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Incident Management Workgroup July Report
The Incident Management Workgroup held its first monthly call of the project year on July 28. Throughout the month, the workgroup has...
Aug 01, 2014 | Rachel Schulman
Using Closed PODs to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Sara Dinga, Public Health Emergency Response Coordinator at the Washoe County Health District (NV), is working to better prepare...
Jul 03, 2014 | Erin Roberts
Mission Ready Packages Advisory Group Meeting
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) convened its Mission Ready Packages Advisory Group May 20-21 in...
Jun 03, 2014 | Scott Fisher
Public Health Law Workgroup March Report
This month, NACCHO’s Public Health Law Workgroup held a joint workgroup meeting with the Association of State and Territorial Health...
Mar 27, 2014 | Guest Author
Public Health Informatics Opportunity: HSIP and I-TIPP Host Site Application Period...
NACCHO is working with the CDC, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), ASTHO, and the Public Health Informatics...
Feb 24, 2014 | Frances Bevington
Incident Management Workgroup January Report
NACCHO’s Incident Management Workgroup held two calls this month. The first, on Jan. 6, was an abbreviated call to go over the...
Jan 31, 2014 | Rachel Schulman
Strategic National Stockpile Project January Report
NACCHO is currently organizing a point-of-dispensing (POD) demonstration via lunch at the 2014 Preparedness Summit. To plan for the...
Jan 30, 2014 | Lisa Brown
ASTHO/NEMA EMAC Advisory Committee and Joint Policy Workgroup Meetings
Date: December 17-18, 2013 Staff Representative: Scott Fisher Member Representative: John Degnan (Dec 18) Highlights: The National...
Jan 10, 2014 | Scott Fisher
National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference
Dec 18, 2013 | Naomi Rennard
Incident Management Workgroup July ReportThe Incident Management Workgroup held its first monthly call of the project year on July 28. Throughout the month, the workgroup has been providing feedback to the National Emergency Management Association and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) regarding mission ready packages for public health. Part of the call was spent bringing […] Aug 01, 2014 | Rachel Schulman |
Using Closed PODs to Protect Critical InfrastructureSara Dinga, Public Health Emergency Response Coordinator at the Washoe County Health District (NV), is working to better prepare Washoe County for a pandemic through the use of closed Points of Dispensing (PODs) which target vital services employees. Closed PODs are defined as public and private locations that have agreed to dispense medications, generally during […] Jul 03, 2014 | Erin Roberts |
Mission Ready Packages Advisory Group MeetingThe Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) convened its Mission Ready Packages Advisory Group May 20-21 in Arlington, VA. The purpose of the meeting was to conduct a detailed review of ten public health response mission ready packages that could be offered through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. The packages reviewed dealt with […] Jun 03, 2014 | Scott Fisher |
Public Health Law Workgroup March ReportThis month, NACCHO’s Public Health Law Workgroup held a joint workgroup meeting with the Association of State and Territorial Health Official’s (ASTHO) Public Health Law Workgroup. NACCHO and ASTHO members from across the country came together for a discussion of issues relevant to the practice of public health law at both the state and local […] Mar 27, 2014 | Guest Author |
Public Health Informatics Opportunity: HSIP and I-TIPP Host Site Application Period is OpenNACCHO is working with the CDC, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), ASTHO, and the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) to provide capacity-building support to a series of CDC-sponsored informatics fellowships that will support public health and health care integration at the state and local level. Host Site applications are now being accepted from state and... Feb 24, 2014 | Frances Bevington |
Incident Management Workgroup January ReportNACCHO’s Incident Management Workgroup held two calls this month. The first, on Jan. 6, was an abbreviated call to go over the process and responsibilities for conducting reviews of applications submitted to NACCHO’s Model Practices program. Workgroup members were assigned one to two applications on incident management-related topics to review by the end of January. […] Jan 31, 2014 | Rachel Schulman |
Strategic National Stockpile Project January ReportNACCHO is currently organizing a point-of-dispensing (POD) demonstration via lunch at the 2014 Preparedness Summit. To plan for the POD demonstration, an ad-hoc workgroup has formed of 28 volunteers from the Medical Countermeasures (MCM) Workgroup, numerous local health departments from around the country, and CDC’s Division of the Strategic National Stockpile. The overall aim of […] Jan 30, 2014 | Lisa Brown |
ASTHO/NEMA EMAC Advisory Committee and Joint Policy Workgroup MeetingsDate: December 17-18, 2013 Staff Representative: Scott Fisher Member Representative: John Degnan (Dec 18) Highlights: The National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) convened its Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) Advisory Committee and Joint Policy Workgroup on consecutive days. The membership of these groups includes representatives from Federal agencies, national associations,... Jan 10, 2014 | Scott Fisher |
National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness ConferenceDec 18, 2013 | Naomi Rennard |
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