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NACCHO Staff Report: NIH Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) 10th...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences at NIH created an initiative called Modeling of Infectious Disease Agent Study...
Oct 04, 2013 | Frances Bevington
NACCHO Staff Report: Indiana State Level Exercise Tests Preparedness and Response...
Andrew Roszak served as a subject matter expert and evaluator at the State of Indiana's State Level Exercise (SLE) at Muscatatuck...
Oct 03, 2013 | Andy Roszak
NACCHO Staff Mark National Preparedness Month 2013
To mark National Preparedness Month 2013, members of NACCHO’s staff organized and participated in two activities to enhance their...
Oct 01, 2013 | Admin
MERS-CoV: Preparing Locally for a Global Concern
By Leah Moriarty, Public Health Preparedness Intern, NACCHO The Johnson County (KS) Department of Health and Environment, along with...
Aug 05, 2013 | NacchoVoice
New Collaboration Seeks to Reduce Health Disparities in People with Intellectual...
By Melissa Allen, ACHIEVA (The Arc of Greater Pittsburgh), and Sarah Yates, NACCHO NACCHO and The Arc of the United States are...
Jun 03, 2013 | NacchoVoice
The Profile Study at Work
By Carolyn Leep, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, NACCHO Ever wonder what NACCHO does with data from that Profile survey...
May 01, 2013 | NacchoVoice
Four Tips for Building Partnerships before Disaster Strikes
By Sara Rubin, MPH, MA, Program Analyst, NACCHO Hurricane Sandy left more than 100 dead and millions without power across much of the...
Apr 23, 2013 | NacchoVoice
A Vision for Implementing Health Reform in Oregon
This post was originally published on the Public Health Newswire as part of a series on the impact of the Affordable Care Act written...
Apr 10, 2013 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO Staff Report: NIH Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) 10th Anniversary SymposiumThe National Institute of General Medical Sciences at NIH created an initiative called Modeling of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) in 2004. This workshop highlighted the accomplishments of MIDAS over the past 10 years and presented a variety of computational modeling projects by academic institutions associated MIDAS. Oct 04, 2013 | Frances Bevington |
NACCHO Staff Report: Indiana State Level Exercise Tests Preparedness and Response CapabilitiesAndrew Roszak served as a subject matter expert and evaluator at the State of Indiana's State Level Exercise (SLE) at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Indiana. This year's exercise simulated severe weather sweeping through a town in Indiana, including an EF3 tornado, damaging winds, and heavy rainfall that produced localized flooding. Oct 03, 2013 | Andy Roszak |
NACCHO Staff Mark National Preparedness Month 2013To mark National Preparedness Month 2013, members of NACCHO’s staff organized and participated in two activities to enhance their understanding of preparedness. Staff conducted the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) zombie preparedness simulation and a screening and discussion of the plausibility of the response in the film, Contagion. Oct 01, 2013 | Admin |
MERS-CoV: Preparing Locally for a Global ConcernBy Leah Moriarty, Public Health Preparedness Intern, NACCHO The Johnson County (KS) Department of Health and Environment, along with other local health departments (LHDs), is spreading the word about a virus with a 50 percent case fatality ratio, but which has not yet reached the United States. The virus, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), […] Aug 05, 2013 | NacchoVoice |
New Collaboration Seeks to Reduce Health Disparities in People with Intellectual DisabilitiesBy Melissa Allen, ACHIEVA (The Arc of Greater Pittsburgh), and Sarah Yates, NACCHO NACCHO and The Arc of the United States are partnering to reduce health disparities for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). The Arc recently launched its new HealthMeet® project, which is funded through a three-year, $1 million cooperative agreement with the Centers for […] Jun 03, 2013 | NacchoVoice |
The Profile Study at WorkBy Carolyn Leep, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, NACCHO Ever wonder what NACCHO does with data from that Profile survey that took you so long to complete? From January through March, approximately 2,000 local health departments (LHDs) completed the National Profile of Local Health Departments (Profile) survey. Profile is a comprehensive (read “long”) survey […] May 01, 2013 | NacchoVoice |
Four Tips for Building Partnerships before Disaster StrikesBy Sara Rubin, MPH, MA, Program Analyst, NACCHO Hurricane Sandy left more than 100 dead and millions without power across much of the Northeast, and as far west as Michigan, last October. While many examples have come before it, Hurricane Sandy is the latest catastrophe to prove that disasters know no borders and present new […] Apr 23, 2013 | NacchoVoice |
A Vision for Implementing Health Reform in OregonThis post was originally published on the Public Health Newswire as part of a series on the impact of the Affordable Care Act written by contributing authors with varying public health perspectives. This piece is from Lillian Shirley, MPA, MPH, Director of the Multnomah County Health Department and NACCHO’s immediate past president. She shares how […] Apr 10, 2013 | NacchoVoice |
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