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Call for Abstracts: 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference
The abstract period for the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference is officially open for submissions! To support this year’s...
Feb 06, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
24 Agencies Achieve Project Public Health Ready Recognition
This month, NACCHO’s Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) program recognized or re-recognized 24 local and regional health agencies for...
Jan 22, 2018
Project Public Health Ready’s New Support Response Agency Criteria Now Includes...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) kicked off the Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) program in...
Jan 16, 2018
Rural Public Health Preparedness Collaborative Inaugural Meeting (January 2018)
The Rural Public Health Preparedness Collaborative (the “Collaborative”) held its first meeting on January 8, 2018. The...
Jan 10, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
Ready or Not? TFAH Releases 2017 Assessment of Public Health Preparedness
In the world of preparedness and response, 2017 was marked by several historic and catastrophic incidents. Hurricanes took center...
Jan 09, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) Host Site and Associate Applications Now Open
The Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) is accepting host site and associate applications this month. The next PHAP class will...
Jan 03, 2018
Why Local Health Departments Should Participate in the Project Public Health Ready...
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR), a criteria-based training and recognition program, helps local health departments (LHDs) develop...
Oct 30, 2017
National Preparedness Month Spotlight: Administrative Preparedness
Throughout National Preparedness Month, many local health departments will remind their communities about the importance of personal...
Sep 19, 2017 | Katie Dwyer
Now Recruiting: NACCHO Health & Disability Fellowship Program
NACCHO is currently seeking two graduate students to become the newest Health and Disability fellows The NACCHO Health and Disability...
Aug 02, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Call for Abstracts: 2018 Public Health Informatics ConferenceThe abstract period for the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference is officially open for submissions! To support this year’s theme, Connecting Systems and People to Improve Population Health, abstracts will be accepted under the following topic areas: Information Systems Governance Informatics Workforce and Leadership Development Innovations and Novel Applications Informatics-Based Solutions... Feb 06, 2018 | Katie Dwyer |
24 Agencies Achieve Project Public Health Ready RecognitionThis month, NACCHO’s Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) program recognized or re-recognized 24 local and regional health agencies for their ability to plan for, respond to and recover from public health emergencies. Nine agencies from Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Utah, Virginia, Texas and North Carolina earned PPHR recognition for the first time, and 15 agencies from […] Jan 22, 2018 |
Project Public Health Ready’s New Support Response Agency Criteria Now Includes Regional Agency ModelsThe National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) kicked off the Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) program in 2003. PPHR criteria aligns to three goals: 1) All-hazards Preparedness Planning; 2) Workforce Capacity Development; and 3) Demonstration of Readiness through Exercise or Real Event. The original criteria was designed to assess a primary response […] Jan 16, 2018 |
Rural Public Health Preparedness Collaborative Inaugural Meeting (January 2018)The Rural Public Health Preparedness Collaborative (the “Collaborative”) held its first meeting on January 8, 2018. The Collaborative was established to provide a forum for local health departments from rural and frontier communities to collaborate, network, and inform national preparedness policy and practice. The Collaborative members include 20 individuals representing local and... Jan 10, 2018 | Katie Dwyer |
Ready or Not? TFAH Releases 2017 Assessment of Public Health PreparednessIn the world of preparedness and response, 2017 was marked by several historic and catastrophic incidents. Hurricanes took center stage causing severe flooding, infrastructure damage, injury, and in some cases, loss of life, in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and throughout the Caribbean and gulf coast. The western United States also contended […] Jan 09, 2018 | Katie Dwyer |
Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) Host Site and Associate Applications Now OpenThe Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) is accepting host site and associate applications this month. The next PHAP class will start in October 2018. PHAP is a two-year, competitive, paid training program for early-career, public health professionals. Associates are employed by CDC and work in state, tribal, local, and territorial public health departments; nongovernmental organizations;... Jan 03, 2018 |
Why Local Health Departments Should Participate in the Project Public Health Ready ProgramProject Public Health Ready (PPHR), a criteria-based training and recognition program, helps local health departments (LHDs) develop core public health, emergency preparedness competencies. NACCHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established this intensive 18-month program to provide LHDs the structure to build training and preparedness capacities using a continuous... Oct 30, 2017 |
National Preparedness Month Spotlight: Administrative PreparednessThroughout National Preparedness Month, many local health departments will remind their communities about the importance of personal and family preparedness. NACCHO encourages local health departments (LHDs) to also take the opportunity to assess their health departments’ internal preparedness for all-hazards threats, including administrative preparedness. Administrative preparedness is the... Sep 19, 2017 | Katie Dwyer |
Now Recruiting: NACCHO Health & Disability Fellowship ProgramNACCHO is currently seeking two graduate students to become the newest Health and Disability fellows The NACCHO Health and Disability Fellowship Program is an invaluable workforce development opportunity for graduate level students and interested getting hands on experience in the public health disability field. Click here to read the latest NACCHO Voice blog featuring the […] Aug 02, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
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