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Local Health Department Preparedness and Response to Ebola in the United States
Local health departments are playing a leading role in response to potential Ebola cases in the United States. They are working with...
Apr 01, 2015 | Guest Author
Apply for the Summer 2015 Local Public Health Policy Scholar Program
As the 2014-2015 academic year concludes, NACCHO’s Local Public Health Policy and Practice Scholars Program completed a successful...
Apr 01, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon
Strengthening Public Health at Its Core: A Focus on Disease Intervention Specialists
Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) work in communities throughout the United States and the U.S. territories to protect the...
Feb 19, 2015 | Guest Author
Hepatitis-A Case Strengthens Partnerships and Exercises Epidemic Response
Feb 06, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Fighting Infectious Disease in the United States: A New Report Looks at Our...
On December 18, 2014, the Trust for America’s Health, in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released its report...
Dec 23, 2014 | Guest Author
“Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014” Report Released
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released the “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from...
Dec 18, 2014 | Admin
Ebola in West Africa and the Importance of Local Health Departments to Global Health...
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is receiving intense national and international media attention. This is the largest...
Aug 12, 2014 | Guest Author
Healthcare and Public Health Critical Infrastructure Sector: December 17-31, 2013...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides an Open Source Infrastructure Report which is collected each business day as a...
Jan 10, 2014 | Justin Snair
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Release...
On Dec. 17, Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new report about the nation’s...
Dec 17, 2013 | Admin
Local Health Department Preparedness and Response to Ebola in the United StatesLocal health departments are playing a leading role in response to potential Ebola cases in the United States. They are working with state and federal counterparts and local stakeholders including hospitals, law enforcement, and emergency medical systems. Their goal is to ensure that individuals at risk for Ebola are monitored according to CDC guidance and symptomatic individuals are quickly... Apr 01, 2015 | Guest Author |
Apply for the Summer 2015 Local Public Health Policy Scholar ProgramAs the 2014-2015 academic year concludes, NACCHO’s Local Public Health Policy and Practice Scholars Program completed a successful pilot year. Twenty graduate-level students from across the country gained firsthand knowledge of the domestic public health landscape and the roles of local health departments. Participants gained subject matter expertise, refined their writing and research skills,... Apr 01, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon |
Strengthening Public Health at Its Core: A Focus on Disease Intervention SpecialistsDisease Intervention Specialists (DIS) work in communities throughout the United States and the U.S. territories to protect the public’s health. Originally established to work in the field of STD prevention, DIS have ground-level investigative skills that have become key components of tuberculosis outbreak response, HIV exposure notification, other infectious disease control efforts, and... Feb 19, 2015 | Guest Author |
Hepatitis-A Case Strengthens Partnerships and Exercises Epidemic ResponseFeb 06, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
Fighting Infectious Disease in the United States: A New Report Looks at Our ReadinessOn December 18, 2014, the Trust for America’s Health, in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released its report Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014. The report looks at states across ten criteria related to fighting infectious disease such as increasing or maintaining funding, vaccinating at least half of the population six months […] Dec 23, 2014 | Guest Author |
“Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014” Report ReleasedTrust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released the “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014” report. In midst of Ebola, the report outlines how domestic cases of Ebola have exposed serious underlying gaps in the national ability to manage severe infectious disease threats. Some key findings from the report include […] Dec 18, 2014 | Admin |
Ebola in West Africa and the Importance of Local Health Departments to Global Health SecurityThe current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is receiving intense national and international media attention. This is the largest outbreak of Ebola ever and impacts a region of Africa that has not previously reported cases. It has spread to four countries (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria) and sickened 1,848 people (suspected and confirmed cases […] Aug 12, 2014 | Guest Author |
Healthcare and Public Health Critical Infrastructure Sector: December 17-31, 2013 Open Source Issue ReportThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides an Open Source Infrastructure Report which is collected each business day as a summary of open source published information concerning significant critical infrastructure issues. The following is a digest of DHS reports related to the Healthcare and Public Health Sector for December 17th-31st, 2013. December 31, WUSA 9 […] Jan 10, 2014 | Justin Snair |
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Release “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases”On Dec. 17, Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new report about the nation’s ability to prevent and control infectious disease entitled “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases.” This new report shows that outdated systems and limited resources have impacted states’ abilities to prevent, control, and treat... Dec 17, 2013 | Admin |
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