Hidden Casualties Webinars: Local, State, & National Partners’ Responses to...

The opioid crisis in the United States has resulted in alarming increases in opioid use disorders, injection drug use, overdose...

Feb 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • NASTAD Call to Action: Supervised Injection Facilities

    In response to increasing incidence of hepatitis, HIV, and overdose death related to opioid and other drug use in America, the...

    Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • NACCHO Releases 2017 Forces of Change Report: The Changing Public Health Landscape

    NACCHO’s Research and Evaluation team is excited to announce the release of the 2017 Forces of Change report, The Changing...

    Nov 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Success Stories: Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics

    As part of this year’s Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s Challenge, the National Alliance of State and...

    Nov 03, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • NASTAD Call to Action: Urgent Response to Nation’s Hepatitis C Epidemic

    In response to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) release of A National Strategy for the...

    Aug 01, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Linking Data Systems for Faster Flu Responses in the County of San Diego

    With another flu season come and gone, the summer season is a prime opportunity to make improvements and prepare for the next year’s...

    Jul 24, 2017 | Sara Chang

  • Report: Monitoring the Hepatitis C Epidemic in the U.S.: What Tools are Needed to...

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 3.5 million Americans currently have HCV infection, and...

    Jun 16, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Download the NACCHO Exchange on Opioids

    Please view this document for instructions on how to download the Winter 2017 NACCHO Exchange on the local health department response...

    Feb 09, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Hidden Casualties Webinars: Local, State, & National Partners’ Responses to Infectious Disease Consequences of Opioid Epidemic

    The opioid crisis in the United States has resulted in alarming increases in opioid use disorders, injection drug use, overdose deaths, and infectious diseases in communities across the United States. Fighting the opioid epidemic is a national priority at the highest levels of the Administration and President Trump has declared it a public health emergency. […]

    Feb 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    NASTAD Call to Action: Supervised Injection Facilities

    In response to increasing incidence of hepatitis, HIV, and overdose death related to opioid and other drug use in America, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has evaluated evidence-based interventions intended to address these intersecting epidemics, including Supervised Injection Facilities. As part of this work, NASTAD released Call to Action: Supervised...

    Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    NACCHO Releases 2017 Forces of Change Report: The Changing Public Health Landscape

    NACCHO’s Research and Evaluation team is excited to announce the release of the 2017 Forces of Change report, The Changing Public Health Landscape, containing new findings on the forces that are affecting the nation’s local health departments (LHDs). Results show that although the economic situation is slowly improving for many LHDs, one in five still […]

    Nov 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Success Stories: Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics

    As part of this year’s Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s Challenge, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released the second installment in a series of success stories collected from around the nation. This installment features programs from Michigan, North Carolina, and Philadelphia and highlights their health […]

    Nov 03, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    NASTAD Call to Action: Urgent Response to Nation’s Hepatitis C Epidemic

    In response to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) release of A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C: Phase Two Report, the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has issued a Call to Action and accompanying Blog Post for an urgent response to the […]

    Aug 01, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Linking Data Systems for Faster Flu Responses in the County of San Diego

    With another flu season come and gone, the summer season is a prime opportunity to make improvements and prepare for the next year’s response. As such, NACCHO staff took time to speak with Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow Robyn Matthews, MPH, to learn about her project to improve public health response to influenza by leveraging […]

    Jul 24, 2017 | Sara Chang

    Report: Monitoring the Hepatitis C Epidemic in the U.S.: What Tools are Needed to Achieve Elimination?

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 3.5 million Americans currently have HCV infection, and rates of new infections have increased nearly 2.9-fold between 2010 and 2015. The latest data from 2015 indicate that an estimated 33,900 new infections occurred that year alone. With a growing consensus in the global health community that […]

    Jun 16, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Download the NACCHO Exchange on Opioids

    Please view this document for instructions on how to download the Winter 2017 NACCHO Exchange on the local health department response to the opioid epidemic. For more information, please contact Gretchen Weiss, Director, HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, NACCHO.

    Feb 09, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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