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The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will...
Nov 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A final report on a 2017-2019 outbreak of Salmonella Reading infections linked to raw turkey products serves as a reminder to handle...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and...
CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and Climate and Health Program have partnered with the National Environmental...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued the 2019 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a new...
Today, more than two million Americans live without running water and basic indoor plumbing, and many more without sanitation. Access...
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a comprehensive yearly analysis tracking the impact of climate change on human...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new online tool called the Smoke Sense Data Visualization Tool, which...
Nov 21, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will offer two $25,000 grants to support state, territorial, local or tribal (STLT) government health departments in utilizing public health data to carry out cross-sector, data-driven Health in All Policies (HiAP) demonstration projects to improve environmental health...
A final report on a 2017-2019 outbreak of Salmonella Reading infections linked to raw turkey products serves as a reminder to handle raw turkey safely and cook it thoroughly to prevent foodborne illness. The outbreak was widespread, sickening 356 people in 42 states and the District of Columbia. Although a single source of turkey was […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 infections. The source of the outbreak has not been determined. A total of 17 ill people have been reported from eight states. Seven […]
CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and Climate and Health Program have partnered with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to announce two $25,000 grants to support state, territorial, local or tribal (STLT) government health agencies that are already using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework to influence the Social Determinants of Health […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued the 2019 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards), which define the key elements of an effective retail food regulatory program for state, local, tribal, and territorial food regulatory jurisdictions. The Retail Program Standards provide recommendations for designing and managing retail...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a new online course, Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Heath, with continuing education credit provided by the CDC. The free course includes sections on: Health effects Lifestages and populations at greater risk of experiencing health effects Air […]
Today, more than two million Americans live without running water and basic indoor plumbing, and many more without sanitation. Access to clean, reliable running water and safe sanitation are essential for health, prosperity, and wellbeing, but they remain out of reach for some of the most vulnerable people in the United States. A new report […]
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a comprehensive yearly analysis tracking the impact of climate change on human health across 41 indicators. The report also projects the health benefits that would come from meeting the Paris Agreement targets, and the health harms of business as usual. The project is a collaboration of […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new online tool called the Smoke Sense Data Visualization Tool, which provides information on how the Smoke Sense app is being used by citizen scientists to report the impacts of wildfire smoke. Smoke Sense is a research project that enables the public to use a mobile phone […]
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