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NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public...
Jan 28, 2019 | NacchoVoice
In late spring/early summer of 2018, NACCHO hosted a four-part webinar series to help local health departments build capacity to...
Jan 24, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
By Laura H. Franzke, PhD, MPH Population Health Workforce Branch, Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development, CSELS...
Jan 09, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Earlier this year, NACCHO launched the Member Satisfaction Survey in support of our commitment to continuous quality improvement....
Dec 19, 2018 | NacchoVoice
Note: This is the fifth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Dec 17, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have...
Nov 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The National Association of County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO) Research and Evaluation team is excited to announce the release...
Nov 20, 2018
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical...
Nov 14, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health...
Oct 29, 2018 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public health. This interview features Damon Chaplin, MBA, Health Director of the New Bedford Health Department in Massachusetts. Below he shares how community partners have come together to address the growing opioid epidemic and discusses how the accreditation […]
In late spring/early summer of 2018, NACCHO hosted a four-part webinar series to help local health departments build capacity to engage in public health communication. The webinar topics were selected based on a two-part needs assessment that NACCHO conducted to determine local health departments’ communications capacity, capabilities, and skills gaps. The presentation slides from those...
By Laura H. Franzke, PhD, MPH Population Health Workforce Branch, Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development, CSELS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Judith C. Shlay, MD, MSPH, Associate Director, Denver Public Health If war is ultimately about people, then the opioid epidemic is indeed a war. In the confused geography of war, there are […]
Earlier this year, NACCHO launched the Member Satisfaction Survey in support of our commitment to continuous quality improvement. Nearly 450 members responded to the survey to share their perspectives about the ways in which NACCHO can continue working toward our vision of optimal health, equity, and security for all people in all communities. Results from […]
Note: This is the fifth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. December 2018 Dear Greener Guidance, What are some examples of innovative non-grant funding for local health departments? – Grant-sick Dear Grant-sick, Here are some examples of innovative funding in communities in Georgia and Washington: Cobb &...
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and refocus our efforts on what still needs to be done to end the epidemic. Local health departments are in the forefront of these efforts, working on initiatives to […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO) Research and Evaluation team is excited to announce the release of the 2018 Forces of Change report. The report highlights new findings on the forces that affect the nation’s local health departments (LHDs). Read the full report. Research shows that although the economic situation is […]
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series covering the Capabilities for Public Health Agency Involvement in Land Use and Transportation Decision Making to Increase Active Transportation Opportunity from the UMass Worcester Prevention Research...
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public health. This interview features Pramod Dwivedi DrPH, MS, MSW, MA, BSc, Health Director of the Linn County Health Department in Iowa. Below he shares the importance of positively affecting policy […]
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