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  • Food Safety & Inspection

Registration Now Open - 2022 FDA Retail Food Protection Seminar to Focus on Norovirus and Foodborne Illnesses

This year’s free virtual seminar will have a focus on norovirus, including assessing employee health, investigating...

Jul 19, 2022 | Anu Varma

  • Food Safety & Inspection

CSTE Request for Proposals: CIFOR Strategic and Organizational Planning Consultant

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is seeking proposals from consultants/organizations to guide...

Jul 01, 2022

Food Safety
  • Tools & Resources
  • Webinar
  • Food Safety & Inspection

Recap: Learning from Local Public Health – A Series of Sharing Sessions in Retail Food Safety

If you missed either of the sharing sessions held on 5/26 or 6/2, you can now access the webinar materials.

Jun 06, 2022 | Anu Varma

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  • Webinar
  • Food Safety & Inspection

Learning from Local Public Health – A Series of Sharing Sessions in Retail Food Safety

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the Conference for Food Protection (CFP) will...

May 03, 2022 | Stephanie Puwalski

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  • Food Safety & Inspection

Save the Date: FDA Retail Food Protection Seminar

In partnership with the National Association of County and City Health Officials, join the U.S. Food and Drug...

Apr 27, 2022

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Webinar
  • Climate Change
  • Food Safety & Inspection

NACCHO & CDC Food Safety Sharing Session Recap: Climate Change & Food Safety (April 2022)

View the webinar recording and download the presentations for this Earth Day 2022 webinar!

Apr 26, 2022 | Stephanie Puwalski, Lema Mansoury

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  • Webinar
  • Climate Change
  • Food Safety & Inspection

NACCHO and CDC Presents Sharing Session on Climate Change and Food Safety

The National Association of County and City Health Officials and the National Environmental Health Association, with...

Apr 08, 2022

  • Food Safety & Inspection

Retail Program Standards Symposium Registration Is Open!

Registration is now open for the virtual Retail Program Standards Symposium to be held June 7-9, 2022.

Mar 29, 2022

  • Food Safety & Inspection

Testing Guidance for State/Local Agencies Surrounding Voluntary Recall of Infant Formula from Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, MI Facility

Collection, testing, and reporting guidance for state and local health departments now available.

Feb 23, 2022

  • Food Safety & Inspection

Local Health Departments: FDA Issues Urgent Recall of Powdered Infant Formula Sourced from Michigan Facility

From FDA: Do not use certain powdered infant formulas produced at Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, MI facility.

Feb 17, 2022

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The EPA’s Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local...

Nov 16, 2023 | Anu Varma

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Join Novavax for a Webinar About Their New Covid-19...

Join NACCHO and our Platinum Affiliate Business Partner, Novavax, on November...

Oct 16, 2023

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It’s Children’s Environmental Health Day today!

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Oct 12, 2023 | Anu Varma

It’s Children’s Environmental Health Day today!

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  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
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  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 11, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

Calhoun
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  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 08, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

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Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

NACCHO’s Immunization team has developed the School-Located Vaccination Clinic...

Aug 31, 2023 | Kayla Miller, PHAP

Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
  • Community Engagement
  • Healthy People 2030

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

To help address the social determinants of health and advance health equity,...

Aug 14, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 14, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

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  • Community Engagement
  • Community Resilience
  • Immunization
  • Vaccine Hesitancy

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted what we already know to be true: higher-risk...

Aug 10, 2023 | Dominique Baradaran, MSM, Interim Chief of Community Health, Oklahoma City- County Health Department

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

Brownsville
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 07, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

Cook County
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 31, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 24, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

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