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Boston Public Health Commission’s Atyia Martin Discusses Response to the Boston...
By Ian Goldstein, Web and New Media Specialist, NACCHO The following is an excerpt from a recent podcast interview with Atyia Martin,...
Apr 18, 2014 | NacchoVoice
Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plans: Integrating Research and Practice
By Ian Goldstein, Web and New Media Specialist The following is an excerpt from NACCHO’s latest podcast featuring Gretchen Sampson,...
Mar 28, 2014 | NacchoVoice
Electronic Laboratory Reporting and the Public Health Workforce
By Roland Gamache, PhD, MBA, Senior Director, Informatics, NACCHO An informative article in this month’s Online Journal of Public...
Mar 13, 2014 | NacchoVoice
Reducing the Risk of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Older School Buildings
By Tina Yuen, MPH MCP CPH, Program Analyst The presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in buildings, especially school buildings,...
Mar 12, 2014 | NacchoVoice
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles with the Help of the Medical Reserve Corps
By Alyson Jordan, Communications Specialist, NACCHO, and Lisa Lee, School Health Project Coordinator, Monmouth County (NJ) Health...
Feb 27, 2014 | NacchoVoice
Health Impact Assessment: Role of Local Health Departments in Advancing Healthy...
Tina Yuen, MPH, MCP, CPH, Program Analyst, NACCHO With a growing emphasis for public health practitioners to address the root causes...
Jan 08, 2014 | NacchoVoice
National Health Security Preparedness Index Offers Local Health Departments the...
By Alyson Jordan, Communications Specialist, NACCHO This post originally ran on NACCHO’s new Preparedness Brief Blog. For more...
Dec 09, 2013 | NacchoVoice
Boston Public Health Commission’s Atyia Martin Discusses Response to the Boston Marathon BombingsBy Ian Goldstein, Web and New Media Specialist, NACCHO The following is an excerpt from a recent podcast interview with Atyia Martin, Director for the Office of Public Health Preparedness at the Boston Public Health Commission. On the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, Martin reflects on how her agency responded to the tragedy. […] Apr 18, 2014 | NacchoVoice |
Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plans: Integrating Research and PracticeBy Ian Goldstein, Web and New Media Specialist The following is an excerpt from NACCHO’s latest podcast featuring Gretchen Sampson, Director, Polk County (WI) Health Department, and Julie Willems Van Dijk, Associate Scientist at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. NACCHO: Community health assessments and community health improvement plans (CHAs/CHIPS) are essential and... Mar 28, 2014 | NacchoVoice |
Electronic Laboratory Reporting and the Public Health WorkforceBy Roland Gamache, PhD, MBA, Senior Director, Informatics, NACCHO An informative article in this month’s Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, “Estimating Increased Electronic Laboratory Reporting Volumes for Meaningful Use: Implications for the Public Health Workforce,” shows the value electronic laboratory results reporting can bring to the public’s health. The article also describes how... Mar 13, 2014 | NacchoVoice |
Reducing the Risk of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Older School BuildingsBy Tina Yuen, MPH MCP CPH, Program Analyst The presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in buildings, especially school buildings, is an emerging environmental public health issue. In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new guidance for school administrators and building managers with information to help minimize possible exposures. As local health departments (LHDs) are... Mar 12, 2014 | NacchoVoice |
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles with the Help of the Medical Reserve CorpsBy Alyson Jordan, Communications Specialist, NACCHO, and Lisa Lee, School Health Project Coordinator, Monmouth County (NJ) Health Department How can you take your community’s talents and use them to make children healthy and active? Monmouth County, NJ, found a way by engaging a variety of health and educational professionals to pilot a “School Health Council” […] Feb 27, 2014 | NacchoVoice |
Health Impact Assessment: Role of Local Health Departments in Advancing Healthy Public PoliciesTina Yuen, MPH, MCP, CPH, Program Analyst, NACCHO With a growing emphasis for public health practitioners to address the root causes of health impacts and inequities, local health departments (LHDs) have been challenged with working “upstream” to tackle the determinants of health. Health impact assessment (HIA) has emerged as a promising approach to help LHDs […] Jan 08, 2014 | NacchoVoice |
National Health Security Preparedness Index Offers Local Health Departments the Opportunity to Contribute to National Preparedness DialogueBy Alyson Jordan, Communications Specialist, NACCHO This post originally ran on NACCHO’s new Preparedness Brief Blog. For more preparedness news and resources, visit http://www.nacchopreparedness.org. On Dec. 4, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 20 other development partners... Dec 09, 2013 | NacchoVoice |
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