The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Guided by a Task Force and with input from more than 1,300 stakeholders, the Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI) and...
Mar 04, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued new recommendations for hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening. The previous...
According to a recent poll by Kaiser Family Foundation, few Americans are aware of how common STIs are among adults. Results found...
Feb 27, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Fenway Institute released a new report that outlines considerations for working with people who are incarcerated and identify as...
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
Vaccinate Your Family recently released its fourth annual State of the ImmUnion (SOTI) report. The 2020 report examines how strong the...
Feb 19, 2020 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The National Center for Health in Public Housing is hosting a learning collaborative webinar series on “Exploring Cultural...
Clinical Infectious Diseases published an article on a review of measles outbreak cost estimates from the U.S. in the post-elimination...
Feb 18, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Nurses are critical members of the immunization team and have a powerful role to play in getting HPV vaccination done. The National...
Guided by a Task Force and with input from more than 1,300 stakeholders, the Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI) and the de Beaumont Foundation released the proposed 10 Essential Public Health Services (EPHS) framework for public review and comment. Using this survey link, you can submit your comments on as many Essential Services as […]
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued new recommendations for hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening. The previous recommendations, which called for one-time screening of all adults born between 1945 and 1965, have been expanded to include all adults ages 18 to 79 years old. The recommendations also call for screening of all pregnant […]
According to a recent poll by Kaiser Family Foundation, few Americans are aware of how common STIs are among adults. Results found about one-third are aware that STIs have become more common over the last 10 years, and 13 percent know half of the population will get an STI in their lifetime. View the full […]
The Fenway Institute released a new report that outlines considerations for working with people who are incarcerated and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI), or gender non-conforming. The report outlines recommendations on a range of topics with an emphasis on cultural competency while working with LGBTI populations. One component of the report is […]
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...
Vaccinate Your Family recently released its fourth annual State of the ImmUnion (SOTI) report. The 2020 report examines how strong the nation’s defenses truly are against vaccine-preventable diseases and what public health advocates and legislators can do to make the country stronger and more resilient in the face of disease outbreaks and other emerging health threats. […]
The National Center for Health in Public Housing is hosting a learning collaborative webinar series on “Exploring Cultural Competence and Humility in the Care of HIV Patients.” This training is designed to help move organizations past cultural stereotypes and biases (e.g., based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity) to offer client-centered services with cultural humility....
Clinical Infectious Diseases published an article on a review of measles outbreak cost estimates from the U.S. in the post-elimination era (2004-2017). The abstract is included below. Despite the elimination of measles in the U.S. in the year 2000, cases continue to occur with measles outbreaks having occurred in various jurisdictions in the U.S. in 2018 […]
Nurses are critical members of the immunization team and have a powerful role to play in getting HPV vaccination done. The National HPV Vaccination Roundtable created the HPV Prevention: Nurses Get it Done! toolkit as an educational resource for nurses at all practice levels to empower confident initiation and completion of the HPV vaccination series. […]
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