The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
NACCHO's biweekly roundup of resources for public health professionals at the intersection of environmental health and COVID-19.
Feb 02, 2021 | Anu Varma
CDC epidemiologists have published the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of waterborne disease in the United States, showing...
Dec 15, 2020 | Guest Author
CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases has produced a new video series, “Was It Something I Ate?,” which...
Feb 19, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The goal of the 2020 Legionella Conference is to provide a unique opportunity for health care facilities, water utilities, health...
Feb 11, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch (ORPB) and the InFORM Epidemiology Planning Committee are soliciting nominations for the...
Nov 04, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
To address concerns about waterborne diseases, leading voices representing public health, the scientific community, water treatment...
Aug 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO held a webinar on May 23, 2019 to recognize Healthy and Safe Swimming Week. The webinar included the latest epidemiologic data...
Jun 11, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Legionella Conference 2019 provides a unique opportunity for sustained discussions on how we can align our water and energy...
Mar 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This ECHO series has been designed to encourage foodborne epidemiologists to take advantage of a variety of data and tools available...
Feb 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC epidemiologists have published the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of waterborne disease in the United States, showing that every year, diseases that spread through water cause 7.15 million illnesses and 6,630 deaths, and cost our healthcare system more than $3.3 billion.
CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases has produced a new video series, “Was It Something I Ate?,” which presents stories of people who developed serious enteric (intestinal) infections from food or animal contact. The stories are from families with children who developed Salmonella infection from eating contaminated chicken or contact with backyard poultry, […]
The goal of the 2020 Legionella Conference is to provide a unique opportunity for health care facilities, water utilities, health departments, industry professionals and regulators to work together to identify best practices for the prevention of waterborne disease. Any qualified person that has valuable information on this topic is invited to submit an abstract to be […]
The Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch (ORPB) and the InFORM Epidemiology Planning Committee are soliciting nominations for the Bill Keene Award for Excellence in Epidemiology. This award recognizes local, state, tribal or territorial public health epidemiologists who investigate outbreaks of foodborne, waterborne, zoonotic, and other enteric disease in the United States.
To address concerns about waterborne diseases, leading voices representing public health, the scientific community, water treatment experts, impacted populations, and the federal government joined together on May 23, 2019 at the National Summit on Waterborne Disease: Source-to-Tap Solutions for Infrastructure Policy in Washington, DC at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center....
NACCHO held a webinar on May 23, 2019 to recognize Healthy and Safe Swimming Week. The webinar included the latest epidemiologic data on pool chemical injuries and how you can prevent these incidents as a pool operator or inspector. Watch the recording. Download the slides. Additional Resources: A new training video examines the issue of […]
The Legionella Conference 2019 provides a unique opportunity for sustained discussions on how we can align our water and energy sustainability and public health goals. Hosted by NSF International and NEHA on September 11–13 in Los Angeles, CA, the conference will focus on water conservation and the prevention of Legionella and other waterborne pathogens Oral presentations will be given […]
This ECHO series has been designed to encourage foodborne epidemiologists to take advantage of a variety of data and tools available to them when generating a hypothesis for an outbreak detected through pathogen-based surveillance. In the four, 1-hour sessions, foodborne epidemiologists will engage with peers and experts as they are encouraged to utilize a variety […]
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