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Environmental Health and Operational Conditions in Emergency Shelters
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit...
Oct 28, 2015 | Mary Hodges
The Role of Local Public Health in Healthcare Critical Infrastructure Protection
Continuity of healthcare and public health services are critical to response and recovery following a disaster or emergency....
Oct 21, 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
“Regional Disaster Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes”: Summary of a...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has released “Regional Disaster Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes: Summary of a...
Sep 16, 2015 | Admin
Making the Case for Surge Planning: Using Healthcare Coalitions as a Framework
By Geoffrey Mwaungulu, JD, MPH, Program Analyst, NACCHO and Stacy Stanford, MSPH, Senior Program Analyst, NACCHO During 2014, the...
Jul 29, 2015 | Geoffrey Mwaungulu, Jr.
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
How Local Health Departments Utilize PHEP Funding When Preparing For and Responding...
Since 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant has provided...
Jun 24, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon
Surge Management Workgroup May Report
The Surge Management Workgroup held its monthly call on May 26. During this conference call members discussed potential topics for...
Jun 02, 2015 | Geoffrey Mwaungulu, Jr.
Surge Management Workgroup March Report
The Surge Management Workgroup held its March call on the 23rd. During this conference call members discussed and reviewed...
Apr 08, 2015 | Geoffrey Mwaungulu, Jr.
Environmental Health and Operational Conditions in Emergency SheltersThis post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. By Chris Mills, Senior Program Assistant, NACCHO A controversial topic dominating news media in recent months has been the immense wave of Syrian refugees entering European and Middle Eastern nations for safety from the conflict... Oct 28, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
The Role of Local Public Health in Healthcare Critical Infrastructure ProtectionContinuity of healthcare and public health services are critical to response and recovery following a disaster or emergency. Strengthening and protecting healthcare and public critical infrastructure requires coordinated preparedness planning and response among public and private sector stakeholders. To better understand the role of local health departments (LHDs) in healthcare and public health... Oct 21, 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 |
“Regional Disaster Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes”: Summary of a Workshop Series from the Institute of MedicineThe Institute of Medicine (IOM) has released “Regional Disaster Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes: Summary of a Workshop Series.” This report series features summaries from three regional Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events workshops hosted by IOM in 2014. The workshops explored opportunities to strengthen the regional coordination... Sep 16, 2015 | Admin |
Making the Case for Surge Planning: Using Healthcare Coalitions as a FrameworkBy Geoffrey Mwaungulu, JD, MPH, Program Analyst, NACCHO and Stacy Stanford, MSPH, Senior Program Analyst, NACCHO During 2014, the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events organized a series of workshops tasked with identifying opportunities to strengthen regional coordination to ensure effective medical and public health response to... Jul 29, 2015 | Geoffrey Mwaungulu, Jr. |
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 |
How Local Health Departments Utilize PHEP Funding When Preparing For and Responding to a Public Health EmergencySince 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant has provided support to public health departments across the nation, allowing them to build and strengthen their ability to respond to public health threats. At the local level, this investment has enabled local health departments (LHDs) and their partners […] Jun 24, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon |
Surge Management Workgroup May ReportThe Surge Management Workgroup held its monthly call on May 26. During this conference call members discussed potential topics for future blog posts related to the Surge Management Workgroup activities for the NACCHO Preparedness Brief Blog. NACCHO will work with workgroup members to develop a blog post related to its March 2015 webinar entitled: “Medical […] Jun 02, 2015 | Geoffrey Mwaungulu, Jr. |
Surge Management Workgroup March ReportThe Surge Management Workgroup held its March call on the 23rd. During this conference call members discussed and reviewed evaluations stemming from the March 11, 2015 Surge Management Workgroup webinar on the intersection between local public health and healthcare coalitions. After these discussions the workgroup held a conversation on potential activities for the immediate future. […] Apr 08, 2015 | Geoffrey Mwaungulu, Jr. |
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