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Apr 10, 2024 | Shannon Duffy
Nathan Nieto’s lab at Northern Arizona University conducted a tick study in 2016 using citizen science participation to collect...
Aug 01, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed school districts across the country on testing for lead in drinking water....
A recent Pew article cites several states and local jurisdictions that are changing laws to allow pet-owners to bring their dogs to...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report on air quality, tracking the country’s progress in...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a proposed operational control range around optimal fluoride...
By Dan Huff, Director of Environmental Health, and Gretchen Musicant, Commissioner of Health, Minneapolis Health Department This story...
Aug 01, 2018 | NacchoVoice
The Human Impact Partners team is conducting an evaluation of their Health Equity Guide website to understand how the Guide is being...
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) released two new videos on biomonitoring and environmental health testing: What...
Nathan Nieto’s lab at Northern Arizona University conducted a tick study in 2016 using citizen science participation to collect 16,080 ticks from 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. After receiving the ticks, the research team identified them and tested them for four tick-born pathogens, including Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. A goal of […]
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed school districts across the country on testing for lead in drinking water. Here is a brief summary of the findings: “An estimated 43 percent of school districts, serving 35 million students, tested for lead in school drinking water in 2016 or 2017, according to GAO’s nationwide survey of […]
A recent Pew article cites several states and local jurisdictions that are changing laws to allow pet-owners to bring their dogs to restaurant and bar patios. According to the article, many of the laws that exist are not often enforced, leading to some ambiguity and confusion for business owners. In Washington, DC, Ohio, and Virginia, […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report on air quality, tracking the country’s progress in improving air quality since the passage of the Clean Air Act. The report, “Our Nation’s Air: Status and Trends Through 2017,” documents the considerable improvements in air quality across America over more than 45 years. Between 1990 […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a proposed operational control range around optimal fluoride concentration in community water systems that adjust fluoride, and monthly adherence to that range. The proposed operational control range is 0.6 mg/L to 1.0 mg/L. CDC bases this guidance on the following considerations: (1) Concentration of fluoride in […]
By Dan Huff, Director of Environmental Health, and Gretchen Musicant, Commissioner of Health, Minneapolis Health Department This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements blog. Jaequan Faulkner, 13, started selling hot dogs in front of his Minneapolis home in 2016, calling his establishment “Mr. Faulkner’s Old Fashioned Hot Dogs.” His food stand came back this […]
The Human Impact Partners team is conducting an evaluation of their Health Equity Guide website to understand how the Guide is being used, how it has changed practice, and how they can improve it. Whether or not you have engaged extensively with the Health Equity Guide website, Human Impact Partners invites you to take a […]
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) released two new videos on biomonitoring and environmental health testing: What is biomonitoring? Biomonitoring is the process of testing people for chemicals in their body to determine how exposure might impact their health. But what exactly does that mean? How are public health and environmental health laboratories involved? […]
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