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

Flu Near You: A Guide to Engaging in Participatory Disease Surveillance

NACCHO has created the new guide, “Flu Near You: A Guide to Engaging in Participatory Disease...

Oct 27, 2015 | Admin

Live Testing of Flu on Call™ Overlaps with the Start of Flu Season

This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and...

Oct 08, 2015 | Mary Hodges

How Local Health Departments are Preparing for Avian Influenza

By Christina Baum, Program Analyst, Infectious Disease, NACCHO  Avian influenza has been a popular topic in the media...

Jul 21, 2015 | Guest Author

What to Know about Summer Weather and Lyme Disease

This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health and infectious...

Jul 08, 2015 | Guest Author

Local Health Department Engages in Pharmacy Preparedness Exercise

By Mary Wakefield, Intern, Environmental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Catastrophic Response, NACCHO For most...

Jun 25, 2015 | Guest Author

CDC Develops Medical Countermeasure Inventory Data Exchange

By Barbara Nichols, CDC Office of Public Health Scientific Services, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and...

Jun 11, 2015 | Guest Author

Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance: A Local Report from the Front Line

By Jennifer Gutowski, MPH, CIC, Surveillance Coordinator, Philadelphia Department of Public Health The Philadelphia...

May 27, 2015 | Guest Author

How Local Health Departments Can Use “Flu Near You”

This year’s flu season might be winding down, but the 2015-2016 flu season is right around the corner. Local health...

May 06, 2015 | Admin

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...

May 04, 2015 | Guest Author

Apply for the Summer 2015 Local Public Health Policy Scholar Program

As the 2014-2015 academic year concludes, NACCHO’s Local Public Health Policy and Practice Scholars Program completed a...

Apr 01, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon

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Water Fountain
  • COVID-19
  • Tools & Resources
  • Water Quality

Purdue University’s New Water Systems Course Designed to...

Purdue is partnering with NACCHO to offer this online course at a discount for...

Dec 04, 2020 | Emily D'Angelo

Purdue University’s New Water Systems Course Designed to...

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  • Emergency Response
  • Infectious Disease
  • Opportunity

National Student Response Network Linking Volunteers to...

The National Student Response Network (NSRN) is fielding the volunteer needs of...

May 20, 2020 | Kim Rodgers

National Student Response Network Linking Volunteers to...

2020 04 27 15 21 31 COVID 19 Alternate Care Site Resources ASPR TRACIE
  • Emergency Response
  • Infectious Disease

COVID-19 Alternate Care Site Resources

ASPR TRACIE has just released COVID-19 Alternate Care Site Resources, a...

Apr 22, 2020 | Kim Rodgers

COVID-19 Alternate Care Site Resources

  • Tools & Resources
  • Infectious Disease

AMA Telehealth Implementation Playbook

During a pandemic, healthcare facilities may need telehealth/medicine...

Apr 21, 2020 | Kim Rodgers

AMA Telehealth Implementation Playbook

2020 04 27 15 54 18 Public Health COVID 19 Online Community
  • Communications & Public Relations
  • Emergency Response
  • Infectious Disease

NNPHI Launches COVID-19 Learning & Action Collaborative

The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) has launched a...

Apr 21, 2020 | Kim Rodgers

NNPHI Launches COVID-19 Learning & Action Collaborative

  • Tools & Resources
  • Infectious Disease

Penn State Project ECHO: COVID-19 ECHO Series

Penn State Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) has...

Mar 31, 2020 | Kim Rodgers

Penn State Project ECHO: COVID-19 ECHO Series

  • COVID-19
  • Tools & Resources
  • Infectious Disease
  • Podcast

CIDRAP: COVID-19 Podcasts and Webinars

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy has a running archive of...

Mar 31, 2020 | Kim Rodgers

CIDRAP: COVID-19 Podcasts and Webinars

  • Research & Reports

42nd Annual Report on the Health of the Nation

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the CDC released its 42nd...

Nov 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers

42nd Annual Report on the Health of the Nation

  • Call for Comments
  • Opioid Overdose Epidemic

Call for Comments: Community-Based Response to Drug...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has sent a New Project...

Oct 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers

Call for Comments: Community-Based Response to Drug...

  • Community Engagement

Article: Engaging with Community- and Faith-Based...

Dr. Scott Santibanez, Associate Director for Science for CDC’s Division in...

Sep 17, 2019 | Kim Rodgers

Article: Engaging with Community- and Faith-Based...

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The Word on Local Health Departments is a blog by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).

The Essential Elements of Local Public Health

The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
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