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This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have...
Jan 10, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Grace McClain, Program Analyst, NACCHO This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements blog. Global climate change...
Jan 07, 2019 | NacchoVoice
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and is an effort to raise awareness on the continued threats posed by cyberattacks...
Oct 26, 2018
This post originally appeared on NACCHO’s Essential Elements of Local Public Health blog. On September 12-14, the Centers for...
Oct 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The final late-breaking session at the 2018 Preparedness Summit featured the leaders who facilitated the response and recovery of...
Jul 18, 2018
On April 26, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) hosted more than one-hundred representatives from...
May 30, 2018
The 2018 Preparedness Summit took place last month at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. As the first and longest running national...
May 16, 2018
This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements. Americans currently use about 100 gallons of water per day per person....
Mar 29, 2018 | NacchoVoice
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is the National Association of County and City Health Official’s (NACCHO) criteria-based...
Mar 19, 2018
This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail food protection. Each month, we are featuring the experiences, challenges, and successes of jurisdictions that have worked toward each of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory […]
By Grace McClain, Program Analyst, NACCHO This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements blog. Global climate change may seem like a public health threat of the future, but many communities in the United States are feeling the health impacts of climate change today. Both geological and medical sciences have linked climate change to extreme […]
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and is an effort to raise awareness on the continued threats posed by cyberattacks and the activities that are being pursued to protect against future cyberattacks. The Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kirstjen M. Nielsen, recently spoke about DHS’ efforts to protect against threats […]
This post originally appeared on NACCHO’s Essential Elements of Local Public Health blog. On September 12-14, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a pandemic influenza functional exercise in response to a fictional influenza pandemic with federal, state, local, and non-governmental partners. The National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)...
The final late-breaking session at the 2018 Preparedness Summit featured the leaders who facilitated the response and recovery of October’s mass casualty incident in Las Vegas, Nev. The Las Vegas shooting, carried out by a lone shooter, was unprecedented. The shooter unleashed more than 1,100 rounds (approximately 100 rounds per minute) from his window on […]
On April 26, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) hosted more than one-hundred representatives from local health agencies at a reception in Atlanta, Ga. in celebration of achieving Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) recognition. A total of 28 health agencies were honored for their readiness to face public health emergencies of […]
The 2018 Preparedness Summit took place last month at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. As the first and longest running national conference on public health preparedness, it drew a wide variety of professionals and experts with a stake in the field—local and state public health department staff; federal agency staff including the U.S. Department […]
This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements. Americans currently use about 100 gallons of water per day per person. In Cape Town, South Africa, extreme drought has limited residents to just 13 gallons of water per day since February 1. Depending on rainfall over the coming months, water taps in households and businesses may shut off entirely in this popular […]
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is the National Association of County and City Health Official’s (NACCHO) criteria-based recognition program that assesses local health departments’ (LHDs) capability and capacity to plan for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies. PPHR aims to protect and strengthen the public health infrastructure by equipping LHDs with tools to […]
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Join NACCHO and HSP for a webinar on workforce enhancement.
Anaheim, California | July 14-18, 2025
The partnership will help local health departments access data insights to improve the health across the country.
Apr 01, 2025
The VLC will cross-train health department professionals on integrating MCH considerations into emergency planning.
Feb 11, 2025 | Elana Filipos, Xander Hazel-Groux
Registration is now open for two in-person Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships 2.0 trainings.
Feb 01, 2025 | Andrea Grenadier
The Van Buren/Cass District Health Department partnered with the district library to improve community health education.
Nov 18, 2024 | Clarissa Montes
New opportunity designed to cross-train maternal and child health and emergency preparedness and response professionals.
Nov 14, 2024 | Elana Filipos
Registration is now open for NACCHO’s (MAPP) 2.0 training series.
May 09, 2024 | Andrea Grenadier
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