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The Essential Elements of Local Public Health

The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Vector Control

By Local Health, For Local Health: How NACCHO Supports Vector Control Programs in 2021

Preliminary results from the 2020 National Vector Assessment now available!

Jun 22, 2021 | Danielle Chatelain

  • Vector Control

Greener Guidance: Outreach to Renters

Note: Greener Guidance is NACCHO’s environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here....

Dec 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Success Story

Greener Guidance: Cost-Saving Conservation Programs

Have any public health departments developed programs to assist regulated facilities (such as restaurants, retail food...

Sep 26, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Hazards & Health Effects
  • Water Quality

Greener Guidance: Putrescible Waste in Public Areas

Note: This is the tenth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here....

May 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Hazards & Health Effects
  • Water Quality

Greener Guidance: On-site Sewage Treatment

Note: This is the ninth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here....

Apr 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Water Quality

Greener Guidance: Groundwater Regulations

Note: This is the eighth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns...

Mar 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Tools & Resources
  • Emergency Response
  • Extreme Weather

Greener Guidance: Environmental Health Emergency Preparedness

Note: This is the seventh edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns...

Feb 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Water Quality

Greener Guidance: PFAS

Note: This is the sixth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here....

Jan 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Funding Opportunity
  • Financing & Economics

Greener Guidance: Innovative Funding

Note: This is the fifth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here....

Dec 17, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

  • National Environmental Public Health Tracking
  • Water Quality

Greener Guidance: Green Burials

Note: This is the fourth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns...

Nov 08, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

Partner Articles

MAPP Roadmap
  • Funding Opportunity
  • Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
  • Opportunity

RFP: NACCHO Seeking a Graphic Designer for New MAPP 2.0...

NACCHO is seeking a qualified consultant to provide graphic design for the new...

Nov 07, 2022 | Andrea Grenadier

RFP: NACCHO Seeking a Graphic Designer for New MAPP 2.0...

  • Tools & Resources
  • Climate Change
  • Training

Join us for a Climate for Health Ambassadors Training at...

We are partnering with Climate for Health and ecoAmerica to offer an...

Jul 11, 2022 | Anu Varma

Join us for a Climate for Health Ambassadors Training at...

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  • COVID-19
  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health
  • ID Featured

New Resource: BLOC COVID Video Series

This video series was developed from interviews with BLOC COVID funded sites to...

Jul 06, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson, Candice Young

New Resource: BLOC COVID Video Series

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  • Webinar
  • Community Health
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control
  • Infectious Disease

World Hand Hygiene Day 2022

This year’s theme for World Hand Hygiene Day on May 5 is focused on recognizing...

May 04, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson

World Hand Hygiene Day 2022

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Hazards & Health Effects

Multi-faceted EPA Research Addressing Threats to Public...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) researchers are working to...

Sep 27, 2021 | Guest Author

Multi-faceted EPA Research Addressing Threats to Public...

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Webinar
  • Water Quality

Responding to Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in...

On August 12, 2021, NACCHO and AAAS’s EPI Center hosted a webinar on PFAS...

Aug 27, 2021 | Guest Author

Responding to Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in...

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Food Safety & Inspection
  • Opportunity

NEHA-FDA RFFM Mentorship Program in partnership with the...

Applications for the program are now open from September 9 through November 15,...

Aug 03, 2021 | Guest Author

NEHA-FDA RFFM Mentorship Program in partnership with the...

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Accreditation & Quality Improvement
  • Opportunity
  • Performance Improvement

Improving Social Determinants of Health – Getting...

NACCHO is pleased to announced the release of three Request for Proposals to...

Feb 17, 2021 | Andrea Grenadier

Improving Social Determinants of Health – Getting...

Ci Climate Change
  • Climate Change
  • Health Equity & Social Justice
  • Policy

NACCHO Joins Public Health Partners in Calling on the...

NACCHO joins leading public health organizations in signing a declaration...

Jan 27, 2021 | Anu Varma

NACCHO Joins Public Health Partners in Calling on the...

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  • COVID-19
  • Tools & Resources
  • Water Quality

Purdue University’s New Water Systems Course Designed to...

Purdue is partnering with NACCHO to offer this online course at a discount for...

Dec 04, 2020 | Emily D'Angelo

Purdue University’s New Water Systems Course Designed to...

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  • Food Safety & Inspection
  • Opportunity

NACCHO and CFP Seeks New Recruits for the 2020-2022 Food...

NACCHO and CFP are seeking 10-15 state, local, tribal, and territorial health...

Oct 13, 2020 | Anu Varma

NACCHO and CFP Seeks New Recruits for the 2020-2022 Food...

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  • Press Release
  • Climate Change
  • Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health

NACCHO Joins Public Health Partners to Recognize...

NACCHO partners with Children’s Environmental Health Network for CEH Day 2020.

Sep 28, 2020 | Guest Author

NACCHO Joins Public Health Partners to Recognize...

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