Exercise Resources Released for Pandemic Medical Countermeasure Risk Communications

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security released an exercise scenario resource that examines risk communication challenges that...

Oct 25, 2017 | Raymond Puerini

  • Funding Opportunity—Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health...

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Cooperative Agreement for...

    Oct 12, 2017

  • Healthcare Ready Releases 2017 Nationwide Preparedness Poll Results

    Healthcare Ready recently released results and findings from their second annual nationwide poll on Americans’ attitudes towards...

    Jun 27, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

  • Being Prepared to Respond

    By Sarah Summers, MPH, NACCHO Senior Program Analyst In commemoration of National Preparedness Month, the Centers for Disease Control...

    Sep 08, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman

  • Community Planning Framework Available to Help with Medical Surge Planning

    Medical surge – defined by the CDC as “the ability of a healthcare system to provide adequate medical care during events that exceed...

    Apr 07, 2016 | Stephen Maheux

  • 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

  • NACCHO Releases 2015 Network Profile of the Medical Reserve Corps

    On November 2, NACCHO released the 2015 Network Profile of the Medical Reserve Corps report, a comprehensive look at the Medical...

    Nov 11, 2015 | Mary Hodges

  • 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 information, visit...

    Oct 08, 2015 | Mary Hodges

  • Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary: Lessons Learned for Public Health

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

    Sep 03, 2015 | Mary Hodges

  • Exercise Resources Released for Pandemic Medical Countermeasure Risk Communications

    The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security released an exercise scenario resource that examines risk communication challenges that could occur when medical countermeasures (MCMs) are provided during pandemics. The SPARS Pandemic Scenario book describes an outbreak scenario in the future when a coronavirus spreads throughput the United States and more than 40 countries over a three-year […]

    Oct 25, 2017 | Raymond Puerini

    Funding Opportunity—Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response. CDC provides funding to enhance the Nation’s ability to mobilize and respond to specific public health emergencies, including infectious disease outbreaks, pandemics, and other public health emergencies that exceed...

    Oct 12, 2017

    Healthcare Ready Releases 2017 Nationwide Preparedness Poll Results

    Healthcare Ready recently released results and findings from their second annual nationwide poll on Americans’ attitudes towards disasters and preparedness. The poll of over 1,000 adults showed, among other findings, that Americans fear natural disasters affecting their communities more than terrorism, global pandemic or cyber-attack combined and are split over who is responsible for...

    Jun 27, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

    Being Prepared to Respond

    By Sarah Summers, MPH, NACCHO Senior Program Analyst In commemoration of National Preparedness Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is highlighting five themes for each week of September, emphasizing the various aspects of effective preparedness. Each week, the NACCHO Preparedness team is authoring a blog to promote the theme and provide local health […]

    Sep 08, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman

    Community Planning Framework Available to Help with Medical Surge Planning

    Medical surge – defined by the CDC as “the ability of a healthcare system to provide adequate medical care during events that exceed the limits of the normal medical infrastructure of an affected community” – is a major concern among the healthcare community during a natural disaster, disease outbreak, or act of terrorism. While many […]

    Apr 07, 2016 | Stephen Maheux

    Capturing Patient and Vaccine Information at Mass Vaccination Clinics – A Catalog of Electronic Technologies

    By 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

    NACCHO Releases 2015 Network Profile of the Medical Reserve Corps

    On November 2, NACCHO released the 2015 Network Profile of the Medical Reserve Corps report, a comprehensive look at the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) network. The Medical Reserve Corps is a national network of more than 200,000 local volunteers dedicated to the safety, preparedness, and health of their communities. The MRC was created after the […]

    Nov 11, 2015 | Mary Hodges

    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 information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/.  By Erin Roberts, MPH, Program Analyst, Environmental Health and Global Health Security, NACCHO and Christina Baum, Program Analyst, Infectious Disease, NACCHO Influenza viruses cause illness year round, but ‘flu’ season begins...

    Oct 08, 2015 | Mary Hodges

    Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary: Lessons Learned for Public Health

    This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/.  By Katie Regan, Communications Specialist, NACCHO Ten years ago on Saturday, August 29, just before dawn, Hurricane Katrina spun out of the sea and landed on American soil, forever altering the human and environmental landscape...

    Sep 03, 2015 | Mary Hodges

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