The Preparedness Brief provides updates and information from NACCHO’s public health preparedness portfolio.
America’s hometown heroes are on the front line when responding to biological incidents. These include health care providers, public...
Oct 26, 2018
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and...
Oct 24, 2018
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently released the Rural and Frontier Healthcare Coalitions:...
Oct 15, 2018
NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, invites your agency to contribute to the advancement of our...
Oct 12, 2018
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) worked with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)...
Oct 11, 2018
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between...
Oct 02, 2018
You may have heard about Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) in passing from colleagues over the years. But what exactly is the program...
Sep 28, 2018
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has spent the last year working with partners from across...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and...
America’s hometown heroes are on the front line when responding to biological incidents. These include health care providers, public health professionals, EMTs, firefighters and police. But a new report from the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense says the thousands of first responders at state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments that form the backbone […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Radiation Studies Section, is seeking information on upcoming state and/or regional preparedness meetings or conferences to identify potential sites to host a technical assistance and capacity building workshop on radiation preparedness. The workshop...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently released the Rural and Frontier Healthcare Coalitions: A Preparedness and Response Snapshot fact sheet. NACCHO conducted key informant interviews with rural and frontier healthcare coalitions (HCC) from nine states to document the responsibilities, capabilities, and challenges of coalitions in these areas. The findings...
NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, invites your agency to contribute to the advancement of our national health security by submitting an abstract for the 2019 Preparedness Summit (March 26-29, 2019 in St. Louis, Mo.). Now more than ever, the public health preparedness community must come together to discover new and creative […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) worked with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to publish a “dispatch” in NACCHO’s From the Field column in the journal Health Security. The report details NYC DOHMH’s reflections on the first-ever public health deployments in support of Puerto Rico and the U.S. […]
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help local health departments (LHDs) build their preparedness capacity through a continuous quality improvement model. Here are the top...
You may have heard about Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) in passing from colleagues over the years. But what exactly is the program about? PPHR is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has spent the last year working with partners from across Puerto Rico, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other HHS divisions, and other federal agencies to strengthen health and social services as organizations recover from Maria and build new plans so they are […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have continually worked together to increase the capacity of local health departments (LHDs) to prepare for radiation emergencies and to increase LHD awareness and access to tools, strategies, and other resources related to local […]
Create an account or login to MyNACCHO and go to "My Subscriptions."
Calendar
With the rise of AI comes the opportunity to unlock its full potential to better serve communities and advance health equity.
Register
Join NACCHO and CredibleMind as we explore the transformative impact of community screening and triage of mental health and substance use disorders.
This 3-part webinar series will discuss evidence-informed suicide prevention strategies for LHDs across the three levels of prevention.
Join CDC’s Office of Health Equity and our partners to learn about the importance of health equity in emergency response and preparedness.
Join the emergency management community in Colorado Springs, Colorado from Nov. 15-21 to explore the theme, “Emergency Management Ascending.
A Call to build connection across the LHO community, ensure timely updates, and allow for discussion with federal partners on a regular basis.
Convenes public health leaders, faculty, students & members of public health community to strengthen education, practice & research in public health.
Join the first and longest-running national conference on public health preparedness, April 29-2, 2025, in San Antonio, TX.
Dec 15, 2022 | Nicholas Holmes
Purdue is partnering with NACCHO to offer this online course at a discount for local health departments.
Dec 04, 2020 | Emily D'Angelo
The National Student Response Network (NSRN) is fielding the volunteer needs of hospitals and public health departments and aims to...
May 20, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
ASPR TRACIE has just released COVID-19 Alternate Care Site Resources, a collection of new resources that can help stakeholders address...
Apr 22, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
During a pandemic, healthcare facilities may need telehealth/medicine capabilities. Telehealth policies help to prevent potential...
Apr 21, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) has launched a COVID-19 Learning & Action Collaborative to move beyond...
This blog embodies NACCHO's mission to empower local health departments and drive positive change.
The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Stories from the Field provides a means for local health departments to share their experiences and demonstrate the value of public health.
The NACCHO website uses cookies to offer our visitors a better browsing experience, to analyze our website traffic, and to present personalized content; cookies are small data files that are attached to your computer when you visit websites. You can read about how we use cookies by clicking on the "details" button below. If you continue to use this website, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
