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  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Disease

CDC Online Training: Antibiotic Stewardship – Sections 3 + 4

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the final components...

Sep 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • Immunization
  • Infectious Disease

Update: Measles Cases in the United States

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a press release pertaining to the number of...

Sep 05, 2018 | Kerry Premo

  • Food Safety & Inspection
  • Infectious Disease

Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Linked to Chicken

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health and regulatory officials, and the U.S. Department...

Sep 04, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Immunization
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control
  • Infectious Disease

Florida Epidemiologists Combating HAIs by Becoming CIC Certified

By Luz Caicedo, MPH, CPH, CIC and Danielle Walden, MPH, Florida Department of Health in Orange County In 2018, the...

Aug 29, 2018 | Guest Author

  • Press Release
  • Immunization
  • Infectious Disease
  • Influenza

CDC: 2018-2019 Influenza Season Recommendations

On Thursday August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for the...

Aug 27, 2018 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott

  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • Infectious Disease

CDC: Antibiotics are Leading Cause of ED Visits for Adverse Drug Events in Children

Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and...

Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis
  • Infectious Disease

CDC: Prenatal Syphilis Screening

The number of reported cases of congenital syphilis (CS) has increased every year since 2012, and from 2012 to 2016,...

Aug 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • Epidemiology
  • Food Safety & Inspection
  • Infectious Disease
  • Water Quality

New Biomonitoring and Environmental Health Testing Videos from APHL

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) released two new videos on biomonitoring and environmental health...

Aug 01, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Tools & Resources
  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • Infectious Disease

CDC Online Training: Antibiotic Stewardship – Section 2

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the second of a...

Jul 25, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis
  • Immunization
  • Infectious Disease

The 2018 PHI Conference: Advancing a Call to Action

It’s been nearly two years since NACCHO’s multi-article supplement, “Public Health Informatics: A...

Jul 19, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 11, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

Calhoun
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 08, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

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Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

NACCHO’s Immunization team has developed the School-Located Vaccination Clinic...

Aug 31, 2023 | Kayla Miller, PHAP

Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
  • Community Engagement
  • Healthy People 2030

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

To help address the social determinants of health and advance health equity,...

Aug 14, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

PIMA County 1
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 14, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

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  • Community Engagement
  • Community Resilience
  • Immunization
  • Vaccine Hesitancy

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted what we already know to be true: higher-risk...

Aug 10, 2023 | Dominique Baradaran, MSM, Interim Chief of Community Health, Oklahoma City- County Health Department

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

Brownsville
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 07, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

Cook County
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 31, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

Cameron County 1
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 24, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: DuPage County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 17, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: DuPage County

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cass County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 10, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cass County

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
  • Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
  • Healthy Aging

New Release: Indicators of Healthy Aging: A Guide to...

NACCHO, in partnership with the Trust for America’s Health and with funding...

Jun 20, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

New Release: Indicators of Healthy Aging: A Guide to...

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Stories from the Field provides a means for local health departments to share their experiences and demonstrate the value of public health.
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