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When Spring Showers Bring Floods instead of Flowers: Lowering Flooding Risks for...
By Cliff Treyens, Director of General Public Outreach, National Ground Water Association National Groundwater Awareness Week, recently...
Mar 20, 2017 | Guest Author
Seeking State and Local MCM Planners: CDC Invitation-Only Workshop
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with federal partners across the Public Health Emergency Medical...
Mar 17, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Curbing Opioid Overdose Using Programmatic and Geospatial Data
By Kate Lena, MPH, Linkages to Care Coordinator, AHOPE Needle Exchange Program, Boston Public Health Commission This is an excerpt...
Mar 17, 2017 | NacchoVoice
Shingles Awareness Toolkit
As part of a Shingles Awareness Month campaign in Birmingham, Alabama (AL), the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases released a...
Mar 16, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
SASI Report: State of HIV in the US Deep South
Recent research from the Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) has documented that the US Deep South region (AL, FL, GA, LA,...
Mar 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
2017 Preparedness Summit: Full Plenary Schedule
The full plenary schedule is now available for the 2017 Preparedness Summit, scheduled to take place on April 25-28, 2017 in Atlanta....
Mar 15, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Gear Up for STD Awareness Month!
April is STD Awareness Month. This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is focused on tackling the dangerous...
Mar 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup February 2017 Report
The Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup held its monthly call on February 28, 2017. The workgroup discussed...
Mar 13, 2017 | Sarah Summers
When Spring Showers Bring Floods instead of Flowers: Lowering Flooding Risks for Private Well UsersBy Cliff Treyens, Director of General Public Outreach, National Ground Water Association National Groundwater Awareness Week, recently observed on March 5-11, affords an opportunity to deliver a timely message to private household water well owners. April showers not only bring May flowers, they can also cause floods inundating private wells, which serve as the primary source […] Mar 20, 2017 | Guest Author |
Seeking State and Local MCM Planners: CDC Invitation-Only WorkshopThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with federal partners across the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) to assess the various medical countermeasure (MCM) response plans and guidance currently in development by the federal government to support public health emergency efforts. As a critical part of this effort, CDC is […] Mar 17, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Curbing Opioid Overdose Using Programmatic and Geospatial DataBy Kate Lena, MPH, Linkages to Care Coordinator, AHOPE Needle Exchange Program, Boston Public Health Commission This is an excerpt from the 2017 NACCHO Exchange Winter Issue on opioids. Opioid misuse is highly stigmatized and criminalized, making people who inject opioids an especially hard-to-reach, high-risk population and hampering public health surveillance efforts to understand the […] Mar 17, 2017 | NacchoVoice |
Shingles Awareness ToolkitAs part of a Shingles Awareness Month campaign in Birmingham, Alabama (AL), the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases released a digital Shingles Awareness Toolkit. The toolkit features a variety of communications materials, including a poster, FAQs, sample social media posts, PSA video, and sample newsletter/website language to help share information about shingles and the vaccine... Mar 16, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
SASI Report: State of HIV in the US Deep SouthRecent research from the Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) has documented that the US Deep South region (AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX) is a significant driver of the US HIV epidemic, with especially high HIV and AIDS diagnosis rates and HIV-related death rates from 2008-2013. In response, SASI recently released State of HIV in the US […] Mar 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
2017 Preparedness Summit: Full Plenary ScheduleThe full plenary schedule is now available for the 2017 Preparedness Summit, scheduled to take place on April 25-28, 2017 in Atlanta. This year’s plenaries will feature conversations with leaders and experts from diverse sectors about issues such as biodefense, technological innovation, and the evolving status of water in the context of national health security. […] Mar 15, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Gear Up for STD Awareness Month!April is STD Awareness Month. This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is focused on tackling the dangerous resurgence of syphilis. Reported cases and rates for primary and secondary syphilis are the highest they have been in more than 20 years. Rates have increased in every region, a majority of age groups, […] Mar 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup February 2017 ReportThe Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup held its monthly call on February 28, 2017. The workgroup discussed proposed updates to the public health preparedness planning policy statement. Senior Director for Preparedness, Laura Biesiadecki, joined the call to discuss PAHPRA reauthorization and planned town halls at the 2017 Preparedness Summit in April. Workgroup members... Mar 13, 2017 | Sarah Summers |
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