The Preparedness Brief provides updates and information from NACCHO’s public health preparedness portfolio.
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), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and...
Sep 28, 2018
Late-breaking sessions were designed to cover important, emerging topics at the forefront of the public health landscape. The first...
Jun 11, 2018
State and local health departments have a responsibility to protect the health and safety of the populations they serve following a...
Jun 05, 2018
Radiation topics make headlines in the national media on a regular basis, yet radiation is not always a topic that is prioritized in...
May 29, 2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released the Radiation Hazard Scale to help state and local...
May 07, 2018
The 2018 Preparedness Summit is just days away! The summit will take place April 17-20 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. This year...
Join us at the 2018 Preparedness Summit to participate in the first and longest running national conference on public health...
Apr 06, 2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released the CRC eTool, a new tool for epidemiologists and other public...
Feb 23, 2018 | Raymond Puerini
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), 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 […]
Late-breaking sessions were designed to cover important, emerging topics at the forefront of the public health landscape. The first session covered radiation risk. As the country enters a new phase of social and political threats, the need to build the capability to rise to larger, more complex events, such as radiological or nuclear events, heightens. […]
State and local health departments have a responsibility to protect the health and safety of the populations they serve following a radiological event. In addition, jurisdictions may be asked to monitor, decontaminate, and shelter displaced populations that evacuate to their region from impacted areas in the event of a large-scale radiological event. While there are […]
Radiation topics make headlines in the national media on a regular basis, yet radiation is not always a topic that is prioritized in public health preparedness efforts. In the 2016 Preparedness Profile Assessment, 30 percent of local public health preparedness coordinators indicated accidental nuclear/radiation releases were among the top three threats they were least prepared […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released the Radiation Hazard Scale to help state and local jurisdictions describe the health risks associated with radiation exposure following a radiological emergency. The Radiation Hazard Scale, designed to be an easy-to-use communication tool to help persons unfamiliar with radiation health effects understand radiation risk and...
The 2018 Preparedness Summit is just days away! The summit will take place April 17-20 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. This year at the summit, there will be a wide range of sessions and workshops available, including sessions on radiation preparedness. The summit will feature a radiation Track, consisting of three sessions and […]
Join us at the 2018 Preparedness Summit to participate in the first and longest running national conference on public health preparedness. The summit will take place April 17-20 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. This year’s theme is “Strengthening National Health Security: Mastering Ordinary Responses, Building Resilience for Extraordinary Events.” We are pleased to announce...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released the CRC eTool, a new tool for epidemiologists and other public health professionals to use following a radiation emergency. A radiation incident affecting a large population will require local response authorities to establish one or more population monitoring and decontamination facilities to assess people for radiation...
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