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Apr 10, 2024 | Shannon Duffy
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in partnership with ecoAmerica, Climate for Health, developed a 5-minute video...
Oct 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) released a report on the express legal authorities for mosquito...
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) released an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on adults’...
An article on a Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework developed by NACCHO staff was published in the Journal of Environmental...
NACCHO released a new policy statement on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). NACCHO advises federal, state, and local...
In November, NCHH, in collaboration with NEHA, NACCHO, and ASTHO, will offer a new funding opportunity for local governmental agencies...
To help health departments address challenges related to mumps, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in close...
Oct 18, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Oct 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in partnership with ecoAmerica, Climate for Health, developed a 5-minute video showcasing NEHA member success stories that address climate change impacts. Environmental health professionals and members of NEHA’s Climate Change Committee share their inspiring stories regarding strategies for adaptation, mitigation at the community level, and...
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) released a report on the express legal authorities for mosquito control in the United States, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The report includes an overview of the types of legal authority for mosquito control activities, a set of considerations for better understanding the legal authority, a summary […]
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) released an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on adults’ use of personal hearing protection devices at loud athletic or entertainment events. The report found that approximately 8% of the surveyed adults reported consistent use of a hearing protection device (HPD) at loud athletic or entertainment […]
An article on a Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework developed by NACCHO staff was published in the Journal of Environmental Health. The article, “Navigating Degrees of Collaboration: A Proposed Framework for Identifying and Implementing Health in All Policies,” focuses on a framework that provides practitioners with a common language for working with partners, assessing current...
NACCHO released a new policy statement on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). NACCHO advises federal, state, and local governments and related agencies to continue research initiatives and enact legislation to manage the human and environmental health risks of CAFOs. The policy statement was proposed by NACCHO’s Global Climate Change Workgroup and approved by NACCHO’s...
In November, NCHH, in collaboration with NEHA, NACCHO, and ASTHO, will offer a new funding opportunity for local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention programs (i.e., local health departments, local environmental health agencies). The funding will support their agency to implement a Health in All Policies strategy as part of their lead prevention […]
To help health departments address challenges related to mumps, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in close collaboration with state and local health departments and national mumps experts, has developed new mumps outbreak response guidance and resources: Guidance on use of a third dose of MMR vaccine during mumps outbreaks, when implementing the […]
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. This post is the third in NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in […]
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The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...
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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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