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By JP Leider, Senior Lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...
Mar 04, 2019 | NacchoVoice
On November 13, 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) which...
Nov 13, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
Public Health Reports (PHR), a peer-reviewed journal of public health research and practice and the official journal of the Office of...
Nov 07, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently released the Rural and Frontier Healthcare Coalitions:...
Oct 15, 2018
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between...
Oct 02, 2018
You may have heard about Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) in passing from colleagues over the years. But what exactly is the program...
Sep 28, 2018
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is currently recruiting reviewers for the Project Public Health...
Jun 01, 2018
On April 26, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) hosted more than one-hundred representatives from...
May 30, 2018
CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) released its 10th annual Public Health Preparedness and Response...
May 07, 2018
By JP Leider, Senior Lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and independent consultant based out of Minneapolis, MN As NACCHO’s Profile Study returns to the field, I’ve decided to share a reminder of its importance to public health and thank practitioners. The field of […]
On November 13, 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) which finds an increase in cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) in August and September 2018. Symptoms of AFM include sudden weakness of the arms or legs and the median patient age is four years. […]
Public Health Reports (PHR), a peer-reviewed journal of public health research and practice and the official journal of the Office of the Surgeon General and US Public Health Service, is inviting submissions for a supplement on policy approaches to reduce the morbidity, mortality, and incidence of HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB) […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently released the Rural and Frontier Healthcare Coalitions: A Preparedness and Response Snapshot fact sheet. NACCHO conducted key informant interviews with rural and frontier healthcare coalitions (HCC) from nine states to document the responsibilities, capabilities, and challenges of coalitions in these areas. The findings...
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help local health departments (LHDs) build their preparedness capacity through a continuous quality improvement model. Here are the top...
You may have heard about Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) in passing from colleagues over the years. But what exactly is the program about? PPHR is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is currently recruiting reviewers for the Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) fall review cycle. PPHR is a criteria-based training and recognition program that assesses local health department (LHD) capacity and capability to plan for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies. Every year, local […]
On April 26, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) hosted more than one-hundred representatives from local health agencies at a reception in Atlanta, Ga. in celebration of achieving Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) recognition. A total of 28 health agencies were honored for their readiness to face public health emergencies of […]
CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) released its 10th annual Public Health Preparedness and Response National Snapshot. The report highlights preparedness activities and investments at the federal, state, and local levels and features stories that demonstrate the impact of these activities.
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Andrea Grenadier will share examples of LHD-related success stories and highlight tools and resources you can use to support your communications work.
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A Model Aquatic Health Code Network webinar featuring Columbus Public Health.
PHI*con is a conference focusing on Public Health Informatics, Surveillance, and IT. It will be held July 22-23, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan.
The largest convening of local health department leaders and public health professionals in the United States.
Registration is now open for NACCHO’s (MAPP) 2.0 training series.
May 09, 2024 | Andrea Grenadier
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
NACCHO, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association, is thrilled to launch the new guide: Integrating Brain Health into Health...
Mar 01, 2024 | Andrea Grenadier
NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
Feb 12, 2024 | Tori Decea
The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...
Nov 16, 2023 | Anu Varma
Join NACCHO and our Platinum Affiliate Business Partner, Novavax, on November 2nd at 2:00 PM ET to learn more about the newly FDA...
Oct 16, 2023
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