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By Catherine Joyner & Michelle Reis, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health In 2014,...
Sep 18, 2018 | NacchoVoice
The 2019-20 Call for Applications (CFA) is now open until 3:00pm ET on November 7, 2018. Exceptional mid-career professionals from...
Sep 10, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical...
Sep 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Through the Southern HIV Impact Fund, AIDS United will award urgent action grants of up to $25,000 to organizations that challenge and...
Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Teaching and learning about sexual health doesn’t always need to be serious! The Illinois Community Health Foundation funded an...
Aug 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Every August, NACCHO participates in observing National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) to highlight the importance of...
Aug 03, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
It’s been nearly two years since NACCHO’s multi-article supplement, “Public Health Informatics: A Call to...
Jul 19, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
AIDS United, with funding from Gilead Sciences, Inc., is pleased to announce the opportunity for grant support through the People...
Jul 11, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Nominations are open for the Children’s Environmental Health Network’s 2018 NOW Youth Leadership Award. This award honors a young...
Jul 02, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Catherine Joyner & Michelle Reis, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health In 2014, the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Division of Public Health (DPH), convened a statewide Task Force on Essentials for Childhood, tasked with developing […]
The 2019-20 Call for Applications (CFA) is now open until 3:00pm ET on November 7, 2018. Exceptional mid-career professionals from academic faculties, government (including military, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and state offices who are not considered government officials under Section 4946 of the Internal Revenue Code)* and nonprofit health...
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Editor’s Note: This is the first 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...
Through the Southern HIV Impact Fund, AIDS United will award urgent action grants of up to $25,000 to organizations that challenge and strengthen the socio-political landscape of the U.S. South. The Southern HIV Impact Fund focuses on the needs of individuals and communities affected by HIV in three primary areas: prevention; care and support; and […]
Teaching and learning about sexual health doesn’t always need to be serious! The Illinois Community Health Foundation funded an awesome “update” to Salt-N-Pepa’s classic song, “Let’s Talk About Sex,” which continues the HIV-advocacy of the original song. The updated version is by Chicago-based rapper KC Ortiz, features other artists and influencers, and is all about PrEP, […]
Every August, NACCHO participates in observing National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) to highlight the importance of immunizations throughout the lifespan, particularly among school-aged children, pregnant women, babies and infants, pre-teens and teens, and adults. Local health departments (LHDs) play a vital role in increasing awareness about immunizations as a tool to protect communities...
It’s been nearly two years since NACCHO’s multi-article supplement, “Public Health Informatics: A Call to Action,” was featured in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Since then, it’s only become clearer that to effectively serve communities in today’s information-driven world, public health – and its cross-sector partners – must advance...
AIDS United, with funding from Gilead Sciences, Inc., is pleased to announce the opportunity for grant support through the People Organizing Positively initiative (formerly Positive Organizing Project)! People living with HIV have a critical role to play in combating stigma, serving as role models for disclosure and engagement in care, working to decriminalize HIV, and […]
Nominations are open for the Children’s Environmental Health Network’s 2018 NOW Youth Leadership Award. This award honors a young person (ages 12-21 at the time of the nomination) who has demonstrated exceptional environmental health leadership–efforts to protect human health, especially of our most vulnerable populations, through actions including: raising awareness of, advocacy for, and...
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