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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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  • Hazards & Health Effects

MAHC Network Webinar: Considerations for Increased Risk Venues (May 2022)

May’s Model Aquatic Health Code webinar will highlight increased risk venues, such as spray pads, wading pools and...

May 10, 2022 | Muneera Hassan

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Webinar
  • Water Quality

MAHC Network Webinar (February 2022): Provisional Model Aquatic Health Code Updates

Join NACCHO and CDC on February 23, 2 PM ET online!

Feb 04, 2022 | Emily D'Angelo

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Webinar
  • Healthy Living & Prevention

MAHC Network Webinar: Preventing Unintentional Drownings

October MAHC Network Webinar: Preventing Unintentional Drownings

Oct 12, 2021 | Emily D'Angelo

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Recommendations
  • Research & Reports
  • Water Quality

Read Now in JPHMP: Aquatic Health Pilot Program Supports Pool Code Updates in Ohio & Kansas City

Read more about the lessons learned from both Cuyahoga County and Kansas City on how they plan to update their pool...

Jun 10, 2021 | Emily D'Angelo

MAHC Webinar Recording and Slides: Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Showcase - Ensuring Aquatic Health in Your Community (May 2021)

During this webinar, experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlighted a Morbidity and...

May 20, 2021

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Webinar
  • Healthy Living & Prevention

CDC’s MAHC Network Webinar: Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Showcase - Ensuring Aquatic Health in Your Community

CDC’s Healthy and Safe Swimming Week (HSSW) webinar.

May 11, 2021 | Emily D'Angelo

  • Tools & Resources
  • Hazards & Health Effects
  • Water Quality

Honoring Local Public Health on World Water Day

New resources on aquatic health and water, sanitation, and hygiene preparedness now available.

Mar 22, 2021 | Emily D'Angelo

MAHC Webinar: Results from Vote on the Code: A Review of Key Proposed Changes for the MAHC 4th Edition (February 2021)

During this webinar, representatives of the Council for the Model Aquatic Health Code (CMAHC) summarized proposed...

Feb 26, 2021

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  • Webinar

MAHC Network February 2021 Webinar - Results from Vote on the Code: A Review of Key Proposed Changes for the MAHC 4th Edition 

The webinar recording and slides are now available.

Feb 23, 2021 | Anu Varma

  • Webinar

Results from Vote on the Code: A Review of Key Proposed Changes for the MAHC 4th Edition

During this webinar, participants will hear about the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) revisions that resulted from the...

Feb 02, 2021 | Emily D'Angelo

Partner Articles

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  • 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
  • Infectious Disease
  • Community Health

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

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...

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  • 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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  • COVID-19
  • Tools & Resources
  • Climate Change
  • Hazards & Health Effects

Protecting Lung Health During Wildfires

The American Lung Association has developed a new fact sheet in Spanish to...

Jul 15, 2020

Protecting Lung Health During Wildfires

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