The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Although the United States is in the throes of an opioid crisis, methamphetamine and other stimulants are still some of the most...
Mar 13, 2020 | Andrea Grenadier
Higher Ground Harm Reduction, Reynolds Health Strategies, Harm Reduction Coalition, and Vital Strategies released two new fact sheets...
Mar 11, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAAETC) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center have created a...
Feb 19, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of...
Feb 18, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. In the 1980s, it was realized that human immunodeficiency...
Jan 28, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Now in its ninth year, the Fordham HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) is a training grant...
Jan 16, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO, representing the country’s nearly 3,000 local health departments sent a letter to Congress to help inform their oversight of...
Jan 14, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Applications are due by 11:59 pm T on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Please direct questions to: [email protected] NACCHO is...
Jan 08, 2020 | Andrea Grenadier
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled...
Oct 07, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Although the United States is in the throes of an opioid crisis, methamphetamine and other stimulants are still some of the most commonly used substances in communities across the country. Both opioid and methamphetamine use during pregnancy can lead to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and an increased risk of negative birth outcomes such as low […]
Higher Ground Harm Reduction, Reynolds Health Strategies, Harm Reduction Coalition, and Vital Strategies released two new fact sheets on harm reduction during the COVID-19 outbreak. The first fact sheet, Syringe Services and Harm Reduction Provider Operations During the COVID-19 Outbreak, is for syringe service and harm reduction providers and includes an overview of COVID-19 and […]
The MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAAETC) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center have created a six-part interactive webinar series which has been designed to introduce diverse strategies for success in ending the opioid epidemic. Participants will hear from legal, social, medical, and community intervention experts in a strategy-gathering information...
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), NACCHO is interested in learning about, promoting, and supporting policies and practices that address mental health and substance use disorder within local health department (LHD) Maternal and Child Health (MCH) […]
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. In the 1980s, it was realized that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could be transmitted via injection drug use. Today, infectious diseases related to opioid use disorder include HIV and hepatitis A, B, and C viruses, as well as bacterial, fungal, and other infections. To reduce […]
Now in its ninth year, the Fordham HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) is a training grant sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The RETI provides early career investigators in the social, behavioral, medical and public health fields with an opportunity to gain research ethics training. A major function […]
NACCHO, representing the country’s nearly 3,000 local health departments sent a letter to Congress to help inform their oversight of the opioid crisis. As noted in NACCHO’s 2019 report, Local Health Department Approaches to Opioid Use Prevention and Response: An Environmental Scan, local health departments across the country are engaged in a wide range of activities to […]
Applications are due by 11:59 pm T on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Please direct questions to: [email protected] NACCHO is pleased to offer a funding opportunity to support collaboration among public health, public safety, and other sectors implementing evidence-based opioid overdose prevention strategies in their community through the Public Health and Safety Teams (PHAST) framework. With...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Trends in Hepatitis C Infection by Opioid Use Disorder Status Among Pregnant Women at Delivery Hospitalization — United States, 2000–2015.
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