The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
In alignment with this strategy, NACCHO partners with CDC to support local health departments (LHDs) in conducting activities within...
May 10, 2022 | Jordan Royster and Kellie Hall
A new CDC report demonstrates significant increases in deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, cocaine, and...
Feb 18, 2021 | Julia Zigman
NACCHO Awards New Overdose Response Project Funding; Public Health Projects in Georgia, Missouri, New York, North and South Carolina,...
Jan 27, 2021 | Andrea Grenadier
Join NACCHO for a webinar that will explore how public health and hospital organizations are working together to reverse the cycle of...
Oct 22, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of...
Feb 18, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Much of the day-to-day work of opioid prevention and response falls to local health departments. To better understand this critical...
Aug 07, 2019 | Andrea Grenadier
On December 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Carolyn Wester, MD, MPH as the permanent Director of the Division...
Dec 20, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Providers wrote approximately 4.45 billion opioid prescriptions in 2016—with wide variation across states. In addition, an almost 1.8...
Sep 24, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Following the recent nerve agent poisonings in the United Kingdom, the emergency response community has requested information and...
Aug 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
In alignment with this strategy, NACCHO partners with CDC to support local health departments (LHDs) in conducting activities within each of the Overdose Prevention Strategies' priorities.
A new CDC report demonstrates significant increases in deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, cocaine, and psychostimulants in recent years.
NACCHO Awards New Overdose Response Project Funding; Public Health Projects in Georgia, Missouri, New York, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and West Virginia Receive Funding Ranging from $55,000 to $120,000
Join NACCHO for a webinar that will explore how public health and hospital organizations are working together to reverse the cycle of Substance Use Disorder (SUD).
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), NACCHO is interested in learning about, promoting, and supporting policies and practices that address mental health and substance use disorder within local health department (LHD) Maternal and Child Health (MCH) […]
Much of the day-to-day work of opioid prevention and response falls to local health departments. To better understand this critical role, NACCHO staff conducted a survey and are releasing a new report, “Local Health Department Approaches to Opioid Use Prevention and Response: An Environmental Scan.” The scan surveyed 198 local health departments in efforts to […]
On December 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Carolyn Wester, MD, MPH as the permanent Director of the Division of Viral Hepatitis (DVH). Dr. Wester, who has been the Medical Director for HIV, STDs, and Viral Hepatitis at the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) since 2008, will begin serving on January 22, 2019. The below […]
Providers wrote approximately 4.45 billion opioid prescriptions in 2016—with wide variation across states. In addition, an almost 1.8 million Americans, aged 12 or older, either abused or were dependent on prescription opioids in 2016. Improving the way opioids are prescribed through clinical practice guidelines, can ensure patients have access to safer, more effective pain treatment […]
Following the recent nerve agent poisonings in the United Kingdom, the emergency response community has requested information and advice to enhance preparedness. The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, and Department of Transportation’s National...
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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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