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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

  • National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) Annual Symposium

    Date: Sept. 22—24, 2013 Staff Representative: Frances Bevington, Sara Rubin, Alyson Jordan Member Representatives: Meredith...

    Oct 09, 2013 | Admin

  • 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

  • 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

  • Urban Farming: The New Design of Social Sustainability

    Aug 15, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

  • Injury and Violence Prevention, Social Determinants of Health

    Operation Safe Kids

    Aug 07, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

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    Hoarding

    My name is Christine Connolly and I am the Director of Health and Human Services for the Town of Arlington, MA. I have been with the...

    Aug 07, 2013 | Guest Author

  • 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

    • This Emergency Will Be Tweeted: What Local Health Departments Need to Know About Social Media

    With 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

    National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) Annual Symposium

    Date: Sept. 22—24, 2013 Staff Representative: Frances Bevington, Sara Rubin, Alyson Jordan Member Representatives: Meredith Li-Vollmer, Elizabeth Hart, Rita Obey, Jennifer Dunlay, Glen Barbour, Denise Bingham, Theresa Orecchia Highlights: NPHIC convened public health communicators from across the country for a two-day training event in Chicago. Sessions focused on the use of social media during...

    Oct 09, 2013 | Admin

    NACCHO Staff Report: Indiana State Level Exercise Tests Preparedness and Response Capabilities

    Andrew 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 2013

    To 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 Twitter

    Researchers 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

    Urban Farming: The New Design of Social Sustainability

    Aug 15, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Injury and Violence Prevention, Social Determinants of Health

    Operation Safe Kids

    Aug 07, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Healthy Living & Prevention

    Hoarding

    My name is Christine Connolly and I am the Director of Health and Human Services for the Town of Arlington, MA. I have been with the department for over twelve years and have a background in public health.

    Aug 07, 2013 | Guest Author

    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 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

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