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Online Course: Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Health

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the CDC to develop a new online course, Wildfire Smoke and Your...

Nov 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers

  • Water Quality

    EPA Funding Opportunity: Approaches to Reduce Nutrient Loadings for Harmful Algal...

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program announces the release of the...

    Oct 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Extreme Weather

    Using the Wildfire Guide to Reduce your City and County’s Smoke Exposure Risk

    October is Healthy Lung Month and a good time to think about ways NACCHO members and their partners can protect the health of the...

    Oct 22, 2019 | Guest Author

  • Leadership, President's Corner

    Transformational Leader and Health Director Damon Chaplin Shares How He Motivates...

    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

  • Climate Change, Water Quality

    WHO Guide on Creating Healthy Environments

    This new guide from the World Health Organization (WHO) presents an overview of actions that can be taken by various actors – and the...

    Sep 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

  • Global Health, Success Story

    How Healthy Is Your Main Street? Adapting an Approach from the UK

    In the fall of 2018, the residents of the United Kingdom’s northern city of Grimsby could have been forgiven for choking on their...

    Sep 16, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

    • Climate Change, Extreme Weather

    Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Health Course

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a new online course, Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Heath, with continuing education credit provided by the CDC. The free course includes sections on: Health effects Lifestages and populations at greater risk of experiencing health effects Air […]

    Nov 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

    Tools & Resources, Extreme Weather

    EPA Launches SmokeSense Data Visualization Tool

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new online tool called the Smoke Sense Data Visualization Tool, which provides information on how the Smoke Sense app is being used by citizen scientists to report the impacts of wildfire smoke. Smoke Sense is a research project that enables the public to use a mobile phone […]

    Nov 21, 2019 | Kim Rodgers

    Tools & Resources, Extreme Weather

    Online Course: Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Health

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the CDC to develop a new online course, Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients' Health, with continuing education credit provided by the CDC. Sections include: health effects; life stages and populations at greater risk of experiencing health effects; air quality and smoke; actions to take before and during a wildfire.

    Nov 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers

    Water Quality

    EPA Funding Opportunity: Approaches to Reduce Nutrient Loadings for Harmful Algal Blooms Management

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program announces the release of the Approaches to Reduce Nutrient Loadings for Harmful Algal Blooms Management Request for Applications (RFA).

    Oct 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

    Extreme Weather

    Using the Wildfire Guide to Reduce your City and County’s Smoke Exposure Risk

    October is Healthy Lung Month and a good time to think about ways NACCHO members and their partners can protect the health of the public from the impacts of wildfire smoke.

    Oct 22, 2019 | Guest Author

    Leadership, President's Corner

    Transformational Leader and Health Director Damon Chaplin Shares How He Motivates His Staff and Gives Advice on Being a Better Leader

    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.

    Sep 30, 2019 | George Roberts

    Climate Change, Water Quality

    WHO Guide on Creating Healthy Environments

    This new guide from the World Health Organization (WHO) presents an overview of actions that can be taken by various actors – and the support that is being offered by WHO – to create healthier environments, including in priority settings such as workplaces, cities, dwellings, health care facilities, and emergency settings.

    Sep 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

    Global Health, Success Story

    How Healthy Is Your Main Street? Adapting an Approach from the UK

    In the fall of 2018, the residents of the United Kingdom’s northern city of Grimsby could have been forgiven for choking on their breakfast cereal when they saw in the news that their High Street (UK equivalent of a Main Street), was named by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), as the UK’s unhealthiest.

    Sep 16, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

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    PARTNER ARTICLES

    Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), Performance Improvement, Workforce Development

    Register to Attend a Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)...

    Registration is now open for NACCHO’s in-person Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) 2.0 training series.

    Mar 23, 2024 | Andrea Grenadier

    Partnerships

    Preparedness Summit 2024: Join a Focus Group on Building More Resilient Communities

    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

    Tools & Resources, Brain Health, Healthy Aging, Healthy Living & Prevention

    New NACCHO Resource: Integrating Brain Health into Health Improvement Planning: The...

    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

    Funding Opportunity, COVID-19, Immunization, Partnerships

    Request for Proposals: Technical Assistance to Improve Vaccine Access, Education,...

    NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...

    Feb 12, 2024 | Tori Decea

    Opportunity

    Win $25,000 in cash prizes. Share your innovative strategies for engaging with rural...

    The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...

    Nov 16, 2023 | Anu Varma

    Join Novavax for a Webinar About Their New Covid-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted

    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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    The Preparedness Brief provides updates and information from NACCHO’s public health preparedness portfolio.
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