MERS-CoV: Preparing Locally for a Global Concern

By Leah Moriarty, Public Health Preparedness Intern, NACCHO The Johnson County (KS) Department of Health and Environment, along with...

Aug 05, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • LHDs and the YMCA: Partnering to Prevent Diabetes

    By Iris Tiongco, Program Associate, NACCHO YMCA of the USA (Y-USA), one of the nation’s leading nonprofits strengthening communities...

    Jun 26, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention: Lessons for LHDs

    This is part two of a two-part interview with Terry Allan, RS, MPH, Health Commissioner, Cuyahoga County Board of Health, and current...

    May 23, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • The Profile Study at Work

    By Carolyn Leep, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, NACCHO Ever wonder what NACCHO does with data from that Profile survey...

    May 01, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • Four Tips for Building Partnerships before Disaster Strikes

    By Sara Rubin, MPH, MA, Program Analyst, NACCHO Hurricane Sandy left more than 100 dead and millions without power across much of the...

    Apr 23, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • ACHIEVE Chronicles: Eliminating Food Deserts One Gas Station at a Time

    By Vicky Bass, Program Analyst, NACCHO This is the second post in the ACHIEVE Chronicles, a series about Action Communities for...

    Apr 17, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • The ACHIEVE Chronicles: Building Healthy Communities and Partnerships across the...

    By Vicky Bass, Program Analyst, NACCHO When I started working on NACCHO’s chronic disease team in December, I was excited to hear that...

    Apr 15, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • Local Strategies Helping Move ACA Forward in West Virginia

    This post was originally published on the Public Health Newswire as part of a series on the impact of the Affordable Care Act written...

    Apr 08, 2013 | NacchoVoice

  • MERS-CoV: Preparing Locally for a Global Concern

    By Leah Moriarty, Public Health Preparedness Intern, NACCHO The Johnson County (KS) Department of Health and Environment, along with other local health departments (LHDs), is spreading the word about a virus with a 50 percent case fatality ratio, but which has not yet reached the United States. The virus, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), […]

    Aug 05, 2013 | NacchoVoice

    LHDs and the YMCA: Partnering to Prevent Diabetes

    By Iris Tiongco, Program Associate, NACCHO YMCA of the USA (Y-USA), one of the nation’s leading nonprofits strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, received the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Health Care Innovation Award. As an award recipient, Y-USA will undertake a three-year project to deliver its Diabetes Prevention Program...

    Jun 26, 2013 | NacchoVoice

    Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention: Lessons for LHDs

    This is part two of a two-part interview with Terry Allan, RS, MPH, Health Commissioner, Cuyahoga County Board of Health, and current NACCHO president. Cuyahoga County Board of Health serves a population of approximately 855,000 in the greater Cleveland area. In part one, Allan described how his health department built a successful collaboration that has […]

    May 23, 2013 | NacchoVoice

    The Profile Study at Work

    By Carolyn Leep, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, NACCHO Ever wonder what NACCHO does with data from that Profile survey that took you so long to complete? From January through March, approximately 2,000 local health departments (LHDs) completed the National Profile of Local Health Departments (Profile) survey. Profile is a comprehensive (read “long”) survey […]

    May 01, 2013 | NacchoVoice

    Four Tips for Building Partnerships before Disaster Strikes

    By Sara Rubin, MPH, MA, Program Analyst, NACCHO Hurricane Sandy left more than 100 dead and millions without power across much of the Northeast, and as far west as Michigan, last October. While many examples have come before it, Hurricane Sandy is the latest catastrophe to prove that disasters know no borders and present new […]

    Apr 23, 2013 | NacchoVoice

    ACHIEVE Chronicles: Eliminating Food Deserts One Gas Station at a Time

    By Vicky Bass, Program Analyst, NACCHO This is the second post in the ACHIEVE Chronicles, a series about Action Communities for Health, Innovation and EnVironmental changE (ACHIEVE). ACHIEVE is a collaboration among the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several national organizations, including NACCHO, to provide funding, technical assistance, and training to 149 communities […]

    Apr 17, 2013 | NacchoVoice

    The ACHIEVE Chronicles: Building Healthy Communities and Partnerships across the Country

    By Vicky Bass, Program Analyst, NACCHO When I started working on NACCHO’s chronic disease team in December, I was excited to hear that I would be visiting local health departments (LHDs) across the country that participated in a project called ACHIEVE and that I would be given the opportunity to share their stories. Action Communities […]

    Apr 15, 2013 | NacchoVoice

    Local Strategies Helping Move ACA Forward in West Virginia

    This post was originally published on the Public Health Newswire as part of a series on the impact of the Affordable Care Act written by contributing authors with varying public health perspectives. This piece comes from NACCHO board member Rahul Gupta, health officer and executive director of Kanawha-Charleston Health Department in West Virginia. Gupta offers his […]

    Apr 08, 2013 | NacchoVoice

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