The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Social media was both an incubator for misinformation that local health officials have had to combat as well as a strategic tool that...
Dec 29, 2022 | Charlotte Ciampa
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Jan 13, 2022 | Anu Varma
Ian Goldstein sits down with Alvina Chu, Epidemiology Program Manager for the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, to take a...
Jul 08, 2021 | Ian Goldstein
Sep 09, 2020 | Emily D'Angelo
Summer may be coming to an end, but mosquito and tick season continues until the first frost hits and temperatures are consistently...
Sep 08, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
MC Bugg Z, known for insect-inspired music videos Tick Check 1-2 and Zika 101, released a new video just in time for the start of...
Jul 03, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Sandra L. Fisher-Grainger, MPH, Director, Hernando County Mosquito Control With the introduction of Zika to the United States in...
Jun 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Mosquito control has historically been and remains an important and basic public health function. Given the emergence of viruses such...
May 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Applications are now open for NACCHO’s 2019 Vector Control Technical Assistance Program. The goal of the program is to help...
Feb 12, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Social media was both an incubator for misinformation that local health officials have had to combat as well as a strategic tool that health departments used to inform the behavioral health of the public during the pandemic.
Ian Goldstein sits down with Alvina Chu, Epidemiology Program Manager for the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, to take a look back at the Zika virus response in 2016.
Summer may be coming to an end, but mosquito and tick season continues until the first frost hits and temperatures are consistently under 50 degrees Fahrenheit. With warming temperatures across the country and vector-borne diseases on the rise, local health departments and other local vector control organizations have […]
MC Bugg Z, known for insect-inspired music videos Tick Check 1-2 and Zika 101, released a new video just in time for the start of summer: West Nile Story. The part-time rapper, also known as Andy Lima, works as an insect biologist with the Fairfax County Health Department (VA). His new video is full of important information about mosquito bites and the diseases […]
By Sandra L. Fisher-Grainger, MPH, Director, Hernando County Mosquito Control With the introduction of Zika to the United States in 2016 in both people and local mosquitoes, vector-borne diseases have become more of a concern, especially when coupled with the possibility of known diseases spreading into new areas and the arrival of new diseases. Surveillance is […]
Mosquito control has historically been and remains an important and basic public health function. Given the emergence of viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika in the United States and U.S. territories, the second edition of the Public Health Confronts the Mosquito report from ASTHO provides guidance to assist local, state, and territorial mosquito control programs in […]
Applications are now open for NACCHO’s 2019 Vector Control Technical Assistance Program. The goal of the program is to help local health departments improve mosquito surveillance and control to prevent vector-borne diseases like Zika and the West Nile Virus. In the wake of the Zika virus outbreak, 84% of local mosquito control jurisdictions were ranked as “Needs […]
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