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This letter was sent urging Congress to provide substantial additional investments to the governmental public health system at all...
Jul 23, 2020
This letter from NACCHO and other public health partners requests an additional $450 million in the next COVID-19 supplemental package...
Jul 23, 2020 | Ian Goldstein
Statement from the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Big Cities Health Coalition
Jun 15, 2020 | Theresa Spinner
In this week’s episode of Podcast from Washington, NACCHO Government Affairs team members Ian Goldstein and Eli Briggs discuss...
Jun 11, 2020 | Theresa Spinner
For Black people in the U.S., racist-driven violence is an everyday reality.
Jun 02, 2020 | Theresa Spinner
As Congress continues to work on legislation related to the COVID-19 response, we encourage Congress to ensure sufficient national...
May 12, 2020 | Theresa Spinner
NACCHO has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in federal funding for the public health response to COVID-19 and continues...
May 05, 2020 | NACCHO Government Affairs Team
NACCHO recently sent a letter to Congress highlighting the key role of health department staff on the front lines of the COVID-19...
May 04, 2020 | Taylarr Lopez
Yesterday, 19 former presidents of the NACCHO, on behalf of the nation’s nearly 3,000 local health departments, sent the following...
Apr 23, 2020 | Theresa Spinner
This letter was sent urging Congress to provide substantial additional investments to the governmental public health system at all levels (federal, state, local, tribal and territorial), as well as at least $3 billion in funding designated specifically for local health departments so that they can continue to lead on the response in the short term, as well as over the long-term response on...
This letter from NACCHO and other public health partners requests an additional $450 million in the next COVID-19 supplemental package for the Data Modernization Initiative. It also requests Congress include robust language in the next COVID-19 supplemental in support of data modernization at CDC and local and state health departments.
In this week’s episode of Podcast from Washington, NACCHO Government Affairs team members Ian Goldstein and Eli Briggs discuss NACCHO’s statement on racially driven violence against black Americans.
As Congress continues to work on legislation related to the COVID-19 response, we encourage Congress to ensure sufficient national capacity for a robust contact tracing workforce that builds on existing state, territorial, local, tribal, and federal health agency disease investigation programs to quickly identify and isolate COVID-19 cases.
NACCHO has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in federal funding for the public health response to COVID-19 and continues to seek additional funding.
NACCHO recently sent a letter to Congress highlighting the key role of health department staff on the front lines of the COVID-19 response and urging that they be recognized for their essential service.
Yesterday, 19 former presidents of the NACCHO, on behalf of the nation’s nearly 3,000 local health departments, sent the following letter calling on Congress to invest in the public health response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and in public health infrastructure long term to protect the public from future threats.
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