The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Observed each April, STD Awareness Month serves to raise awareness about what sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STDs/STIs)...
Apr 03, 2019 | Rebekah Horowitz
As part of NACCHO’s efforts to support Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS), which have included participation in the preparations...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) released the Vector Control Tools & Resources Toolkit, which provides tools...
Mar 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Young children often are hardest hit by the consequences of poor environmental public health systems. For their size, they breathe...
During the State of the Union Address last month, the Administration announced a bold new initiative, “Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan...
Mar 18, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) recently issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement for a Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant...
Mar 11, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
In response to the 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, NACCHO hosted two Vector Surveillance and Control Workshops in partnership...
Feb 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have...
Nov 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
This press release was originally posted on the Sexual Health Youth Advocacy Coalition website. Advocates call widespread lack of...
Oct 15, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Observed each April, STD Awareness Month serves to raise awareness about what sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STDs/STIs) are, how they impact our lives, and why it’s important to prevent, test for, and treat them. As such, NACCHO leverages this observance annually to bring attention to STDs/STIs and mobilize health departments to strengthen their prevention, testing, and treatment...
As part of NACCHO’s efforts to support Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS), which have included participation in the preparations for a national DIS certification program and development of new training courses for DIS and DIS supervisors, we provide scholarships for local health department (LHD) DIS to attend the National Coalition of STD Director’s (NCSD’s) annual STD […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) released the Vector Control Tools & Resources Toolkit, which provides tools and resources for program improvement activities that are in line with the 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services form the framework used to evaluate the...
Young children often are hardest hit by the consequences of poor environmental public health systems. For their size, they breathe more air and eat more food than adults, making them particularly vulnerable to environmental public health hazards. And even low levels of toxic exposures can affect children’s physical and mental development. While everyone suffers the […]
During the State of the Union Address last month, the Administration announced a bold new initiative, “Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America.” If funds are appropriated by Congress, this is a 10-year initiative beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2020 to achieve the important goal of reducing new HIV infections to less than 3,000 […]
The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) recently issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement for a Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant Program (Hepatitis B Program). Through this announcement, OMH seeks to develop hepatitis B model programs that will end transmission of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and reduce morbidity and mortality attributable to ongoing HBV infection. This OMH program […]
In response to the 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, NACCHO hosted two Vector Surveillance and Control Workshops in partnership with the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The goal of the workshops was to increase the capacity of low-resource jurisdictions affected by the 2017 hurricanes to […]
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and refocus our efforts on what still needs to be done to end the epidemic. Local health departments are in the forefront of these efforts, working on initiatives to […]
This press release was originally posted on the Sexual Health Youth Advocacy Coalition website. Advocates call widespread lack of sexual health care, despite high rates of STIs and sexual abuse, an ethical and public health failure New York, NY (October 15, 2018) — In October 2017, leading organizations working on juvenile justice, adolescent sexual health policy, […]
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