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By Bob Lamkin. Environmental Health Manager, Brazos County Health District (TX) Brazos County, Texas, is home to Texas A&M...
Jul 25, 2019 | NacchoVoice
The CHOICES Project at the Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public...
Jul 24, 2019 | NacchoVoice
By Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO On July 9–11, over 1,300 local public health professionals gathered in Orlando for...
Jul 16, 2019 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO’s Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) program is pleased to recognize or re-recognize 14 local and regional health agencies for...
Jul 02, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO Let me preface this conversation by mentioning how hard it was to gather...
Jun 28, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Appropriations Bill Includes Strong Spending Levels for Many Local Health Department Priorities NACCHO thanks the House of...
Jun 22, 2019 | NacchoVoice
By Erin Vinoski Thomas, MPH, CHES, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO; and Chloe Vercruysse, MBA This post originally ran in NACCHO...
Jun 14, 2019 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public...
Jun 06, 2019 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO recently announced Minneapolis Environmental Health as the recipient of the 2019 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award...
Jun 03, 2019 | NacchoVoice
By Bob Lamkin. Environmental Health Manager, Brazos County Health District (TX) Brazos County, Texas, is home to Texas A&M University and a population of nearly 230,000. We have hot temperatures, high humidity and lots of mosquitoes. Our Health District is small and our resources for a vector program have been limited. However, we knew we […]
The CHOICES Project at the Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will be accepting applications beginning on August 1 for state and local health agencies to apply to participate in the CHOICES Learning Collaborative Partnership (LCP). Over the past four years, the CHOICES team […]
By Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO On July 9–11, over 1,300 local public health professionals gathered in Orlando for the 2019 NACCHO Annual Conference. Attendees participated in dozens of insightful sharing sessions, learned from leading experts, and discovered solutions to improve local public health in their communities. This year’s theme, “Improving the Nation’s Health...
NACCHO’s Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) program is pleased to recognize or re-recognize 14 local and regional health agencies for their ability to plan for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies. Four agencies from Texas, Michigan, Florida, and Tennessee have earned PPHR recognition for the first time, while ten agencies from Arizona, Florida, […]
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO Let me preface this conversation by mentioning how hard it was to gather these reflections. It’s not that this past year has been so difficult—quite the contrary because it has been so rewarding, and busy— but because the end of the year is bittersweet. In many ways, the […]
Appropriations Bill Includes Strong Spending Levels for Many Local Health Department Priorities NACCHO thanks the House of Representatives for passing a FY2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) funding bill that includes strong spending levels for many local health department priorities. They include a total of $8.3 billion for the Centers […]
By Erin Vinoski Thomas, MPH, CHES, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO; and Chloe Vercruysse, MBA This post originally ran in NACCHO Essential Elements blog. People experiencing homelessness lack sustainable access to housing and instead turn to emergency shelters, transitional housing, or places not meant for overnight residence. In the Unites States on a single night […]
NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public health. This interview features Emily Brown, MPH, CPH, Health Director for the Rio Grande County Public Health in Colorado. Below she highlights the importance of rural health being represented in all levels of government and shares how […]
NACCHO recently announced Minneapolis Environmental Health as the recipient of the 2019 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the Local Level. This award is given annually to local environmental health jurisdictions that demonstrate unsurpassed achievement in providing outstanding food protection services to their communities. The jury reviewing...
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