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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Award for Health Equity recognizes an...
Feb 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Join UCHAPS for a Facebook Live series on how national campaigns can improve public health messaging using modern technology to reach...
Jan 31, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public...
Jan 28, 2019 | NacchoVoice
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials...
Jan 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A new article from The Journal of the American Medical Association discusses the scientifically supported concept of...
Jan 14, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
By Grace McClain, Program Analyst, NACCHO This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements blog. Global climate change...
Jan 07, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is offering a funding opportunity to develop and amplify the evidence around a set of approaches...
Jan 07, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Earlier this year, NACCHO launched the Member Satisfaction Survey in support of our commitment to continuous quality improvement....
Dec 19, 2018 | NacchoVoice
Note: This is the fifth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Dec 17, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Award for Health Equity recognizes an individual, or team of no more than two individuals, who has successfully implemented a systems change approach to reduce health disparities and achieve health equity in his/her community within the past two years. Health disparities is defined as the […]
Join UCHAPS for a Facebook Live series on how national campaigns can improve public health messaging using modern technology to reach priority populations. Part 1: On February 6 at 2 PM, Dr. Helen Holton, the Executive Director of National Organization of Black County Officials (NOBCO), to discuss reaching Black women in national public health campaigns with […]
NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public health. This interview features Damon Chaplin, MBA, Health Director of the New Bedford Health Department in Massachusetts. Below he shares how community partners have come together to address the growing opioid epidemic and discusses how the accreditation […]
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), offered a new funding opportunity in fall 2018 to local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention...
A new article from The Journal of the American Medical Association discusses the scientifically supported concept of “Undetectable = Untransmittable.” Below is the opening excerpt: In 2016, the Prevention Access Campaign, a health equity initiative with the goal of ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic as well as HIV-related stigma, launched the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U)...
By Grace McClain, Program Analyst, NACCHO This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements blog. Global climate change may seem like a public health threat of the future, but many communities in the United States are feeling the health impacts of climate change today. Both geological and medical sciences have linked climate change to extreme […]
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is offering a funding opportunity to develop and amplify the evidence around a set of approaches that improve community health and well-being and advance health equity, while also addressing climate change adaptation or mitigation. Eligible, local approaches can focus on one or more of a range of determinants of health—including, […]
Earlier this year, NACCHO launched the Member Satisfaction Survey in support of our commitment to continuous quality improvement. Nearly 450 members responded to the survey to share their perspectives about the ways in which NACCHO can continue working toward our vision of optimal health, equity, and security for all people in all communities. Results from […]
Note: This is the fifth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. December 2018 Dear Greener Guidance, What are some examples of innovative non-grant funding for local health departments? – Grant-sick Dear Grant-sick, Here are some examples of innovative funding in communities in Georgia and Washington: Cobb &...
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