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Apr 10, 2024 | Shannon Duffy
In response to the destruction from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria occurring across Southern states and U.S. territories in 2017,...
Jul 17, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By Mike Zelek, MPH, Division Director, Health Promotion and Policy, Chatham County Public Health Department Planning for public health...
Jul 17, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
In business, you don’t sell the competitor’s product; you sell your product – you want to prosper. In the non-profit or public health...
Jul 17, 2018 | Guest Author
Smoke-free multi-unit housing benefits residents and property owners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
Jul 17, 2018 | Taylarr Lopez
The National HPV Vaccination Roundtable’s Power to Prevent HPV Cancer communications package makes it easy for you to encourage...
Jul 16, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The 2018 National Immunization Conference (NIC) was held in May and brought together together more than 1,500 local, state, federal,...
National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), held in August, is an annual observance to promote the importance of vaccination for...
The HPV Vaccine is Cancer Prevention Champion Award is an annual award given jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
In response to the destruction from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria occurring across Southern states and U.S. territories in 2017, AIDS United was moved to act and help address the growing needs of agencies serving the HIV community. AIDS United has made funds available through this request for applications (RFA) to assist in meeting the […]
By Mike Zelek, MPH, Division Director, Health Promotion and Policy, Chatham County Public Health Department Planning for public health seems to be all the rage these days, with public health practitioners engaging partners from a range of sectors in hopes of finally making progress on those hard-to-change issues like obesity. At the Chatham County Public Health […]
In business, you don’t sell the competitor’s product; you sell your product – you want to prosper. In the non-profit or public health sector, you work together. What? Who gets the profit, the prize, the prosperity? As it turns out, the profit is in the partnership; community health is the prize; and we all prosper.
Smoke-free multi-unit housing benefits residents and property owners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires every public housing agency to implement a smoke-free policy by July 2018. Local health departments play a key role in working with public housing agencies to prepare, implement, educate, enforce, and evaluate smoke-free housing policies.
The National HPV Vaccination Roundtable’s Power to Prevent HPV Cancer communications package makes it easy for you to encourage the healthcare providers, systems administrators, clinical practice staff and immunizers in your local health department and at other local organizations to flex their super powers and prevent HPV cancers. This package has eight weeks of content to keep […]
The 2018 National Immunization Conference (NIC) was held in May and brought together together more than 1,500 local, state, federal, and private-sector immunization stakeholders and partners to explore science, policy, education, and planning issues related to immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases. The NIC mission is to offer information that will help participants provide comprehensive...
National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), held in August, is an annual observance to promote the importance of vaccination for people of all ages. To facilitate local support of this national awareness effort, the National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) developed a communications and messaging toolkit for each week of NIAM 2018: Back to School (July/August) Pregnant women (August...
The HPV Vaccine is Cancer Prevention Champion Award is an annual award given jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Cancer Society (ACS), and Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). This award recognizes clinicians, clinics, practices, groups, and health systems that are going above and beyond to foster HPV vaccination in their communities. This...
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Mar 01, 2024 | Andrea Grenadier
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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
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