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The State of Health Informatics Capacity and Needs of Local Health Departments
NACCHO, in collaboration with Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University and supported by the CDC,...
Feb 10, 2016 | Alyson Jordan
FDA Releases Retail Food Program Standards Resource Center
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the Retail Food Program Standards Resource Center, designed for state, local,...
Jan 29, 2016 | Amy Chang
At Your Service: CDC’s Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence Provide Guidance...
By Elizabeth Pace, Public Health Advisor, Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention If...
Jan 27, 2016 | Katie Regan
DASH Releases Healthy Students, Promising Futures Toolkit
The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) released the Healthy Students,...
Jan 20, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas
Foodborne Illness Outbreak Response Materials Available for Order
The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) is a multidisciplinary working group convened to increase collaboration...
Jan 20, 2016 | Amy Chang
Registration and Call for Abstracts Open for the United States Conference on AIDS
2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) and this year’s conference will take place...
Jan 04, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas
White House Launches National Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
The White House has released the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, a crucial step in addressing...
Dec 31, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Report Available from AASLD Meeting Community Affiliate Event
On November 16 during the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Annual Liver Meeting, Project Inform, the...
Dec 29, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Funding Available to Support Environmental Health Interns at Local Health Departments
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in collaboration with the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs,...
Dec 01, 2015 | Katie Regan
The State of Health Informatics Capacity and Needs of Local Health DepartmentsNACCHO, in collaboration with Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University and supported by the CDC, conducted the 2015 Informatics Needs and Capacity of Local Health Departments survey to assess the informatics capacity, gaps, threats, and opportunities of 650 local health departments in the United States. See this infographic for a look […] Feb 10, 2016 | Alyson Jordan |
FDA Releases Retail Food Program Standards Resource CenterThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the Retail Food Program Standards Resource Center, designed for state, local, tribal, and territorial regulatory agencies that are using the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) for continuous program improvement. Since the release of the Retail Program Standards in 1998, enrolled jurisdictions... Jan 29, 2016 | Amy Chang |
At Your Service: CDC’s Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence Provide Guidance and Resources for Local and State Health DepartmentsBy Elizabeth Pace, Public Health Advisor, Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention If your New Year’s resolution is to improve your health department’s foodborne illness investigations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoEs) can help. The CoEs were established under the […] Jan 27, 2016 | Katie Regan |
DASH Releases Healthy Students, Promising Futures ToolkitThe Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) released the Healthy Students, Promising Futures toolkit with tools and resources developed for healthcare providers, educational agencies, and state and community leaders. These materials focus on five high impact opportunities and were designed to increase access to health insurance to... Jan 20, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Foodborne Illness Outbreak Response Materials Available for OrderThe Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) is a multidisciplinary working group convened to increase collaboration across the country and across relevant areas of expertise in order to reduce the burden of foodborne illness in the United States. NACCHO has hard copies of the Second Edition of the CIFOR Guidelines and the CIFOR Industry Guidelines available […] Jan 20, 2016 | Amy Chang |
Registration and Call for Abstracts Open for the United States Conference on AIDS2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) and this year’s conference will take place September 15-18 in Hollywood, Florida. For nearly two decades, USCA has sought to increase the strength and diversity of the community-based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through education, training, new partnerships, collaboration, and networking. This year, USCA... Jan 04, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas |
White House Launches National Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant TuberculosisThe White House has released the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, a crucial step in addressing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a growing public health threat that reflects missed opportunities to find, cure, and prevent TB at the earliest stages of infection. Despite being preventable and curable, TB ranks alongside HIV as the top cause of […] Dec 31, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Report Available from AASLD Meeting Community Affiliate EventOn November 16 during the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Annual Liver Meeting, Project Inform, the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, Caring Ambassadors Program, Harm Reduction Coalition, Hepatitis C Mentor & Support Group, and the Hepatitis Education Project hosted an affiliate event during which a group of leading medical providers presented about […] Dec 29, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Funding Available to Support Environmental Health Interns at Local Health DepartmentsThe National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in collaboration with the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs, is accepting applications for 30 summer 2016 environmental health interns sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Local, state, and tribal environmental health departments are eligible to host students from accredited universities and... Dec 01, 2015 | Katie Regan |
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