The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
On June 28, NACCHO hosted a webinar on conducting social network analyses–what they look like and how they can be applied....
Jun 28, 2018 | Christina Baum
Last month, four sections of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and...
Jun 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
HRSA’s new Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Medical Provider Locator has launched! The locator, which has been around for over a decade,...
NACCHO is pleased to release a reference document: Zika Resources for Local Health Departments. In 2017, NACCHO conducted a literature...
Jun 20, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local...
Jun 18, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO’s Infectious Diseases Team is featured in the July/August 2018 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on,...
Jun 13, 2018 | Christina Baum
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information...
Jun 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The 2017-18 flu season was high in its severity for all age groups, underscoring the importance of flu vaccination. The United States...
Jun 12, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
On June 28, NACCHO hosted a webinar on conducting social network analyses–what they look like and how they can be applied. Webinar participants were also led through an explanation and live demonstration of a recently developed toolkit from the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, A Novice’s Guide: Social Network Analysis Using R Statnet, which […]
Last month, four sections of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents were updated. Updates include the sections on human papillomavirus (HPV) and human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). View the guidelines.
HRSA’s new Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Medical Provider Locator has launched! The locator, which has been around for over a decade, just went through a ground-up re-design and re-engineering by HRSA’s Office of Information Technology, which manages the HRSA Data Warehouse. Improvements include a new map-based interface, better performance, and improved usability when using mobile […]
NACCHO is pleased to release a reference document: Zika Resources for Local Health Departments. In 2017, NACCHO conducted a literature and desk review assessment to explore local health department (LHD) preparedness and response capabilities specific to Zika virus. The literature review assessed existing resources to determine current strengths and opportunities for improvement in the following...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local officials have been investigating a cluster of cyclosporiasis illnesses associated with recalled Del Monte vegetable trays from Kwik Trip/Kwik Star locations in the United States, including Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The vegetable […]
NACCHO’s Infectious Diseases Team is featured in the July/August 2018 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Browse the article summary below and read the full article here. The 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa and subsequent cases in the United States highlighted the critical need to enhance coordination in health care […]
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on, more local health departments (LHDs) are building their capacity for HAI prevention and response. Enhancing LHD capacity can involve a wide variety of activities such as conducting exercises that test response plans, strengthening connections with healthcare...
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) and the National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC) co-hosted a webinar focused on the U.S. healthcare system readiness for highly pathogenic infectious diseases on June 12, 2018. Speakers provided an overview of the current situation in...
The 2017-18 flu season was high in its severity for all age groups, underscoring the importance of flu vaccination. The United States 2017–18 influenza season (October 1, 2017–May 19, 2018) was a high severity season with high levels of outpatient clinic and emergency department visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), high influenza-related hospitalization rates, and elevated and […]
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