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Don’t Miss NACCHO Annual 2016
Every year, local health department professionals gather at NACCHO Annual to share opportunities and challenges, learn how to adopt...
Feb 29, 2016 | Admin
New 2016 Preparedness Summit Plenary Announced
Making Smart Choices: Disaster Risk Reduction At Home and Abroad Between 2000 and 2011, more than 2.7 billion people were affected by...
Feb 24, 2016 | Mary Hodges
FCC to Strengthen Emergency Alert System Rules
On Thursday, January 28, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to adopt proposed rules to strengthen the Emergency...
Feb 22, 2016 | Mary Hodges
Capturing Patient and Vaccine Information at Mass Vaccination Clinics – A Catalog of...
By Tom Fitzgerald, MPH; Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Response Fellow, CDC/NCIRD/ISD For many health departments, data collection during...
Feb 18, 2016 | Mary Hodges
February 2016 Preparedness Policy Advisory Group Report
The Preparedness Policy Advisory Group (PPAG) held its monthly call on February 10. During this call, Lilly Kan, NACCHO’s Acting...
Feb 16, 2016 | Nicole Dunifon
The National Adult Immunization Plan Released
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released the National Adult Immunization Plan (NAIP) to provide an overview of...
Feb 16, 2016 | Mary Hodges
2016 Preparedness Summit Closing Plenary Announced
Planning for the Marathon, Not the Sprint: Building Disaster Mental Health Recovery into Preparedness Planning The impacts of a...
Feb 10, 2016 | Mary Hodges
Strengthening Infection Control to Prevent and Contain the Next Outbreak
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit...
Feb 03, 2016 | Mary Hodges
The Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup – January 2016...
The Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) workgroup held its monthly call on January 26. This month’s meeting focused...
Jan 29, 2016 | Nicole Dunifon
Don’t Miss NACCHO Annual 2016Every year, local health department professionals gather at NACCHO Annual to share opportunities and challenges, learn how to adopt best practices, engage with federal and local partners, and gain insights from public health experts. This year, NACCHO Annual will be July 19-21 in Phoenix and early bird registration rates are available until June 9. Why […] Feb 29, 2016 | Admin |
New 2016 Preparedness Summit Plenary AnnouncedMaking Smart Choices: Disaster Risk Reduction At Home and Abroad Between 2000 and 2011, more than 2.7 billion people were affected by and $1.3 trillion dollars was lost due to disasters. Earthquakes, floods, droughts, and cyclones are natural hazards believed to be natural disasters that can’t be prevented. The concept of Disaster Risk Reduction states […] Feb 24, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
FCC to Strengthen Emergency Alert System RulesOn Thursday, January 28, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to adopt proposed rules to strengthen the Emergency Alert System (EAS), our national public warning system. The major proposed change includes new EAS designations to more accurately reflect current roles and responsibilities of key EAS participants—which include radio and television broadcast stations, cable... Feb 22, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
Capturing Patient and Vaccine Information at Mass Vaccination Clinics – A Catalog of Electronic TechnologiesBy Tom Fitzgerald, MPH; Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Response Fellow, CDC/NCIRD/ISD For many health departments, data collection during mass vaccination clinics conducted in response to a pandemic or outbreak is often done manually. This can be time-consuming and labor intensive, but it is an extremely important component of pandemic vaccine response, particularly if there are multiple […] Feb 18, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
February 2016 Preparedness Policy Advisory Group ReportThe Preparedness Policy Advisory Group (PPAG) held its monthly call on February 10. During this call, Lilly Kan, NACCHO’s Acting Senior Director of Infectious Disease, provided an update on Zika. In addition, Katie Dwyer, Senior Program Analyst at NACCHO presented the preliminary results of NACCHO’s Preparedness Profile Survey. This presentation provided high-level results in the […] Feb 16, 2016 | Nicole Dunifon |
The National Adult Immunization Plan ReleasedThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released the National Adult Immunization Plan (NAIP) to provide an overview of actions needed to be undertaken by federal and nonfederal partners to protect public health and achieve optimal prevention of infectious diseases and their consequences through vaccination of adults. The plan establishes four key goals, each […] Feb 16, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
2016 Preparedness Summit Closing Plenary AnnouncedPlanning for the Marathon, Not the Sprint: Building Disaster Mental Health Recovery into Preparedness Planning The impacts of a disaster are complex, long-lasting, and require public health responses on multiple levels. Residents often battle symptoms of depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, which can reverberate into other parts of the community. These effects can continue long […] Feb 10, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
Strengthening Infection Control to Prevent and Contain the Next OutbreakThis post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. By Sara Chang, Program Analyst, NACCHO As the CDC and World Health Organization escalate their preparedness and response activities for Zika virus disease, it will be critical for public health preparedness and response systems,... Feb 03, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
The Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup – January 2016 ReportThe Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) workgroup held its monthly call on January 26. This month’s meeting focused on CDC’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Capabilities. During the call the workgroup provided comments and feedback on PHEP Capability 5: Fatality Management and PHEP Capability 11: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions. The feedback collected will be used to... Jan 29, 2016 | Nicole Dunifon |
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