The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Last week, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced the first cases of a concerning new gonorrhea strain. The new...
Feb 01, 2023 | Rebekah Horowitz
In May 2022, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) convened a group of national experts to develop a...
Feb 01, 2023
New report reviews the current utility of community-level wastewater surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential for...
Jan 19, 2023 | Rebecca Rainey
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Dec 31, 2022
Social media was both an incubator for misinformation that local health officials have had to combat as well as a strategic tool that...
Dec 29, 2022 | Charlotte Ciampa
This is the second of a two-part blog series presenting two fictional, but possible, case studies for you to consider. We also provide...
Dec 19, 2022 | Irene Halferty
HAIs and AMR are a threat to patients, and subsequently, public health safety. Rural, Frontier, and Small LHDs face distinct barriers...
Dec 01, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
Have you ever wondered where the creepy creatures with Halloween originated? Believe it or not, local health departments still keep...
Oct 18, 2022 | Kimberly Nalley, Jaclyn Abramson, Graham Briggs, Erin Laird
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory about a recently...
Oct 06, 2022 | Beth Hess
Last week, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced the first cases of a concerning new gonorrhea strain. The new strain shows reduced response to multiple antibiotics and another case was also found that had genetic markers that indicate a similar drug response. The clinical alert from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health can be found here.
In May 2022, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) convened a group of national experts to develop a national research agenda for sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention and treatment for the next five years.
New report reviews the current utility of community-level wastewater surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential for the control and prevention of other infectious diseases.
Social media was both an incubator for misinformation that local health officials have had to combat as well as a strategic tool that health departments used to inform the behavioral health of the public during the pandemic.
This is the second of a two-part blog series presenting two fictional, but possible, case studies for you to consider. We also provide links to helpful resources from Project Firstline.
HAIs and AMR are a threat to patients, and subsequently, public health safety. Rural, Frontier, and Small LHDs face distinct barriers and can provide leadership in surveillance, outbreak investigations, and prevention by collaborating with healthcare and community partners.
Have you ever wondered where the creepy creatures with Halloween originated? Believe it or not, local health departments still keep these monsters at bay with the work they do every day.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory about a recently confirmed outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Uganda caused by Sudan virus (species Sudan ebolavirus) to summarize CDC’s recommendations for U.S. public health departments and clinicians, case identification and testing, and clinical laboratory biosafety...
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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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