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Call for Abstracts: NACCHO Annual 2018

The call for abstracts for NACCHO Annual 2018, to be held July 10-12, 2018 in New Orleans, LA, is now open. This year’s theme is...

Dec 11, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • CDC Reports: Waterborne Disease Outbreaks

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released two reports describing waterborne disease outbreaks: Outbreaks...

    Nov 10, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Apply for NACCHO’s 2018 Model Practices Awards!

    Are you ready to share your best and brightest work with your health department colleagues? NACCHO’s 2018 Model & Promising...

    Nov 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Commentary: CDC’s 2016 STD Surveillance Report

    Increasing STD rates highlight the need to work together, commit to doing what we know works, and develop new tools and approaches to...

    Sep 26, 2017 | Gretchen Weiss

  • Defending Retail Food Supplies from Food Terrorism in Cuyahoga County, Ohio

    By: Jim Armstrong, MS, RS, Program Manager, Environmental Public Health Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Health Importance of Food...

    Sep 22, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • CDC Awards $200M to Fight Infectious Diseases & Antibiotic Resistance

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded more than $200 million through the Epidemiology and Laboratory...

    Aug 24, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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    Funding Opportunity: Strengthening STD Prevention and Control for Health Departments

    Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) issued a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) –Strengthening STD Prevention and Control for Health Departments, or STD PCHD. Eligible applicants include state, local and territorial health departments or their Bona Fide Agents currently funded under PS14-1402:Improving Sexually...

    May 01, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Antibiotic Resistance, Infectious Disease

    CDC Vital Signs Report: Containing Unusual Resistance

    Health departments working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Lab Network found more than 220 instances of germs with “unusual” antibiotic resistance genes in the United States last year, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report. Germs with “unusual resistance” are resistant to all or most antibiotics tested, making...

    Apr 06, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    All of Us, Healthy People 2030

    National Public Health Week 2018: Changing Our Future Together

    National Public Health Week (NPHW), organized annually by the American Public Health Association, presents an opportunity for communities across the United States to reflect on the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation. More importantly, NPHW serves as an excellent reminder of why public health exists: to tackle the […]

    Mar 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Call for Abstracts: NACCHO Annual 2018

    The call for abstracts for NACCHO Annual 2018, to be held July 10-12, 2018 in New Orleans, LA, is now open. This year’s theme is “Unleashing the Power of Local Public Health.”  The conference provides attendees the opportunity to share the latest research and ideas, network, and test their assumptions about the issues and topics […]

    Dec 11, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    CDC Reports: Waterborne Disease Outbreaks

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released two reports describing waterborne disease outbreaks: Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water—United States, 2013–2014 and Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Environmental and Undetermined Exposures to Water—United States, 2013–2014. These reports describe 69 waterborne disease outbreaks reported from 2013 to 2014. One of...

    Nov 10, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Apply for NACCHO’s 2018 Model Practices Awards!

    Are you ready to share your best and brightest work with your health department colleagues? NACCHO’s 2018 Model & Promising Practices program honors and recognizes outstanding local health initiatives from across the nation, and shares and promotes these practices among local health departments via the Model Practice Database. Model and Promising Practices cut across all […]

    Nov 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Commentary: CDC’s 2016 STD Surveillance Report

    Increasing STD rates highlight the need to work together, commit to doing what we know works, and develop new tools and approaches to address persistent challenges and emerging threats. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Surveillance Report, 2016. For a third year in a row, rates […]

    Sep 26, 2017 | Gretchen Weiss

    Defending Retail Food Supplies from Food Terrorism in Cuyahoga County, Ohio

    By: Jim Armstrong, MS, RS, Program Manager, Environmental Public Health Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Health Importance of Food Defense In 2004, Tommy Thompson, former director of the Department of Health and Human Services, famously said, “I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is […]

    Sep 22, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    CDC Awards $200M to Fight Infectious Diseases & Antibiotic Resistance

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded more than $200 million through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) cooperative agreement to help states, cities, counties, and territories prevent, detect, respond to, and control the growing threats posed by emerging and re-emerging infectious disease, as well as antibiotic resistance. State...

    Aug 24, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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