The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) published new environmental health success stories highlighting...
Oct 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
In November, NCHH, in collaboration with NEHA, NACCHO, and ASTHO, will offer a new funding opportunity for local governmental agencies...
On September 21, 2018, letters were mailed to governors announcing the funding for a new drinking water grant under the Water...
Sep 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is accepting applications for the 2018-19 Environmental Public Health Tracking:...
Sep 12, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis released a report called Putting Evidence to Work for Health: How...
Jul 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
A new report from the National Academy for State Health Policy, State Strategies to Improve Childhood Lead Screening and Treatment...
May 10, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) NEARS program captures environmental assessment data including...
Mar 23, 2018 | Alex Fraser
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a fact sheet to help teens and young adults learn more about sexually...
Mar 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
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...
In November, NCHH, in collaboration with NEHA, NACCHO, and ASTHO, will offer a new funding opportunity for local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention programs (i.e., local health departments, local environmental health agencies). The funding will support their agency to implement a Health in All Policies strategy as part of their lead prevention […]
On September 21, 2018, letters were mailed to governors announcing the funding for a new drinking water grant under the Water Infrastructure Improvement for the Nation Act, passed in December 2016 and appropriated by Congress in Fiscal Year 2018. The Lead Testing in School and Child Care Program Drinking Water Grant will assist local educational […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is accepting applications for the 2018-19 Environmental Public Health Tracking: Tracking Mentoring Fellowship Program. They are seeking proposals from unfunded local public health agencies to work with a tracking program grantee on an environmental health project that utilizes tracking data. Intended to increase capacity at non-funded local...
The Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis released a report called Putting Evidence to Work for Health: How Health Departments Can Encourage Evidence-Based Decision Making. Health department staff work every day to develop and implement programs and policies that keep people healthy and disease free. Evidence-based decision making (EBDM) uses the best […]
A new report from the National Academy for State Health Policy, State Strategies to Improve Childhood Lead Screening and Treatment Services under Medicaid and CHIP, “details the potential health impacts of lead toxicity in children and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for screening and treatment under Medicaid and CHIP. It also explores several state […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) NEARS program captures environmental assessment data including information on key factors that contribute to foodborne illness outbreaks. The data reporting system can benefit food safety programs within local health departments, as well as help to prevent foodborne illness outbreaks. The CDC explains the NEARS program and its...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a fact sheet to help teens and young adults learn more about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), how they are spread, and where to go to get tested and, if necessary, treated. View the print version of the fact sheet or check it out on CDC’s website, which […]
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