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Workforce Challenges in Public Health Preparedness

Its mid-February in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Pete Baril, the emergency preparedness coordinator for the Western Upper Peninsula...

Nov 07, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

  • Volunteer Efforts Continue Local Preparedness Education

    Since 2004, the Orleans County Health Department (NY) has only had one emergency preparedness professional on staff due to...

    Nov 01, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

  • Injury and Violence Prevention, Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health, Social Determinants of Health

    Always Buckle Up Children in the Backseat

    The Madison County Health Department promotes the Always Buckle up Children in the Backseat program through education.

    Oct 18, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

  • Injury and Violence Prevention, Opioid Overdose Epidemic, Social Determinants of Health

    Alex’s Story

    For Alex’s parents, rural Ohio seemed like the perfect location to raise a family. In its rolling hills and vast farmland laid the...

    Oct 18, 2013 | Guest Author

  • Safety Village Educates Children

    Oct 02, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

  • Partnerships Make California Exercise Possible

    Oct 02, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

  • Using Field Research To Improve Disaster Response

    In 2013, NACCHO awarded a Competitive Capacity Building Award to the Marin Medical Reserve Corps Foundation to explore best practices...

    Sep 17, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    • Climate Change, Extreme Weather

    Hurricane Katrina: Using Incident Command for Public Health

    In 2005, in the aftermath of Katrina, the unprecedented extent of the destruction made response efforts even more difficult. This story describes what was then a unique pairing of Emergency Management and Public Health utilizing the Incident Command System to conduct a more effective and coordinated public health response.

    Nov 12, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Infectious Disease, Informatics, Social Determinants of Health

    Syndromic Surveillance: The Boston Experience

    Nov 07, 2013 | Guest Author

    Workforce Challenges in Public Health Preparedness

    Its mid-February in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Pete Baril, the emergency preparedness coordinator for the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, arrives at the office. He sets off across the freshly plowed parking lot, pondering the task before him. “Three deep,” he says as he scrapes the remainder of last night’s snowfall away from the entrance.

    Nov 07, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Volunteer Efforts Continue Local Preparedness Education

    Since 2004, the Orleans County Health Department (NY) has only had one emergency preparedness professional on staff due to programmatic and budget constraints. Thanks to the assistance of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) volunteers from the Orleans County VALOR MRC, emergency preparedness and community resiliency education efforts through the health department continue.

    Nov 01, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Injury and Violence Prevention, Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health, Social Determinants of Health

    Always Buckle Up Children in the Backseat

    The Madison County Health Department promotes the Always Buckle up Children in the Backseat program through education.

    Oct 18, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Injury and Violence Prevention, Opioid Overdose Epidemic, Social Determinants of Health

    Alex’s Story

    For Alex’s parents, rural Ohio seemed like the perfect location to raise a family. In its rolling hills and vast farmland laid the safety and security of a small town setting. The schools were filled with neighbors’ children and residents did not think twice about leaving the doors to their homes unlocked. That is, until their teenage son became an opiate addict.

    Oct 18, 2013 | Guest Author

    Safety Village Educates Children

    Oct 02, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Partnerships Make California Exercise Possible

    Oct 02, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

    Using Field Research To Improve Disaster Response

    In 2013, NACCHO awarded a Competitive Capacity Building Award to the Marin Medical Reserve Corps Foundation to explore best practices in MMRC/CERT and MMRC/Hospital collaboration in Marin County, California. This article describes how we used modified field research to examine the contribution citizen first responders make immediately following a disaster and before they are officially deployed...

    Sep 17, 2013 | Alyson Jordan

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    Join your fellow public health professionals for a Town Hall-style Focus Group at the 2024 Preparedness Summit to explore what can be...

    Mar 08, 2024

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    NACCHO, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association, is thrilled to launch the new guide: Integrating Brain Health into Health...

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    Join NACCHO and our Platinum Affiliate Business Partner, Novavax, on November 2nd at 2:00 PM ET to learn more about the newly FDA...

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