The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
At the US Conference on AIDS, the Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) announced the launch of +series (Positive Series), an innovative...
Sep 17, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By the Children’s Environmental Health Committee of the American Public Health Association’s Environment Section Local health...
Sep 12, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Recently, at the STD Prevention Conference, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared preliminary data indicating...
Sep 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Center for Creative Leadership, with the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), is seeking applicants for the next class...
Sep 04, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC), and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) have...
Despite the many successes and advancements in the field of children’s environmental health over the past few decades, today’s...
Aug 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes is extending the application period...
Aug 20, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collaboratively developed the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards...
At the US Conference on AIDS, the Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) announced the launch of +series (Positive Series), an innovative and customizable social marketing campaign for US HIV/AIDS organizations to raise awareness about undetectable equals untransmittable (U=U) and encourage people living with HIV to remain engaged in care and on treatment. A person living with HIV who […]
By the Children’s Environmental Health Committee of the American Public Health Association’s Environment Section Local health department professionals are uniquely aware of the health issues and risks affecting their towns and cities. Some counties have a disproportionate number of homes with lead paint, and others have increasing asthma prevalence rates among children. Children are especially...
Recently, at the STD Prevention Conference, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared preliminary data indicating that in the past five years, gonorrhea diagnoses have increased by 67 percent—and emerging antibiotic resistance to azithromycin is on the rise. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), with support from the Centers for […]
The Center for Creative Leadership, with the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), is seeking applicants for the next class of the WKKF Community Leadership Network – an innovative fellowship program for local leaders to connect, grow and lead transformational change on behalf of children, families and communities. I’m reaching out to organizations I […]
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that antibiotics are the leading cause of emergency department (ED) visits for adverse drug events in children. Antibiotics save lives and are critical tools for treating infections, like those that can lead to sepsis, but […]
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC), and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) have released “Punishment is Not a Public Health Strategy: The Criminalization of Viral Hepatitis in the United States” – a fact sheet on viral hepatitis criminalization laws throughout the country. More than a dozen U.S. […]
Despite the many successes and advancements in the field of children’s environmental health over the past few decades, today’s children face an epidemic of chronic diseases and developmental disabilities linked to environmental exposures and our changing climate. There is an urgent need to put children and families back into the forefront of our nation’s actions […]
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes is extending the application period for its 2018 grants to state and local governments to control lead and other housing hazards in low-income privately-owned housing. First-time grantees can receive up to $2.3 million for these 3½ year grants; previous grantees […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collaboratively developed the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) 20 years ago. The Retail Program Standards are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. When applied in the intended manner, the Retail Program Standards should identify program […]
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