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This Emergency Will Be Tweeted: What Local Health Departments Need to Know About...
With nearly three out of four American adults using social networking sites, first-hand reports on social media during unfolding...
Oct 17, 2013 | Frances Bevington
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Project...
Staff: Scott Fisher and Jack Herrmann ASPR approved two additional NACCHO reports on administrative preparedness for distribution. The...
Oct 09, 2013 | Admin
National Academies of Science Building Resilience to Disasters Workshop
Date: Sept. 5, 2013 Staff Representative: Scott Fisher and Naomi Rennard Member Representative: N/A Highlights: The National Academies...
Oct 09, 2013 | Admin
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
NACCHO is One of Top Five Information Sources for Local Health Departments on Twitter
Researchers from Brown School of Social Work and Washington University in St. Louis presented findings that provided insights into the...
Sep 26, 2013 | Frances Bevington
Using Field Research To Improve Disaster Response
In 2013, NACCHO awarded a Competitive Capacity Building Award to the Marin Medical Reserve Corps Foundation to explore best practices...
Sep 17, 2013 | Alyson Jordan
Initial 2013 Profile Study Shows Slow Economic Rebound at Local Health Departments
By Sarah Newman, MPH, Research and Evaluation Analyst, NACCHO NACCHO periodically surveys a representative sample of America’s 2,800...
Sep 11, 2013 | NacchoVoice
Integrating Extreme Weather Events into Preparedness Planning
Authors: Resham Patel, MPH, Senior Program Analyst and Stacy Hosler, MSPH, Program Analyst; Public Health Preparedness, NACCHO In 2011...
Sep 08, 2013 | Resham Patel
Military Radiobiology Research in the 21st Century: Threats, Triage, and Treatment
Date: August 26—28, 2013 Staff Representative: Lisa Brown Member Representative: N/A Highlights: A range of speakers from Department...
Sep 05, 2013 | Frances Bevington
This Emergency Will Be Tweeted: What Local Health Departments Need to Know About Social MediaWith nearly three out of four American adults using social networking sites, first-hand reports on social media during unfolding situations present many opportunities for those in the fields of local public health and emergency response. However, local health departments have a long way to go with adoption of social media, with only 8 percent using Twitter and 24 percent using Facebook. Oct 17, 2013 | Frances Bevington |
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Project September ReportStaff: Scott Fisher and Jack Herrmann ASPR approved two additional NACCHO reports on administrative preparedness for distribution. The first, Administrative Preparedness and the Public Health Workforce: Suggested Strategies for Health Departments, identifies factors that affect staffing during emergency responses and offers strategies and a review checklist for health departments to consider when... Oct 09, 2013 | Admin |
National Academies of Science Building Resilience to Disasters WorkshopDate: Sept. 5, 2013 Staff Representative: Scott Fisher and Naomi Rennard Member Representative: N/A Highlights: The National Academies of Sciences hosted a dynamic workshop to feature the publication of a recent National Research Council report, Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative. The report details the strong community of stakeholders eager to advance the efforts of building resilience... Oct 09, 2013 | Admin |
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 |
NACCHO is One of Top Five Information Sources for Local Health Departments on TwitterResearchers from Brown School of Social Work and Washington University in St. Louis presented findings that provided insights into the network of local health departments (LHDs) and their information sources on Twitter at the 2013 National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media in Atlanta, Georgia. The research identified NACCHO as one of the professional […] Sep 26, 2013 | Frances Bevington |
Using Field Research To Improve Disaster ResponseIn 2013, NACCHO awarded a Competitive Capacity Building Award to the Marin Medical Reserve Corps Foundation to explore best practices in MMRC/CERT and MMRC/Hospital collaboration in Marin County, California. This article describes how we used modified field research to examine the contribution citizen first responders make immediately following a disaster and before they are officially deployed... Sep 17, 2013 | Alyson Jordan |
Initial 2013 Profile Study Shows Slow Economic Rebound at Local Health DepartmentsBy Sarah Newman, MPH, Research and Evaluation Analyst, NACCHO NACCHO periodically surveys a representative sample of America’s 2,800 local health departments (LHDs) to measure the impact of the economic recession on LHDs. This year, we included questions regarding budget cuts, job losses, and program reductions as a part of the 2013 National Profile of Local […] Sep 11, 2013 | NacchoVoice |
Integrating Extreme Weather Events into Preparedness PlanningAuthors: Resham Patel, MPH, Senior Program Analyst and Stacy Hosler, MSPH, Program Analyst; Public Health Preparedness, NACCHO In 2011 and 2012, the United States experienced 25 extreme weather events—storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, and wildfires—that each caused at least $1 billion in damages.[1] These events resulted in a total price tag of over $174 billion […] Sep 08, 2013 | Resham Patel |
Military Radiobiology Research in the 21st Century: Threats, Triage, and TreatmentDate: August 26—28, 2013 Staff Representative: Lisa Brown Member Representative: N/A Highlights: A range of speakers from Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, non-DoD federal agencies, scientific committees, and universities meet at Walter Reed National Medical Military Center. Discussion over the three days focused on radiological threats, how radiobiology research could affect planning for... Sep 05, 2013 | Frances Bevington |
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