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

  • LHDs and the YMCA: Partnering to Prevent Diabetes

    By Iris Tiongco, Program Associate, NACCHO YMCA of the USA (Y-USA), one of the nation’s leading nonprofits strengthening communities...

    Jun 26, 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

  • 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 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 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

    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 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 Departments

    By 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 Planning

    Authors: 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 Treatment

    Date: 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

    LHDs and the YMCA: Partnering to Prevent Diabetes

    By Iris Tiongco, Program Associate, NACCHO YMCA of the USA (Y-USA), one of the nation’s leading nonprofits strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, received the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Health Care Innovation Award. As an award recipient, Y-USA will undertake a three-year project to deliver its Diabetes Prevention Program...

    Jun 26, 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 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

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