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Heroin Crisis: Nevada Becomes First State to Install Syringe Vending Machines

In a new approach to combat rising heroin and HIV rates, Las Vegas has implemented vending machines of clean needles. The syringe...

May 09, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Air Quality Awareness Week 2017: Be Air Aware

    By: Emily Walsh, Community Outreach Director, Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance For over a decade, the Environmental Health Agency (EPA),...

    May 03, 2017 | Guest Author

  • Environmental Health and Accreditation in Indian River County, FL

    By Julianne Price, Environmental Health Coordinator, Florida Department of Health in Indian River County Environmental health...

    Sep 15, 2015 | Katie Regan

  • Step It Up! Surgeon General Announces Walking and Walkable Communities Promotion

    Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities recognizes the importance of physical...

    Sep 10, 2015 | Bridget Kerner

    • Health in All Policies, Policy

    Keep Calm and Carry on to School

    Keep Calm and Carry On to School: Improving Arrival and Dismissal for Walking and Biking is a new infobrief from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. The brief provides information on how schools, districts, cities, counties, and community partners can address arrival and dismissal in school travel plans as well as other planning, policy, […]

    Jul 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    Vector Control

    Pest and Rodent Control Tour of the French Quarter at NACCHO Annual

    Join the City of New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board (NOMTCB) at NACCHO Annual for a pest control tour in the historic French Quarter. The tour will describe challenges and solutions to pests such as cockroaches, flies, termites, rodents, and mosquitoes. Urban pest and vector professionals from NOMTCB will take the participants to […]

    Jun 15, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    Tools & Resources, Physical Activity

    New CDC Physical Activity & Health Branch Community Strategies Website

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Physical Activity and Health Branch created a new Community Strategies website. The website supports the work of several rounds of new grant opportunities, including the new State Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) Program, and it further supports existing efforts such as the Surgeon General’s Call to Action […]

    Apr 20, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    Health & Disability, Rural and Frontier Health, Rural Health

    Four Strategies for Rural Health Departments to Engage People with Disabilities

    By Whitney Thurman, NACCHO Health & Disability Fellow Rural America is as diverse as its people, reflecting the unique geography, culture, and history of each location. In 2016, approximately 46 million people lived in rural areas of the United States, accounting for about 14% of the population. People in rural areas have fewer resources and opportunities […]

    Mar 20, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    Heroin Crisis: Nevada Becomes First State to Install Syringe Vending Machines

    In a new approach to combat rising heroin and HIV rates, Las Vegas has implemented vending machines of clean needles. The syringe exchange vending machines, a first in the United States, aren’t open to just anyone walking by; they are accessible to clients of Trac-B Exchange, a program run by the Las Vegas Harm Reduction […]

    May 09, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Air Quality Awareness Week 2017: Be Air Aware

    By: Emily Walsh, Community Outreach Director, Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance For over a decade, the Environmental Health Agency (EPA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) have come together to host Air Quality Awareness Week (AQAW), celebrated annually during the first week of May. Although air quality […]

    May 03, 2017 | Guest Author

    Environmental Health and Accreditation in Indian River County, FL

    By Julianne Price, Environmental Health Coordinator, Florida Department of Health in Indian River County Environmental health professionals who don’t have a seat at their local table for accreditation efforts should pull up a chair and join the group. For many years, the environmental health profession has held fast to the roots of enforcement and regulation. […]

    Sep 15, 2015 | Katie Regan

    Step It Up! Surgeon General Announces Walking and Walkable Communities Promotion

    Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities recognizes the importance of physical activity for people of all ages and abilities. It calls on Americans to be more physically active through walking and calls on the nation to better support walking and walkability. Improving walkability means that communities […]

    Sep 10, 2015 | Bridget Kerner

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