The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
On Friday, March 20, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) published a press release highlighting the critical role of the...
Mar 24, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
A new American Journal of Public Health article reviews an in-depth assessment and analysis of the current challenges and emerging...
Feb 20, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
Following the release of new recommendations issued by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Centers for...
Feb 04, 2020 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
By Nnandi Massac, Communications Intern The holiday season has arrived and with it comes family gatherings, work parties, and...
Dec 11, 2019 | Guest Author
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) created an Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) Health...
Nov 27, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO released the following statement in response to the newly released Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report, 2019 from the Centers...
Nov 13, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is making available a scientifically validated method for testing for 16 types of per- and...
Nov 04, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association’s (NEHA’s) board of directors approved a new policy statement on the...
Jul 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
More than a quarter of homes in Maine were built before 1950, when lead paint was widely used. Lead in the blood of infants and...
Jul 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
On Friday, March 20, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) published a press release highlighting the critical role of the STD workforce in responding to COVID-19 and calling for an increase in funding for STD prevention to bolster the response to the both the COVID-19 and STD crises. According to the statement, more than […]
A new American Journal of Public Health article reviews an in-depth assessment and analysis of the current challenges and emerging issues faced by EH professionals: the Understanding the Needs, Challenges, Opportunities, Vision, and Emerging Roles in Environmental Health (UNCOVER EH) initiative. The article provides results of the assessment, which included more than 1,700 practitioners. Focus...
Following the release of new recommendations issued by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2020 child/adolescent and adult immunization schedules. The 2020 adult immunization schedule includes several updates and additions. Adults up to age 26 who are not fully vaccinated should receive catch-up HPV...
By Nnandi Massac, Communications Intern The holiday season has arrived and with it comes family gatherings, work parties, and something less fun: increased flu activity. In the first two months of this flu season (October 1 to November 30), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 2.5 million illnesses, 1.2 million medical […]
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) created an Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) Health Department Engagement Map. The map highlights various state and local health departments that have endorsed and are implementing the Prevention Access Campaign’s U=U consensus statement and message. Learn more.
NACCHO released the following statement in response to the newly released Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report, 2019 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report reveals the threat of antibiotic resistance is bigger than previously projected and continues to grow, resulting in at least 2.8 million infections, more than 35,000 deaths, and billions […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is making available a scientifically validated method for testing for 16 types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a variety of food groups.
The National Environmental Health Association’s (NEHA’s) board of directors approved a new policy statement on the adoption of the current Food and Drug Administration Food Code by all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governmental agencies to promote the most current knowledge on food safety. Read more.
More than a quarter of homes in Maine were built before 1950, when lead paint was widely used. Lead in the blood of infants and children can cause health and developmental problems and affect nearly every system in the body. Maine had required inspection of a child’s home if the child’s blood lead level went […]
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