The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity from CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences is to increase the capability and...
Mar 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) announced a new funding opportunity to help communities build local capacity and...
Feb 21, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences released new data to the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, an...
Feb 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Geological Survey released a special issue of their environmental health newsletter in December 2018 focused on algal toxins....
Jan 28, 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
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials...
Jan 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A lab director with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Wayne Cascio, was in California during the Paradise wildfire,...
Dec 17, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Yesterday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a partnership with the CDC Foundation and Oxford University...
Dec 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Antimicrobial drugs like antibiotics transformed medical care, rendering once life-threatening infections easily treatable and...
Dec 05, 2018 | Erin Laird
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity from CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences is to increase the capability and capacity of state public health laboratories to conduct high-quality biomonitoring science and assess human exposure to environmental chemicals within their jurisdictions. Improved exposure assessment will enable states to reduce or eliminate exposure to certain...
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) announced a new funding opportunity to help communities build local capacity and advance evidence-based lead poisoning prevention efforts: 2019 Lead Poisoning Prevention Grants: Equipping Communities for Action through the National Lead Poisoning Prevention Network. NCHH invites communities to apply for a bundled award of coaching and support over...
CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences released new data to the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, an ongoing biomonitoring assessment of the U.S. population’s exposure to environmental chemicals. The Updated Tables, January, 2019 provides nationally-representative biomonitoring data from CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) that has...
The U.S. Geological Survey released a special issue of their environmental health newsletter in December 2018 focused on algal toxins. Algal toxins are found in a variety of water bodies across the United States, and exposure to them can have serious health effects. Learn more.
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 […]
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...
A lab director with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Wayne Cascio, was in California during the Paradise wildfire, and he wrote a blog post about how he and others used EPA’s Smoke Sense app during the fire. When Dr. Cascio was in Sacramento and San Francisco, he writes, Smoke Sense provided useful information […]
Yesterday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a partnership with the CDC Foundation and Oxford University Press published The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual. The manual serves as a definitive guide to investigating acute public health events on the ground and in real-time. Assembled and written by experts from CDC as well as […]
Antimicrobial drugs like antibiotics transformed medical care, rendering once life-threatening infections easily treatable and reducing the risk of infection associated with surgery and chemotherapy. Advances in agriculture soon followed as farmers began using antimicrobial drugs to treat and prevent infections in their flocks and herds. However, overuse of these important drugs in both human and...
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