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 (CDC) published a Measles Outbreak Toolkit for Local/State Health Departments to help...
Jun 05, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Since 2017, multiple states have been engaged in outbreak responses as a result of increased cases of Hepatitis A. In a June 2018...
May 31, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) is pleased to share the 2017 AIM Annual Survey, which explored the 64 states, local and...
May 29, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
Pediatricians play an important role in communicating with state and local public health entities and electronic health record (EHR)...
May 28, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
To help clarify recommendations for adult measles, mumps, & rubella (MMR) vaccination and assessing immunity, the Centers for...
May 20, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
May 18th marked HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD), a health observance recognizing the researchers, health professionals, activists,...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has announced awards to establish four...
The year of 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in human history,...
May 13, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
While National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is still fresh in your mind, please take a few minutes to complete CDC’s Post-NIIW...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Measles Outbreak Toolkit for Local/State Health Departments to help these agencies counter misinformation in communities affected by measles outbreaks. The toolkit includes: Measles FAQs CDC’s Measles Microsite, which you can syndicate on your agency website Template letters for communicating with school principals, parents,...
Since 2017, multiple states have been engaged in outbreak responses as a result of increased cases of Hepatitis A. In a June 2018 Health Alert Advisory, the Centers for Disease Control stated that of the more than 1,900 reports for which risk factors are known, more than 1,300 (68%) of the infected persons report drug […]
The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) is pleased to share the 2017 AIM Annual Survey, which explored the 64 states, local and territorial immunization program (IP) policies, infrastructure, activities, priorities and the impact of funding changes. The survey was administered from June-October 2017. A snapshot infographic has been created to distribute the 2017 survey results in a...
Pediatricians play an important role in communicating with state and local public health entities and electronic health record (EHR) vendors about the functionality needed to help pediatric practices and patients receive the full benefits of use of immunization information systems (IISs) and two-dimensional (2D) barcode scanning and their interaction with EHRs. New from the American […]
To help clarify recommendations for adult measles, mumps, & rubella (MMR) vaccination and assessing immunity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new “Dear Provider” letter to address the following important points in more detail: Providers do not need to actively screen adult patients for measles immunity. This is because of high population immunity […]
May 18th marked HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD), a health observance recognizing the researchers, health professionals, activists, and volunteers involved in advancing HIV vaccine research. See the resources below that have been developed in honor of HVAD 2019: Blogs HIV.gov: HIV Vaccine Awareness Day 2019, by Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and […]
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has announced awards to establish four Cooperative Research Centers (CRCs) focused on developing vaccines to prevent sexually transmitted infections. The grants, totaling $41.6 million over five years, will support collaborative, multidisciplinary research on the bacteria that cause syphilis, gonorrhea...
The year of 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in human history, which took the lives of more than 50 million people. While there have been advances in mitigating the threat of pandemics since then, recent epidemics shed light on the major gaps in human […]
While National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is still fresh in your mind, please take a few minutes to complete CDC’s Post-NIIW Survey and share your feedback on this year’s planning and promotional materials available from the CDC. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to share feedback on promotional materials available from the CDC and the […]
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