The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network)...
Feb 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences released new data to the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, an...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is...
Dec 28, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate, is a report that was established to provide an independent, global...
Dec 14, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development developed a Healthy Homes Youth App to help preteens learn about their indoor...
Nov 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Note: This is the fourth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Nov 08, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Center for Healthy Housing, in collaboration with the National Environmental Health Association, the National Association...
Nov 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) published new environmental health success stories highlighting...
Oct 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily responsible for investigations of these outbreaks. Typically, investigations involve epidemiology, laboratory, and environmental health components. Health departments voluntarily report epidemiologic and laboratory data from their foodborne illness outbreak investigations to...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) is a dynamic surveillance system that provides information and data about environmental hazards and the health problems that may be related to them. The Tracking Network connects people with vital information on a variety of health and environmental topics, now...
CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences released new data to the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, an ongoing biomonitoring assessment of the U.S. population’s exposure to environmental chemicals. The Updated Tables, January, 2019 provides nationally-representative biomonitoring data from CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) that has...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is pleased to announce a call for applications for a new funding opportunity with the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS), which is a surveillance system that captures environmental assessment data from foodborne illness outbreak investigations in...
The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate, is a report that was established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the health dimensions of the impacts of, and the response to, climate change. The Lancet Countdown’s 2018 report tracks 41 indicators across five key domains in health and climate change, […]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development developed a Healthy Homes Youth App to help preteens learn about their indoor environment, including common hazards found in homes like lead, mold, and indoor air pollutants. The app is currently available for Apple devices here.
Note: This is the fourth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. November 2018 Dear Greener Guidance, I am working on revising our local health department cemetery guidelines to include green burials. I wondered if any other health department in the country has any “best practices” […]
The National Center for Healthy Housing, in collaboration with the National Environmental Health Association, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, is offering a new funding opportunity for local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention programs (i.e., local health...
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) published new environmental health success stories highlighting promising and useful practices and implementation strategies developed by state and territorial health agencies: Wisconsin Creates Local Adaptation Strategies for Weather-Related Emergencies Ensuring Drinking Water Safety Through the Massachusetts Assistance Program...
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