DASH Releases Healthy Students, Promising Futures Toolkit

The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) released the Healthy Students,...

Jan 20, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Assessing the Changing Landscape of Sexual Health Clinical Service After the...

    Federal health reform has the potential to impact many public health services, especially sexual health clinics. An article in...

    Nov 05, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • New Story from Champaign-Urbana Health District Added to NACCHO’s PrEP Story Bank

    To support local health departments as they decide what they can or should be doing to implement Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for...

    Oct 30, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • NASTAD Releases White Paper on Drug User Health and ACA Opportunities

    The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has released a white paper titled “Modernizing Public...

    Oct 26, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • NACCHO Interviews a Local Health Department Disease Intervention Specialist to...

    October 2, 2015 is National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day, a day that is celebrated annually on the first...

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and...

    NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources,...

    Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

  • NACCHO Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Ryan White CARE Act

    This past Tuesday, August 18, marked the 25th anniversary of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act. It was...

    Aug 21, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss

  • Three New Reports Offer Recommendations for Updating the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program

    The O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center has released series of three policy...

    Jul 13, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

  • DASH Releases Healthy Students, Promising Futures Toolkit

    The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) released the Healthy Students, Promising Futures toolkit with tools and resources developed for healthcare providers, educational agencies, and state and community leaders. These materials focus on five high impact opportunities and were designed to increase access to health insurance to...

    Jan 20, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

    Assessing the Changing Landscape of Sexual Health Clinical Service After the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

    Federal health reform has the potential to impact many public health services, especially sexual health clinics. An article in Sexually Transmitted Disease, the journal of American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, explores the changing landscape of sexual health clinical services after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. To assess the impact of such reform within the […]

    Nov 05, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    New Story from Champaign-Urbana Health District Added to NACCHO’s PrEP Story Bank

    To support local health departments as they decide what they can or should be doing to implement Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in their communities, NACCHO created the PrEP Story Bank to share examples of what local health departments are doing. NACCHO spoke to Candi Crause, Director of Infectious Disease Prevention and Management, and Jeffrey Kemp Rinderle, […]

    Oct 30, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    NASTAD Releases White Paper on Drug User Health and ACA Opportunities

    The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has released a white paper titled “Modernizing Public Health to Meet the Needs of People Who Use Drugs: Affordable Care Act Opportunities.” The paper was a collaboration with the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law and assesses new financing and delivery models for […]

    Oct 26, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    NACCHO Interviews a Local Health Department Disease Intervention Specialist to Celebrate DIS Recognition Day

    October 2, 2015 is National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day, a day that is celebrated annually on the first Friday in October to recognize this critical part of the public health workforce. The National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) led the development of DIS Recognition Day four years ago to celebrate and honor the often […]

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and Promising Practices

    NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources, administrative practices, or tools that demonstrate exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation of both the...

    Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

    NACCHO Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Ryan White CARE Act

    This past Tuesday, August 18, marked the 25th anniversary of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act. It was a day to reflect on the passion that inspired the legislation, purpose that continues to drive the program, and excellence in health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS. It was also a day for […]

    Aug 21, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss

    Three New Reports Offer Recommendations for Updating the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program

    The O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center has released series of three policy briefs issuing recommendations for ensuring that the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is updated to be maximally effective in a changing healthcare environment. Leading HIV/AIDS experts authored the briefs to help HIV community stakeholders conceptualize structural...

    Jul 13, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

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