of delis clean their slicers as often as FDA recommends to prevent germs from spreading? Find out in this new study,...

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • Foodborne Illness Trends

    The CDC’s Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network, FoodNet, has released their most recent report. This report provides a...

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • CDC Finds that Diagnostic Tests Challenge Foodborne Illness Tracking

    In the April 15, 2016 issue of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the report states that diagnostic tests used to...

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • Building Healthy Online Communities Public Health Meeting Report

    In December of last year, NCSD’s Building Healthy Online Communities Project held a meeting of STD/HIV program directors, HIV community-based organizations, and CDC representatives to discuss how best to coordinate public health efforts to reduce HIV and STD transmission among gay and bisexual men who meet partners on dating and hook-up sites and mobile apps. […]

    May 24, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

    Provide Feedback on Zika Action Plan Summit Teleconferences

    Fill out this brief survey on the CDC’s ZAP Summit Teleconferences to help us understand how these teleconferences benefit your local health department. Feel free to provide additional feedback in the comments below, as well. *Note: You will use the same survey link to provide feedback on all of the teleconferences. 

    May 17, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    May is Hepatitis Awareness Month

    May is Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States and is an opportunity to raise awareness about the silent epidemics of hepatitis B and C and highlight the importance of testing. CDC has created a number of resources such as digital tools, a hepatitis risk assessment, live-read PSA scripts, and fact sheets for organizations interested […]

    May 11, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

    New CDC Study Shows Hepatitis C Kills More Americans than Any Other Infectious Disease

    A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published online today in Clinical Infectious Diseases shows that in 2013, hepatitis C related deaths outnumbered deaths from 60 other infectious diseases combined, including HIV, pneumococcal disease, and tuberculosis. The CDC also released preliminary surveillance data revealing that deaths associated with hepatitis C reached an all-time high...

    May 04, 2016 | Christina Baum

    ATSDR Funding Announcement: Community Health Projects on Contamination

    The CDC Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is announcing a new funding opportunity for community health projects related to contamination at Brownfield/Land Reuse Sites. In alignment with ATSDR’s mission to promote healthy and safe environments, this opportunity will further the work of projects seeking to restore contaminated properties as an integral part of the...

    May 04, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman

    CDC Study: How Often Retail Delis Clean Deli Slicers

    What percentage of delis clean their slicers as often as FDA recommends to prevent germs from spreading? Find out in this new study, published in CDC’s  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.   

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

    Foodborne Illness Trends

    The CDC’s Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network, FoodNet, has released their most recent report. This report provides a preliminary 2015 data on the nine most common germs spread through food. Overall, the progress in reducing rates of foodborne illnesses has been limited since 2012 and the most frequent causes of infection in 2015 were Salmonella and Campylobacter. […]

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

    CDC Finds that Diagnostic Tests Challenge Foodborne Illness Tracking

    In the April 15, 2016 issue of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the report states that diagnostic tests used to identify foodborne illnesses faster could soon pose challenges to finding outbreaks and monitoring progress toward preventing foodborne disease. Culture-independent diagnostic tests (CIDTs) help doctors diagnose infections quicker than traditional culture methods,...

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

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