The Preparedness Brief provides updates and information from NACCHO’s public health preparedness portfolio.
NACCHO recently released the 2018 Preparedness Profile Assessment, which describes the landscape of public health emergency...
Jan 24, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Journal of Primary Care & Community Health is seeking manuscript submissions for an upcoming Special Collection on Access to...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has released the 2018 Preparedness Profile assessment describing...
Dec 20, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) partnered with Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN) to...
Dec 14, 2018
Key Updates On Dec. 3, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency was put in place on Nov....
Dec 05, 2018
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), in collaboration with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for...
Nov 20, 2018
The New York City Medical Reserve Corps (NYC MRC) is a trained group of more than 9,000 healthcare volunteers coordinated by the NYC...
Registration is now open for the 2019 Preparedness Summit! Save $100 by registering before Feb. 8, 2019. The summit will take place...
Oct 31, 2018
Anti-Semitic acts have been increasing in the U.S., fueled by careless, incendiary, and conspiracy-fueled political and hate speech...
Oct 31, 2018 | Andrea Grenadier
NACCHO recently released the 2018 Preparedness Profile Assessment, which describes the landscape of public health emergency preparedness across the United States. The findings reinforce that, as the threat environment in our nation evolves, it’s more important than ever to equip preparedness professionals with the knowledge, resources, and relationships needed to prepare for and respond to...
The Journal of Primary Care & Community Health is seeking manuscript submissions for an upcoming Special Collection on Access to Care During Disasters for America’s Underserved Communities. Recent disasters have disrupted or displaced many vulnerable people and similar events are expected to increase in frequency. For this Special Collection, we would particularly like to include...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has released the 2018 Preparedness Profile assessment describing the landscape of public health emergency preparedness across the United States. The assessment gathers information about preparedness trends and emerging issues at local health departments (LHDs) to provide an evidentiary foundation for future public health...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) partnered with Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN) to identify, understand and address the gaps in public health, healthcare, and radiation control regarding outreach, training, and programmatic activities. During the 2017-2018 project year, NACCHO and RITN convened a subset of key stakeholders from these industries to...
Key Updates On Dec. 3, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency was put in place on Nov. 30 in Alaska due to earthquakes. Presidential Major Disaster Declaration on Nov. 30 A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck seven miles north of Anchorage, Ala. on Nov. 30. Hundreds of aftershocks have occurred since […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), in collaboration with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), recently conducted a needs assessment of local health department and healthcare cybersecurity preparedness to better understand the gaps and challenges that impedes cybersecurity preparedness planning. Major gaps included lack of...
The New York City Medical Reserve Corps (NYC MRC) is a trained group of more than 9,000 healthcare volunteers coordinated by the NYC Health Department. The NYC MRC stood up in 2004 in direct response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent anthrax threat. Originally a disaster response organization, the NYC MRC expanded its […]
Registration is now open for the 2019 Preparedness Summit! Save $100 by registering before Feb. 8, 2019. The summit will take place March 26-29 at America’s Center Convention Complex (St. Louis Convention Center) in St. Louis, Mo. This year’s theme is “Preparedness Summit 2019: The Evolving Threat Environment.” Participating in the 2019 Preparedness Summit is an […]
Anti-Semitic acts have been increasing in the U.S., fueled by careless, incendiary, and conspiracy-fueled political and hate speech that demonizes not only Jews, but Muslims, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and people of color.
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