The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on,...
Jun 13, 2018 | Christina Baum
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information...
Jun 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
On May 7, the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
May 15, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By Meghan McGinty, PhD, MPH, MBA, Deputy Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, and Michelle Cantu, MPH, Director of Infectious...
May 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
This blog post was written by Chrissie Juliano, Director, Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), and originally posted on the BCHC Front...
Apr 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
It’s time to get ready to celebrate Hepatitis Awareness Month and the seventh annual national Hepatitis Testing Day on May 19th!...
Apr 25, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Scientific advances have made possible the development of clinical interventions that significantly lower the transmission of the HIV...
The Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) has released new research on Perceptions and Impact of HIV Stigma among High Risk...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) and Emory...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on, more local health departments (LHDs) are building their capacity for HAI prevention and response. Enhancing LHD capacity can involve a wide variety of activities such as conducting exercises that test response plans, strengthening connections with healthcare...
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) and the National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC) co-hosted a webinar focused on the U.S. healthcare system readiness for highly pathogenic infectious diseases on June 12, 2018. Speakers provided an overview of the current situation in...
On May 7, the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hosted a one-day symposium on how public health has advanced since the 1918 flu pandemic. In the context of the centenary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, experts from academia and government discussed current […]
By Meghan McGinty, PhD, MPH, MBA, Deputy Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, and Michelle Cantu, MPH, Director of Infectious Diseases and Immunization, NACCHO The month of May is designated as Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States and May 19th is Hepatitis Testing Day. During this month, NACCHO will highlight the role of local […]
This blog post was written by Chrissie Juliano, Director, Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), and originally posted on the BCHC Front Lines blog. STD Awareness Month is an opportunity to focus on raising awareness of a problem that affects millions of Americans every year. STDs in the United States are at record highs, despite years of dropping rates, […]
It’s time to get ready to celebrate Hepatitis Awareness Month and the seventh annual national Hepatitis Testing Day on May 19th! In preparation, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released the National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan Partner Planning Guide to support individuals, groups, and organizations that are conducting strategic planning efforts for hepatitis B...
Scientific advances have made possible the development of clinical interventions that significantly lower the transmission of the HIV virus. These interventions, better known as biomedical HIV prevention, consist of powerful methods that reduce HIV transmission, moving us along a path to ending the HIV epidemic. There are three primary biomedical HIV prevention tools so far: […]
The Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) has released new research on Perceptions and Impact of HIV Stigma among High Risk Populations in the US Deep South. This study examines community HIV-related stigma in the US Deep South, a region disproportionately affected by HIV. Study participants included individuals at higher risk for HIV, primarily African American men […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) and Emory University have integrated data to provide a comprehensive, national directory of health service providers in the U.S. that offer pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection. Emory’s Prep Locator, created and launched in 2016, is now powered and maintained by...
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PHI*con is a conference focusing on Public Health Informatics, Surveillance, and IT. It will be held July 22-23, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan.
The largest convening of local health department leaders and public health professionals in the United States.
NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
Feb 12, 2024 | Tori Decea
The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...
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The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated Infections, and Antimicrobial Resistance (BLOC COVID-19+)...
Aug 14, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross
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