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White House Launches National Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
The White House has released the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, a crucial step in addressing...
Dec 31, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
NACCHO Resources to Address the Recommendations in the “Outbreaks: Protecting...
On December 17, the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their annual report on the state of...
Dec 17, 2015 | Sara Chang
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and...
NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources,...
Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
NPIN Campaigns Database Promotes Health Awareness
Would you like to increase visibility of your health prevention or awareness campaign? CDC’s National Prevention Information...
Jul 14, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Strengthening Public Health at Its Core: A Focus on Disease Intervention Specialists
Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) work in communities throughout the United States and the U.S. territories to protect the...
Feb 19, 2015 | Guest Author
Fighting Infectious Disease in the United States: A New Report Looks at Our...
On December 18, 2014, the Trust for America’s Health, in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released its report...
Dec 23, 2014 | Guest Author
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Release...
On Dec. 17, Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new report about the nation’s...
Dec 17, 2013 | Admin
White House Launches National Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant TuberculosisThe White House has released the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, a crucial step in addressing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a growing public health threat that reflects missed opportunities to find, cure, and prevent TB at the earliest stages of infection. Despite being preventable and curable, TB ranks alongside HIV as the top cause of […] Dec 31, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
NACCHO Resources to Address the Recommendations in the “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases” ReportOn December 17, the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their annual report on the state of prevention and control of infectious disease outbreaks in the United States. Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases analyzes the country’s policies related to ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats and provides recommendations to […] Dec 17, 2015 | Sara Chang |
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and Promising PracticesNACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources, administrative practices, or tools that demonstrate exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation of both the... Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
NPIN Campaigns Database Promotes Health AwarenessWould you like to increase visibility of your health prevention or awareness campaign? CDC’s National Prevention Information Network’s (NPIN’s) searchable Campaigns Database features almost 70 English and Spanish prevention campaigns from national, state, and local agencies. Add your campaign to the database to augment your HIV, STI, viral hepatitis, and TB mobilization efforts. You... Jul 14, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
Strengthening Public Health at Its Core: A Focus on Disease Intervention SpecialistsDisease Intervention Specialists (DIS) work in communities throughout the United States and the U.S. territories to protect the public’s health. Originally established to work in the field of STD prevention, DIS have ground-level investigative skills that have become key components of tuberculosis outbreak response, HIV exposure notification, other infectious disease control efforts, and... Feb 19, 2015 | Guest Author |
Fighting Infectious Disease in the United States: A New Report Looks at Our ReadinessOn December 18, 2014, the Trust for America’s Health, in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released its report Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2014. The report looks at states across ten criteria related to fighting infectious disease such as increasing or maintaining funding, vaccinating at least half of the population six months […] Dec 23, 2014 | Guest Author |
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Release “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases”On Dec. 17, Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new report about the nation’s ability to prevent and control infectious disease entitled “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases.” This new report shows that outdated systems and limited resources have impacted states’ abilities to prevent, control, and treat... Dec 17, 2013 | Admin |
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