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NACCHO Request for Proposal: Seeking Consultant for Issue Brief
With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NACCHO will be developing an issue brief that explores the...
Aug 15, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Scholarship Application: National HIV PrEP Summit
Aug 10, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Funding Opportunity to Enhance Resilience in the Gulf of Mexico Region
The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is...
Aug 09, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
New Funding Opportunity for Local Health Department Accreditation Preparation Support
NACCHO is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for local health departments. With funding from the CDC’s Office for State,...
Aug 09, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
The PATH to Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance
By Natalie Mulloy, NACCHO Government Affairs Intern According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), antibiotic or...
Aug 05, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
CDC Awards New Antibiotic Resistance and Food Safety Funds to Health Departments
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is awarding $30 million to state and local health departments supporting their...
Aug 04, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
CDC: STD Prevention Success Stories
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) recently developed a series of...
Aug 03, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Updated Policy Statement on Mosquito Control
NACCHO just released an updated policy statement on mosquito control to support the need for successful coordinated mosquito...
Jul 25, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
The Health Impact Assessment: Building Environmental Health Capacity
By Sandra Whitehead, PhD, Director of Program and Partnership Development, National Environmental Health Association More and more,...
Jul 08, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
NACCHO Request for Proposal: Seeking Consultant for Issue BriefWith funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NACCHO will be developing an issue brief that explores the expanding role of Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) and new opportunities resulting from this expanded role, especially opportunities available through health system reform and new or emerging healthcare reimbursement mechanisms. Topics addressed will include the... Aug 15, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Scholarship Application: National HIV PrEP SummitAug 10, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Funding Opportunity to Enhance Resilience in the Gulf of Mexico RegionThe Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is awarding $10 million in an effort to enhancing coastal community resilience. Ideal grant recipients are researchers and community members engaged in both scientific and practical environmental efforts, seeking to identify key factors contributing to the […] Aug 09, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
New Funding Opportunity for Local Health Department Accreditation Preparation SupportNACCHO is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for local health departments. With funding from the CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local, & Territorial Support (OSTLTS), NACCHO will be offering a sixth year of Accreditation Support Initiative (ASI) awards. These awards are intended to stimulate quality improvement and promote the readiness of health departments to […] Aug 09, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
The PATH to Combatting Antimicrobial ResistanceBy Natalie Mulloy, NACCHO Government Affairs Intern According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), antibiotic or antimicrobial resistance is one of the most pressing health challenges in our nation. Antibiotic or antimicrobial resistance occurs when microbes are able to spread despite the treatment of drugs, placing individuals at high risk for death. Recently, an […] Aug 05, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
CDC Awards New Antibiotic Resistance and Food Safety Funds to Health DepartmentsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is awarding $30 million to state and local health departments supporting their efforts of tracking, investigating and preventing foodborne illness. Grant recipients will receive training for and access to advanced technology, including whole genome sequencers to improve detection and surveillance for antibiotic-resistance intestinal bacteria.... Aug 04, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
CDC: STD Prevention Success StoriesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) recently developed a series of STD prevention success stories to highlight state and local achievements in STD prevention. The CDC has worked with state and local health department programs to prevent the spread of STDs for more than 50 years. These programs are critical to […] Aug 03, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Updated Policy Statement on Mosquito ControlNACCHO just released an updated policy statement on mosquito control to support the need for successful coordinated mosquito management programs at the local level through the provision of additional funds and research to create, integrate, and coordinate local mosquito control plans with existing district and state plans. The statement also urges Congress to enact, fully fund, and […] Jul 25, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
The Health Impact Assessment: Building Environmental Health CapacityBy Sandra Whitehead, PhD, Director of Program and Partnership Development, National Environmental Health Association More and more, local health departments (LHDs) are being forced to cut their environmental health programs. This pattern is caused by shrinking budgets and further compounded by limited understanding of the value of the environmental health field and the roles of its […] Jul 08, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
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