The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the second installment of a draft guidance document designed to support...
Mar 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The theme for this year’s World Water Day, recognized annually on March 22, is “Leaving no one behind.” Billions of people around the...
Mar 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced the communities identified for the upcoming exposure...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Note: This is the sixth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Jan 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In late spring/early summer of 2018, NACCHO hosted a four-part webinar series to help local health departments build capacity to...
Jan 24, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials...
Jan 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
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
Thanks to the support and generosity of sponsors, the Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment (SOPHIA) is able to offer a...
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical...
Nov 14, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the second installment of a draft guidance document designed to support compliance with the Intentional Adulteration (IA) Rule under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The FSMA final rule on intentional adulteration is designed to address hazards that may be intentionally introduced to foods, including by […]
The theme for this year’s World Water Day, recognized annually on March 22, is “Leaving no one behind.” Billions of people around the world already live without access to safe water, and in emergencies, those numbers increase exponentially. Across the United States, aging water infrastructure, severe weather, and accidents cause an estimated 240,000 water main […]
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced the communities identified for the upcoming exposure assessments that will examine human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). As part of the National Defense Authorization Act, CDC/ATSDR was asked to conduct exposure assessments in communities near current or former military installations. These...
Note: This is the sixth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. January 2019 Dear Greener Guidance, What exactly are PFAS, and what should we be doing as a local health department to keep our community safe from any health risks associated with PFAS? – PFAS Patrol Dear […]
In late spring/early summer of 2018, NACCHO hosted a four-part webinar series to help local health departments build capacity to engage in public health communication. The webinar topics were selected based on a two-part needs assessment that NACCHO conducted to determine local health departments’ communications capacity, capabilities, and skills gaps. The presentation slides from those...
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), offered a new funding opportunity in fall 2018 to local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention...
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 […]
Thanks to the support and generosity of sponsors, the Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment (SOPHIA) is able to offer a limited number of travel and registration scholarships to participants who need support to attend the 2019 Health Impact Assessment Practitioner Workshop in April. Additionally, this year the Association of State and Territorial Health […]
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series covering the Capabilities for Public Health Agency Involvement in Land Use and Transportation Decision Making to Increase Active Transportation Opportunity from the UMass Worcester Prevention Research...
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