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Damon Chaplin, MBA, serves as the Health Director of the City of New Bedford Health Department in Massachusetts and is a current...
Sep 30, 2019 | George Roberts
FEMA is reviewing the 2013 Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) doctrine to incorporate the lessons learned and...
Aug 12, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Developed by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ HAI Subcommittee, the Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)...
Jul 31, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
By Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO On July 9–11, over 1,300 local public health professionals gathered in Orlando for...
Jul 16, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO Let me preface this conversation by mentioning how hard it was to gather...
Jun 28, 2019 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public...
Jun 06, 2019 | NacchoVoice
The National Environmental Health Association is hosingt a two-day training on Health in All Policies (HiAP) for public health...
May 07, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By JP Leider, Senior Lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...
Mar 04, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Jan 28, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Damon Chaplin, MBA, serves as the Health Director of the City of New Bedford Health Department in Massachusetts and is a current NACCHO Board Member. He has previously provided statewide leadership as a Regional Director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
FEMA is reviewing the 2013 Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) doctrine to incorporate the lessons learned and best practices from the past six years of HSEEP’s use among the whole community’s exercise practitioners. A critical element of the HSEEP review process is direct engagement with our state, local, tribal, territorial, and Federal partners […]
Developed by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ HAI Subcommittee, the Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) Drug Diversion Planning and Response Toolkit for State and Local Health Departments focuses on drug diversion response to define best practices, provides resources informed by past drug diversion investigations, and recommends the enhancement of collaborations...
By Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO On July 9–11, over 1,300 local public health professionals gathered in Orlando for the 2019 NACCHO Annual Conference. Attendees participated in dozens of insightful sharing sessions, learned from leading experts, and discovered solutions to improve local public health in their communities. This year’s theme, “Improving the Nation’s Health...
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO Let me preface this conversation by mentioning how hard it was to gather these reflections. It’s not that this past year has been so difficult—quite the contrary because it has been so rewarding, and busy— but because the end of the year is bittersweet. In many ways, the […]
NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public health. This interview features Emily Brown, MPH, CPH, Health Director for the Rio Grande County Public Health in Colorado. Below she highlights the importance of rural health being represented in all levels of government and shares how […]
The National Environmental Health Association is hosingt a two-day training on Health in All Policies (HiAP) for public health professionals. This free training will address the foundations of HiAP practice in the US; using HiAP to support public health priorities; methodologies of practice; and how to get started. You’ll hear from experts on using HiAP […]
By JP Leider, Senior Lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and independent consultant based out of Minneapolis, MN As NACCHO’s Profile Study returns to the field, I’ve decided to share a reminder of its importance to public health and thank practitioners. The field of […]
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 […]
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