The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Vital Signs report showing that more than 119,000 people suffered...
Mar 05, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is accepting...
Feb 28, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is soliciting applications that...
Feb 26, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Fighting the opioid crisis and other substance use disorders is a national priority at the highest levels of the Administration and in...
Feb 15, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Today, February 14, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a new national analysis in Morbidity and...
Feb 14, 2019 | Samantha Ritter
The opioid overdose epidemic in America continues to evolve and become more complex. States, territories, and localities need access...
Feb 11, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation (COF) for the Advancement of Public Health seeks to support community-based public health...
Feb 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
On December 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Carolyn Wester, MD, MPH as the permanent Director of the Division...
Dec 20, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is now accepting abstracts for APHA’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of...
Dec 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Vital Signs report showing that more than 119,000 people suffered from bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus (staph) infections in the United States in 2017 – and nearly 20,000 died. The new data reflect rates for all Staphylococcus aureus infections: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2019 Minority AIDS Initiative – Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High-Risk for HIV/AIDS (Short Title: MAI – High Risk Populations) grants. The purpose of this program is to increase...
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is soliciting applications that support treatment for, and prevention of, opioid use disorder in rural areas. USDA may award up to 30 special consideration points for Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) program applications for projects that provide opioid treatment services in 220 […]
Fighting the opioid crisis and other substance use disorders is a national priority at the highest levels of the Administration and in communities across the country. The Federal Government has mobilized to take action to address these threats. As part of the ongoing and evolving national dialogue about these issues, the Office of the Assistant […]
Today, February 14, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a new national analysis in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) finding that drug use more than doubled among heterosexuals with syphilis from 2013-2017. Additionally, there is a supplement to the STD surveillance report addressing this data. The MMWR article analyzed self-reported […]
The opioid overdose epidemic in America continues to evolve and become more complex. States, territories, and localities need access to complete and timely data on nonfatal and fatal drug overdoses to understand the scope and direction of the evolving overdose epidemic. Given the need for an interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and cohesive public health approach, the Centers […]
The PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation (COF) for the Advancement of Public Health seeks to support community-based public health programs. The Barclay-Giel Seed Grants program is named after the late Martha Barclay-Giel, a retired Captain of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Captain Barclay-Giel dedicated her life’s worth to advancing the health of […]
On December 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Carolyn Wester, MD, MPH as the permanent Director of the Division of Viral Hepatitis (DVH). Dr. Wester, who has been the Medical Director for HIV, STDs, and Viral Hepatitis at the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) since 2008, will begin serving on January 22, 2019. The below […]
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is now accepting abstracts for APHA’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of the meeting is Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health. Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts on the theme and current and emerging public health issues. Abstracts are due February 19-23, depending on […]
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