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23 Agencies Achieve Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) Recognition
NACCHO’s Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) recognized 30 local and regional health agencies for their ability to plan for, respond...
Jan 28, 2016 | Madison Ferraro
Submit Tools to Project Public Health Ready’s Online Toolkit
NACCHO needs your help! In an effort to provide the best technical assistance and resources to local health departments NACCHO’s...
Jan 26, 2016 | Mary Hodges
Measuring Mass Fatality Preparedness – How Does Public Health Stand Up?
Many of the catastrophic hazards that LHDs plan for have serious potential to become mass fatality events. Even in the most...
Jan 13, 2016 | Rachel Schulman
Tornado and Extreme Weather Resources
Severe weather – including tornadoes, flooding, snow, and ice – ravaged many southern and mid-western states over the Christmas...
Dec 29, 2015 | Katie Dwyer
“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
FDA Finalizes FSMA Preventative Control Rules for Human and Animal Foods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized the first two major regulations developed under the Food Safety...
Sep 10, 2015 | Katie Regan
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
Hurricane and Flooding Preparedness Resources
The arrival of hurricane season and potential impact of Hurricane Joaquin serve as a reminder that the 2,800 local health departments...
Aug 28, 2015 | Admin
Planning for Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters
By Megan Reeve, Program Officer; Autumn Downey, Program Officer; and Jack Herrmann, Senior Program Officer for the National Academy of...
Aug 21, 2015 | Mary Hodges
23 Agencies Achieve Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) RecognitionNACCHO’s Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) recognized 30 local and regional health agencies for their ability to plan for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies. Seven agencies from Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Tennessee, and Texas earned PPHR recognition for the first time, and 23 agencies from Virginia, Florida, Arizona, Minnesota, and Idaho achieved PPHR […] Jan 28, 2016 | Madison Ferraro |
Submit Tools to Project Public Health Ready’s Online ToolkitNACCHO needs your help! In an effort to provide the best technical assistance and resources to local health departments NACCHO’s Preparedness Planning, Outcomes and Measurement (PPOM) Workgroup is seeking to expand and update the Project Public Health Ready online toolkit. This toolkit serves as a repository of best practices, templates, and samples for a variety […] Jan 26, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
Measuring Mass Fatality Preparedness – How Does Public Health Stand Up?Many of the catastrophic hazards that LHDs plan for have serious potential to become mass fatality events. Even in the most well-prepared communities, events such as pandemics, chemical spills, radiation releases, mass shootings, and acts of terrorism can still result in extremely high death tolls. Moreover, it doesn’t necessarily take a large number of deaths […] Jan 13, 2016 | Rachel Schulman |
Tornado and Extreme Weather ResourcesSevere weather – including tornadoes, flooding, snow, and ice – ravaged many southern and mid-western states over the Christmas holiday weekend. NACCHO would like to extend our sympathies to the families who lost loved ones as a result of the recent storms and we wish a speedy recovery to all of the impacted communities. In […] Dec 29, 2015 | Katie Dwyer |
“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 |
FDA Finalizes FSMA Preventative Control Rules for Human and Animal FoodsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized the first two major regulations developed under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)—the Preventative Controls for Human Food and Preventative Controls for Animal Food. The FSMA, passed more than four years ago, is a broad reform of the United States’ food safety system that focuses on prevention rather than reaction. Broadly,... Sep 10, 2015 | Katie Regan |
Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary: Lessons Learned for Public HealthThis 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 |
Hurricane and Flooding Preparedness ResourcesThe arrival of hurricane season and potential impact of Hurricane Joaquin serve as a reminder that the 2,800 local health departments across our nation stand ready to help protect residents and families from all sorts of natural disasters and to play a vital role in any recovery efforts. Local health departments are life-saving first responders […] Aug 28, 2015 | Admin |
Planning for Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After DisastersBy Megan Reeve, Program Officer; Autumn Downey, Program Officer; and Jack Herrmann, Senior Program Officer for the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy Disasters often impact fundamental elements of a community—physical infrastructure, health, and social services, social connectedness—that all affect the health of its residents. Accordingly, the... Aug 21, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
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