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Health Literacy Month: Health Literacy as an Issue of Health Equity
In the last decade, health equity has increasingly become a critical concern in the field of public health. From the local to federal...
Oct 31, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
NOW RECRUITING: NACCHO Health and Disability Fellowship Program
By Sara Lyons, NACCHO Program Analyst The NACCHO Health and Disability Fellowship program is an invaluable workforce development...
Oct 27, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Funding Opportunity: 2017 AFDO Retail Program Standards Grant Program
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) are seeking applicants for the 2017...
Oct 19, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Celebrate National DIS Recognition Day!
The 5th Annual National DIS Recognition Day is October 7, 2016. Created by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and...
Oct 05, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Conference Recap: EPA Local Government Advisory Committee Meeting
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) met on July 27-29, 2016 in Washington, DC to...
Sep 15, 2016 | Chelsea Gridley-Smith
CDC: STD Prevention Success Stories
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) recently developed a series of...
Aug 03, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Conference Recap: NACCHO at the 2016 National Environmental Health Association...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) hosted its annual conference and exhibition (AEC) in partnership with the U.S....
Aug 02, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
New Food Safety Performance Measurement Tool
The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) recently released a new data entry tool to support state and local health...
Jul 19, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
New Resources Posted: Conference For Food Protection Website
Following this April’s successful Biennial Conference, a number of documents developed during or as a result of the meeting are now...
Jul 12, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Health Literacy Month: Health Literacy as an Issue of Health EquityIn the last decade, health equity has increasingly become a critical concern in the field of public health. From the local to federal levels, there’s been a call for research, initiatives, and outreach that minimize health inequities and provide opportunities for all people to reach optimal health. Through these efforts, there’s been growing acknowledgement that […] Oct 31, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
NOW RECRUITING: NACCHO Health and Disability Fellowship ProgramBy Sara Lyons, NACCHO Program Analyst The NACCHO Health and Disability Fellowship program is an invaluable workforce development opportunity for graduate level students and recent alumni interested getting hands on experience in the public health disability field. Last year’s fellows along with NACCHO Health and DIsability leadership staff are pictured on the right, presenting their... Oct 27, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Funding Opportunity: 2017 AFDO Retail Program Standards Grant ProgramThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) are seeking applicants for the 2017 AFDO-administered Retail Program Standards Grant Program. State, local, territorial, and tribal regulatory retail food programs enrolled in the Retail Program Standards are encouraged to apply by from November 2- December 1, 2016. This program provides […] Oct 19, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Celebrate National DIS Recognition Day!The 5th Annual National DIS Recognition Day is October 7, 2016. Created by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and celebrated annually on the first Friday of October, National DIS Recognition Day aims to praise, congratulate, and honor disease intervention specialists (DIS) – the “warriors” of the sexually-transmitted disease (STD) world. To reward this workforce’s... Oct 05, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Conference Recap: EPA Local Government Advisory Committee MeetingThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) met on July 27-29, 2016 in Washington, DC to discuss high priority issues for the EPA and local, state, and tribal governments working on environmental efforts. The LGAC is composed of locally elected and appointed officials (e.g., mayors, county executives, city managers, commissioners, etc.), state... Sep 15, 2016 | Chelsea Gridley-Smith |
CDC: STD Prevention Success StoriesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) recently developed a series of STD prevention success stories to highlight state and local achievements in STD prevention. The CDC has worked with state and local health department programs to prevent the spread of STDs for more than 50 years. These programs are critical to […] Aug 03, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Conference Recap: NACCHO at the 2016 National Environmental Health Association Annual ConferenceThe National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) hosted its annual conference and exhibition (AEC) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), earlier this summer in June. Described as the “nexus for environmental health training, education, networking and achievement,” this four-day event focused on how to move environmental health outside the box. As a... Aug 02, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
New Food Safety Performance Measurement ToolThe Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) recently released a new data entry tool to support state and local health departments and partner agencies in measuring their food safety progress. In collaboration with the Minnesota Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence (CoE) and CoE Metrics Work Group, and through a contract managed by the Association of Public […] Jul 19, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
New Resources Posted: Conference For Food Protection WebsiteFollowing this April’s successful Biennial Conference, a number of documents developed during or as a result of the meeting are now available on the Conference for Food Protection (CFP) website. All of the below documents represent a great deal of work performed by CFP Council Committees, and were reviewed and accepted by the CFP Councils […] Jul 12, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
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