The Preparedness Brief provides updates and information from NACCHO’s public health preparedness portfolio.
NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, invites your agency to contribute to the advancement of our...
Oct 12, 2018
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) worked with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)...
Oct 11, 2018
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between...
Oct 02, 2018
You may have heard about Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) in passing from colleagues over the years. But what exactly is the program...
Sep 28, 2018
NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, recently invited your agency to contribute to the advancement...
Sep 27, 2018
Sep 06, 2018
The final plenary session “A Troubling Gap: Why Cyber Security Matters to Public Health Emergency Preparedness” wrapped up the 2018...
Jul 23, 2018
The second plenary session convened leaders from the U.S. government to discuss their visions for a more resilient nation. Dr. Umair...
Jun 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Last year, Oakland County Health Division in Pontiac, Mich. won one of five National Health Security Awards. The National Association...
May 23, 2018
NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, invites your agency to contribute to the advancement of our national health security by submitting an abstract for the 2019 Preparedness Summit (March 26-29, 2019 in St. Louis, Mo.). Now more than ever, the public health preparedness community must come together to discover new and creative […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) worked with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to publish a “dispatch” in NACCHO’s From the Field column in the journal Health Security. The report details NYC DOHMH’s reflections on the first-ever public health deployments in support of Puerto Rico and the U.S. […]
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help local health departments (LHDs) build their preparedness capacity through a continuous quality improvement model. Here are the top...
You may have heard about Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) in passing from colleagues over the years. But what exactly is the program about? PPHR is a criteria-based training and recognition program created through a cooperate agreement between the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, recently invited your agency to contribute to the advancement of our national health security by submitting an abstract for the 2019 Preparedness Summit (March 26-29, 2019 in St. Louis, Mo.). We have extended the abstract submission deadline to Friday, Oct. 12, 11:59 p.m., ET, to encourage you to participate in the longest...
The final plenary session “A Troubling Gap: Why Cyber Security Matters to Public Health Emergency Preparedness” wrapped up the 2018 Preparedness Summit at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. with a panel discussion on why cyberattacks is a public health concern. In this interactive session, moderator Stephen Curren, director, Division of Resilience, Office of Emergency […]
The second plenary session convened leaders from the U.S. government to discuss their visions for a more resilient nation. Dr. Umair Shah, executive director of Harris County Public Health, moderated the session. Shah kicked off the session with this observation, “There is one certainty. [Extraordinary] events will occur and we need to be ready when […]
Last year, Oakland County Health Division in Pontiac, Mich. won one of five National Health Security Awards. The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) partnered with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to recognize local health departments that have demonstrated significant accomplishments in implementing health security-related...
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