The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
As part of the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO’s) work to support and serve 3,000 local health...
Oct 15, 2020 | Anu Varma
Public health and health policy experts agree it is imperative to identify and address health disparities and health care inequities...
Jul 28, 2020 | Kimberly Aguillard
As an organization focused on strengthening clinical-community partnerships to implement upstream work that address health equity,...
Jun 04, 2020 | Ashley Edmiston
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released five principles as a compass to point leaders to an equitable and lasting recovery from the...
May 28, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Praxis Project has launched the ‘Centering Community in Public Health’ initiative. Over the past three years, Praxis...
Mar 04, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
To expand use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), interventions to increase PrEP awareness, should encourage health care providers...
Sep 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
To improve the health and well-being of communities oppressed by racism and white supremacy, advocates for justice need to challenge...
Jul 30, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
This guide from the Government Alliance and Race and Equity (GARE) is meant to serve as a toolkit for informal and formal...
Jul 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s...
Jul 07, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As part of the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO’s) work to support and serve 3,000 local health departments (LHDs) in the United States, NACCHO will be releasing a bi-weekly blog consisting of an up-to-date collection of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) resources for our members working at the intersection of environmental health and COVID-19.
Public health and health policy experts agree it is imperative to identify and address health disparities and health care inequities that historically disadvantaged groups have experienced. However, these efforts often fail to reach and engage marginalized groups and sub-populations with disabilities.
As an organization focused on strengthening clinical-community partnerships to implement upstream work that address health equity, HealthBegins developed a guide that can help local health departments apply a health equity lens to their contact tracing workforce approach.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released five principles as a compass to point leaders to an equitable and lasting recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Praxis Project has launched the ‘Centering Community in Public Health’ initiative. Over the past three years, Praxis held Learning Circles with over 100 community-based organizations to collectively tackle the challenges of advancing health justice and racial equity and to identify critical elements of authentic engagement. Basebuilding community organizers employ best practices...
To expand use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), interventions to increase PrEP awareness, should encourage health care providers to discuss PrEP, destigmatize PrEP use, and promote racial/ethnic equity in PrEP access. PrEP is a daily oral pill that reduces the risk for sexual acquisition of HIV by about 99% when taken daily as prescribed.
To improve the health and well-being of communities oppressed by racism and white supremacy, advocates for justice need to challenge some deeply held cultural assumptions, values, and practices. This prerogative raises a series of questions: How can we disrupt the narratives that perpetuate racism and white privilege? What counternarratives and stories need to be told […]
This guide from the Government Alliance and Race and Equity (GARE) is meant to serve as a toolkit for informal and formal communications about your jurisdiction’s work toward racial equity. Communicating about race and structural racial inequities can feel like a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. GARE learned and developed many best practices […]
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s Health Equity in All Policies initiative, led by the BPHC Office of Health Equity, is to better equip city departments to address racial justice and health equity issues within their sectors. Florida Department of Health in […]
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NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
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