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’s (CDC’s) Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) is accepting applications from...
Jan 22, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
As a public health professional, you know what it’s like to face tough questions about the work you do. Perhaps you’ve been asked to...
Dec 10, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have established the Vector Control Collaborative to match local...
Dec 04, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO released the 2018 Forces of Change report highlighting new findings on the forces that are affecting the nation’s local health...
Nov 02, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently collaborated to...
Oct 12, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) released a new toolkit on how to integrate HIV care, treatment, and/or...
Oct 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
In recognition of National Health IT Week (Oct. 8-14), NACCHO penned a blog post to join champions from across the industry in uniting...
By Rachel Lynch, Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Exposure to asbestos particles is the only known cause of mesothelioma cancer, a rare...
Sep 26, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
In July, NACCHO Government Affairs team members Eli Briggs and Ian Goldstein presented a webinar for the Michigan Public Health...
Sep 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) is accepting applications from prospective associates and host sites. PHAP is a two-year, competitive, paid training program for early-career public health professionals. Associates are employed and paid by CDC and work at state, tribal, local, and territorial public health departments;...
As a public health professional, you know what it’s like to face tough questions about the work you do. Perhaps you’ve been asked to defend a policy position. Or to justify funding for a public health program. Or to explain why a certain public health intervention is critical. With public health increasingly working to develop […]
NACCHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have established the Vector Control Collaborative to match local vector control programs that have demonstrated expertise in core capabilities with vector control programs looking for guidance, tools, and recommendations to build program capabilities. NACCHO intends to award up to six entities with a maximum of […]
NACCHO released the 2018 Forces of Change report highlighting new findings on the forces that are affecting the nation’s local health departments (LHDs). Results show that although the economic situation is slowly improving for many LHDs, workforce capacity challenges persist. One-third of LHDs reported experiencing job losses in 2017. LHDs also faced with challenges associated […]
The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently collaborated to conduct an epidemiology capacity assessment in 27 big city health departments. The report addresses the capacity of big city local health departments to monitor health status, investigate problems and conduct research and evaluation as it relates to chronic […]
The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) released a new toolkit on how to integrate HIV care, treatment, and/or prevention services into primary care services at HRSA-funded health centers. The toolkit shares the lessons learned and resources from 22 health centers that participated in Partnerships for Care (P4C), a three-year cross-agency demonstration project (2014-2017) to...
In recognition of National Health IT Week (Oct. 8-14), NACCHO penned a blog post to join champions from across the industry in uniting to share our voices on how health IT is catalyzing change in public health and healthcare. The blog post recaps key takeaways from our 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference, which we hosted […]
By Rachel Lynch, Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Exposure to asbestos particles is the only known cause of mesothelioma cancer, a rare disease that impacts some 3,000 Americans each year. September 26th is Mesothelioma Awareness Day, the perfect opportunity to discuss what asbestos is and who is most at risk of mesothelioma cancer. The History of Asbestos […]
In July, NACCHO Government Affairs team members Eli Briggs and Ian Goldstein presented a webinar for the Michigan Public Health Training Center entitled “Making Your Voice Heard: Messaging and Advocacy for Public Health Professionals.” A recording of the webinar is available here. On the webinar, attendees learned about how and why to engage in advocacy […]
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