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
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Feb 19, 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
NACCHO is pleased to announce the eighth cohort for its Mentorship Program for the Retail Program Standards, made possible through a...
Feb 01, 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
By Ruby Perin, Healthy Homes Branch Supervisor, Linn County Public Health, and James Hodina, Manager, Environmental Public Health,...
Jan 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will...
Jan 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
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...
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily responsible for investigations of these outbreaks. Typically, investigations involve epidemiology, laboratory, and environmental health components. Health departments voluntarily report epidemiologic and laboratory data from their foodborne illness outbreak investigations to...
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail […]
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...
NACCHO is pleased to announce the eighth cohort for its Mentorship Program for the Retail Program Standards, made possible through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The peer mentorship program provides opportunities to learn, share experiences, and acquire tools and resources related to the FDA’s Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards...
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...
By Ruby Perin, Healthy Homes Branch Supervisor, Linn County Public Health, and James Hodina, Manager, Environmental Public Health, Linn County Public Health Editor’s Note: In honor of National Radon Action Month in January, we are featuring Linn County, Iowa’s radon test kit distribution program, which was recognized as a Promising Practice through NACCHO’s Model Practices […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will offer mini-grants, between $1,200 to $3,000 depending on number of applicants, to support state, tribal, local or territorial governmental food safety programs to learn more about the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) program. NEARS is a...
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NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
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