The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
By Dylan Williams, Intern, and Chelsea Gridley-Smith, Senior Program Analyst, NACCHO Climate change is a problem of national magnitude...
Jul 26, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Yesterday, amfAR and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law hosted a briefing at Georgetown Law in connection with...
Jul 17, 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
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) are on the front lines of defense against a myriad of threats to their communities. One of the most...
Jun 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The summer months present a unique set of environmental health challenges for practitioners to consider. Climbing temperatures awaken...
May 24, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University has released Full of Life: The Stories of People...
May 21, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
For the last 5,000 years, people around the world have been sipping their drinks out of straws. Only recently have straws come under...
Apr 19, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Washington Post has reported that a super-resistant strain of gonorrhea has been confirmed in the United Kingdom following...
Mar 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By Dylan Williams, Intern, and Chelsea Gridley-Smith, Senior Program Analyst, NACCHO Climate change is a problem of national magnitude that affects the health of all Americans. Climate change deteriorates the health of the public by exacerbating extreme weather events and altering natural ecosystems, which affects food sources and the migration of vector-borne diseases. The implications […]
Yesterday, amfAR and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law hosted a briefing at Georgetown Law in connection with the release of four new amfAR reports, “Long-Acting HIV Treatment and Prevention Are Coming: Preparing for Potential Game Changers.” The reports highlight the education and policy dialogues needed to prepare for innovative long-acting products […]
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.
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) are on the front lines of defense against a myriad of threats to their communities. One of the most pervasive and all-encompassing threats LHDs currently face is climate change. Climate change jeopardizes public health in many ways: Extreme heat (i.e., more frequent, more intense, and longer lasting heat) heightens the risk […]
The summer months present a unique set of environmental health challenges for practitioners to consider. Climbing temperatures awaken a host of public health vectors (animals and insects that can transmit diseases to humans). Public pools reopen, with children flocking to splash around in—and, most likely, swallow—water that local health departments must ensure is adequately chlorinated. […]
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University has released Full of Life: The Stories of People Affected by Hepatitis C. This new report from the Institute’s Hepatitis Policy Project tells the compelling stories of several men and women who are facing hepatitis C and reveals the need to do more to eliminate its […]
For the last 5,000 years, people around the world have been sipping their drinks out of straws. Only recently have straws come under serious debate. The gold and lapis straws of the ancient Sumerians evolved over the millennia into the plastic straws ubiquitous in restaurants, coffee shops, and bars today. According to one group’s estimate, […]
The Washington Post has reported that a super-resistant strain of gonorrhea has been confirmed in the United Kingdom following warnings from global public health officials that the common sexually transmitted disease is becoming more difficult to treat. Read more…
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