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On August 1, as a kick-off to National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), NACCHO hosted Talking About Vaccines: Lessons Learned from...
Aug 02, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a new website for the #HowIRecommend videos series, which features...
Aug 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Developed by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ HAI Subcommittee, the Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)...
Jul 31, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
This guide from the Government Alliance and Race and Equity (GARE) is meant to serve as a toolkit for informal and formal...
Jul 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
After a disaster, such as a hurricane, wildfire, or earthquake, septic systems may be damaged and fail to operate correctly. Ensuring...
Jul 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its webpage titled “Effectiveness of Prevention Strategies to...
Jul 23, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) has posted a Notice of Funding...
Jul 19, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
Developed by ASPR TRACIE, this report provides a triage framework for emergency medical providers that accounts for the difference...
Jul 18, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched five new tools that enable state and local health departments to easily find...
Jul 16, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
On August 1, as a kick-off to National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), NACCHO hosted Talking About Vaccines: Lessons Learned from CDC Research with Parents and Healthcare Professionals. During this webinar, Allison Fisher (CDC/NCIRD) and Elizabeth Ryan (Northrop Grumman-TEKsystems Contractor, CDC/NCIRD) presented key findings from CDC’s communication research with pregnant women, parents of...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a new website for the #HowIRecommend videos series, which features healthcare professionals discussing how they recommend vaccines to patients at various stages of life. In this series, healthcare professionals demonstrate how to make effective vaccine recommendations, address common vaccine questions, and take a team-based approach to...
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...
This guide from the Government Alliance and Race and Equity (GARE) is meant to serve as a toolkit for informal and formal communications about your jurisdiction’s work toward racial equity. Communicating about race and structural racial inequities can feel like a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. GARE learned and developed many best practices […]
After a disaster, such as a hurricane, wildfire, or earthquake, septic systems may be damaged and fail to operate correctly. Ensuring that these systems function properly is essential to providing safe waste disposal for millions of Americans, yet there may be no standard safety protocol in place for using septic systems after a disaster occurs. […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its webpage titled “Effectiveness of Prevention Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Acquiring or Transmitting HIV.” The webpage features tables that summarize the latest evidence for key HIV prevention strategies such as anti-retroviral therapy (ART), pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and condoms. These updated tables...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) has posted a Notice of Funding Opportunity (DHS-19-CWMD-077-001) for the First Responder Vaccine Initiative (FRVI) Pilot. The FRVI Pilot will provide the opportunity for selected State and Local jurisdictions to administer voluntary pre-event anthrax vaccine to first responders and evaluate the...
Developed by ASPR TRACIE, this report provides a triage framework for emergency medical providers that accounts for the difference between “conventional” mass casualty incidents (MCIs) and mass violence incidents. The focus of this paper is to alert EMS medical directors and EMS systems planners and hospital emergency planners to key differences between “conventional” MCIs and...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched five new tools that enable state and local health departments to easily find data on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) indications, behavior change impact, disease epidemiology, and policy and cost implications by jurisdiction. The tools include: The PrEP Populations web-based tool estimates the number of individuals indicated for PrEP...
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May 09, 2024 | Andrea Grenadier
Join your fellow public health professionals for a Town Hall-style Focus Group at the 2024 Preparedness Summit to explore what can be...
Mar 08, 2024
NACCHO, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association, is thrilled to launch the new guide: Integrating Brain Health into Health...
Mar 01, 2024 | Andrea Grenadier
NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
Feb 12, 2024 | Tori Decea
The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...
Nov 16, 2023 | Anu Varma
Join NACCHO and our Platinum Affiliate Business Partner, Novavax, on November 2nd at 2:00 PM ET to learn more about the newly FDA...
Oct 16, 2023
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