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New Funding Opportunity: Lessons in INfection Control Initiative
Through support from CDC, NACCHO is pleased to offer the LINC (Lessons in INfection Control) Initiative funding opportunity for local...
Dec 30, 2015 | Christina Baum
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: How Local Health Departments Can...
By Meredith Williams, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO On December 3, 2015, the global community commemorated the International...
Dec 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges
Suspicious Biological Outbreaks: Benefits of Conducting Joint Law Enforcement and...
By Kelly Shannon, Crim-Epi Program Manager, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD) Biological Countermeasures Combating...
Oct 15, 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
U.S. Ebola Screening Stops for Travelers from Liberia
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security announced that Liberia will be removed...
Sep 21, 2015 | Sara Chang
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 this past year,...
Jul 21, 2015 | Guest Author
CDC Releases Report Summarizing Response to 2014 Ebola Epidemic
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a multimedia report entitled, “The Road to Zero,” describing the...
Jul 14, 2015 | Stella Bartholet
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 disease news...
Jul 08, 2015 | Guest Author
NACCHO, CDC Webinar Examines Chikungunya Virus
NACCHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released an archived version of the webinar “Chikungunya in...
Jun 25, 2015 | Lisa Brown
New Funding Opportunity: Lessons in INfection Control InitiativeThrough support from CDC, NACCHO is pleased to offer the LINC (Lessons in INfection Control) Initiative funding opportunity for local health departments (LHDs). NACCHO will award at least 10 LHDs up to $25,000 each to improve both healthcare and community infection control and enhance coordination for preparing and responding to Ebola, healthcare-associated infections, and other […] Dec 30, 2015 | Christina Baum |
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: How Local Health Departments Can Promote InclusionBy Meredith Williams, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO On December 3, 2015, the global community commemorated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). This year’s theme was “Inclusion Matters: Access and Empowerment for People of All Abilities.”1 NACCHO’s Health and Disability Project Team joins the President of the United States, the United Nations (UN), and […] Dec 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
Suspicious Biological Outbreaks: Benefits of Conducting Joint Law Enforcement and Public Health InvestigationsBy Kelly Shannon, Crim-Epi Program Manager, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD) Biological Countermeasures Combating the Biological Threat In the last 30 years, there have been numerous deliberate biological threat incidents, from the Rajneeshi cult food contamination in 1984[1], to the Anthrax letters in 2001, to any number of recent ricin letter mass mailings. The […] Oct 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
Live Testing of Flu on Call™ Overlaps with the Start of Flu SeasonThis 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 |
U.S. Ebola Screening Stops for Travelers from LiberiaThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security announced that Liberia will be removed from the list of nations affected by Ebola subject to enhanced visa and port-of-entry screening effective September 21. This decision is based on a CDC determination that the risk of importation of Ebola by travelers from Liberia […] Sep 21, 2015 | Sara Chang |
How Local Health Departments are Preparing for Avian InfluenzaBy Christina Baum, Program Analyst, Infectious Disease, NACCHO Avian influenza has been a popular topic in the media this past year, and the attention on the topic boils down to two primary points of interest: 1) it has affected millions of birds and 2) the disease is similar to ones which have affected humans in […] Jul 21, 2015 | Guest Author |
CDC Releases Report Summarizing Response to 2014 Ebola EpidemicThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a multimedia report entitled, “The Road to Zero,” describing the experiences of CDC responders to the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The report uses video, information graphics, photos, and stories from the field to describe CDC’s efforts, which include tracing contacts, strengthening health care, preventing infections, mobilizing laboratories,... Jul 14, 2015 | Stella Bartholet |
What to Know about Summer Weather and Lyme DiseaseThis post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health and infectious disease news and information, visit Jul 08, 2015 | Guest Author |
NACCHO, CDC Webinar Examines Chikungunya VirusNACCHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released an archived version of the webinar “Chikungunya in the United States.” Marc Fischer, a CDC medical epidemiologist, provides information on chikungunya virus disease epidemiology, diagnosis, surveillance, and response in the United States. View the webinar or access the presentation Chikungunya, a virus... Jun 25, 2015 | Lisa Brown |
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