Suspicious Biological Outbreaks: Benefits of Conducting Joint Law Enforcement and...

By Kelly Shannon, Crim-Epi Program Manager, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD) Biological Countermeasures  Combating...

Oct 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges

  • One Year into Ebola: A Look Back at the First Case Diagnosed in the U.S. and the...

    One year ago, on September 30, 2014, the CDC announced the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States in a person who traveled...

    Sep 30, 2015 | Sara Chang

  • CDC Releases Training Schedule for Upcoming Year

    Registration is now open for the fall quarter Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Preparedness Course and the Mass Antibiotic...

    Aug 13, 2015 | Raymond Puerini

  • Updates for Avian Influenza Preparedness

    On May 1, Iowa governor Terry Branstad declared a state of emergency to address the rising toll that avian influenza is taking on the...

    May 04, 2015 | Guest Author

  • NACCHO Funds 43 Innovative Community Projects through MRC Challenge Award

    by Tahlia Gousse, Senior Program Analyst, Public Health Preparedness and Katie Roulston, Program Associate, Public Health Preparedness...

    Mar 18, 2015 | Tahlia Gousse

  • New Article Encourages Preparedness Professionals to Gain Skills, Not Stuff

    In a new article authored for Domestic Preparedness, Andrew Roszak, senior director for environmental health, pandemic preparedness,...

    Mar 12, 2015 | Katie Regan

  • The PHTC Network’s Collective Role in Helping the Public Health Workforce Prepare...

    The Region IV Public Health Training Center (PHTC) has posted the webinar recording, “The PHTC Network’s Collective Role in...

    Feb 06, 2015 | Admin

  • Emergency Preparedness Funding and Ebola: A Look into the Efforts Being Made by a...

    Infectious diseases continue to pose a threat to communities, with Ebola being in the spotlight over the last six months. The threat...

    Jan 29, 2015 | Katie Dwyer

  • Supplemental Ebola Funding for State and Local Health Departments

    The outbreak in West Africa represents the largest Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in history. While there have only been a few...

    Jan 20, 2015 | Katie Dwyer

  • Suspicious Biological Outbreaks: Benefits of Conducting Joint Law Enforcement and Public Health Investigations

    By Kelly Shannon, Crim-Epi Program Manager, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD) Biological Countermeasures  Combating the Biological Threat In the last 30 years, there have been numerous deliberate biological threat incidents, from the Rajneeshi cult food contamination in 1984[1], to the Anthrax letters in 2001, to any number of recent ricin letter mass mailings.  The […]

    Oct 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges

    One Year into Ebola: A Look Back at the First Case Diagnosed in the U.S. and the Subsequent Public Health Response

    One year ago, on September 30, 2014, the CDC announced the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States in a person who traveled to Dallas from Liberia. In the following months, local health departments, in coordination with many other federal, state, and local organizations, developed preparedness plans to respond to the emerging threat of […]

    Sep 30, 2015 | Sara Chang

    CDC Releases Training Schedule for Upcoming Year

    Registration is now open for the fall quarter Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Preparedness Course and the Mass Antibiotic Dispensing Train-the-Trainer (MADT) Course.  The courses are hosted by the CDC’s Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS) in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at its Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) campus in Anniston, AL....

    Aug 13, 2015 | Raymond Puerini

    Updates for Avian Influenza Preparedness

    On May 1, Iowa governor Terry Branstad declared a state of emergency to address the rising toll that avian influenza is taking on the state’s poultry industry. Since December 2014, there have been several reports of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) infections in U.S. domestic poultry (both backyard and commercial flocks), captive wild birds, and wild birds […]

    May 04, 2015 | Guest Author

    NACCHO Funds 43 Innovative Community Projects through MRC Challenge Award

    by Tahlia Gousse, Senior Program Analyst, Public Health Preparedness and Katie Roulston, Program Associate, Public Health Preparedness NACCHO, in partnership with the Division of Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps (DCVMRC), has selected 43 Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) units to receive 2014-2015 NACCHO MRC Challenge Awards. More than 175 MRC units across the country applied for […]

    Mar 18, 2015 | Tahlia Gousse

    New Article Encourages Preparedness Professionals to Gain Skills, Not Stuff

    In a new article authored for Domestic Preparedness, Andrew Roszak, senior director for environmental health, pandemic preparedness, and catastrophic response at NACCHO, encourages preparedness professionals to stop measuring their readiness by the amount of stuff stockpiled, and to instead measure it by capacity to recognize triggers, activate systems, and perform essential tasks. Additionally,...

    Mar 12, 2015 | Katie Regan

    The PHTC Network’s Collective Role in Helping the Public Health Workforce Prepare for and Respond to Infectious Diseases: What We’ve Learned from Ebola

    The Region IV Public Health Training Center (PHTC) has posted the webinar recording, “The PHTC Network’s Collective Role in Helping the Public Health Workforce Prepare for and Respond to Infectious Diseases: What We’ve Learned from Ebola.” This webinar features speakers from NACCHO, CDC, and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and provides an […]

    Feb 06, 2015 | Admin

    Emergency Preparedness Funding and Ebola: A Look into the Efforts Being Made by a Rural Local Health Department in Ector County, Texas

    Infectious diseases continue to pose a threat to communities, with Ebola being in the spotlight over the last six months. The threat of Ebola has also increased attention on local health departments and their role in preparing for and responding to emerging infectious diseases. To better understand how local health departments are utilizing preparedness funding […]

    Jan 29, 2015 | Katie Dwyer

    Supplemental Ebola Funding for State and Local Health Departments

    The outbreak in West Africa represents the largest Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in history. While there have only been a few cases in the United States, and the risk of an outbreak in the United States is low, the public health and healthcare communities have, and continue to, implement steps to prevent, prepare for, […]

    Jan 20, 2015 | Katie Dwyer

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