The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
On Tuesday, September 12, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) hosted a webinar to discuss Data...
Sep 13, 2023 | Irene Halferty
We asked our HAI/AR pilot project sites to reflect on their experiences and lessons learned since joining our project. Here is what...
Aug 14, 2023
Apply today! NACCHO is offering a scholarship opportunity for local health department staff obtaining certification in infection...
Jan 09, 2023 | Jaclyn Abramson
HAIs and AMR are a threat to patients, and subsequently, public health safety. Rural, Frontier, and Small LHDs face distinct barriers...
Dec 01, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
Nov 21, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
HAI/AR Rural, Frontier, and Small LHDs Blog 3 of 6 Series
Oct 06, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson, Candice Young
This video series was developed from interviews with BLOC COVID funded sites to highlight the LHD’s lessons learned, best practices,...
Jul 06, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson, Candice Young
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the public’s health, and local health departments (LHDs) have become increasingly...
Nov 18, 2019 | Christina Baum
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI)...
Nov 06, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
On Tuesday, September 12, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) hosted a webinar to discuss Data Utilization for Local Health Departments (LHDs) with Lauren Wattenmaker, team lead for Policy and Operations at NHSN.
We asked our HAI/AR pilot project sites to reflect on their experiences and lessons learned since joining our project. Here is what one of our sites, Cass County, shared with us.
Apply today! NACCHO is offering a scholarship opportunity for local health department staff obtaining certification in infection control (CIC) or a-IPC (Associate – Infection Prevention and Control) entry-level certification. The deadline to submit an application is the end of the day on Friday, January 27.
HAIs and AMR are a threat to patients, and subsequently, public health safety. Rural, Frontier, and Small LHDs face distinct barriers and can provide leadership in surveillance, outbreak investigations, and prevention by collaborating with healthcare and community partners.
This video series was developed from interviews with BLOC COVID funded sites to highlight the LHD’s lessons learned, best practices, tools developed, and provide associated resources to prevent and respond to COVID-19 in various high-risk settings for others to consider in their capacity building efforts.
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the public’s health, and local health departments (LHDs) have become increasingly involved to ensure their communities are prepared.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Progress Report, a snapshot of how each state and the country are doing in eliminating HAIs, showing significant progress nationally in reducing several hospital-acquired infections and highlighting that prevention of these infections is possible. Using data from CDC’s...
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NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
Feb 12, 2024 | Tori Decea
The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...
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The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated Infections, and Antimicrobial Resistance (BLOC COVID-19+)...
Aug 14, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross
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