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The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the country’s nearly 3,000 local health...
Mar 24, 2020 | Theresa Spinner
News release from Nashville Metropolitan Public Health Department NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 24, 2020 –Members of the...
Mar 03, 2020 | Guest Author
By Dr. Peter Jiang, Entomologist, Gainesville Mosquito Control Gainesville, FL is known as “The Swamp” not only because of...
Feb 25, 2020 | Guest Author
Reena Chudgar, MPH, is Director of Innovation at the Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI). Reena joined PHNCI in...
Feb 19, 2020 | George Roberts
By John Townsend, Vector Control Division Manager and James Will, Vector Control Managing Supervisor, Maricopa County Environmental...
Feb 12, 2020 | Guest Author
As we have done for the last several years, NACCHO provided several full scholarships for local health department disease intervention...
Jan 21, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Boone County Health Department (BCHD) has been leading an interdisciplinary team to embark on a mission to gain a comprehensive...
Nov 20, 2019 | Andrea Grenadier
While finishing this blog post, two major earthquakes struck the very area that I am writing about.
Sep 16, 2019 | Guest Author
Since September 2018, 898 mumps cases were reported among detainees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities...
Aug 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the country’s nearly 3,000 local health departments, released the following statement in observance of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24, 2020.
News release from Nashville Metropolitan Public Health Department NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 24, 2020 –Members of the Metropolitan Board of Health of Nashville/Davidson County voted at a specially called meeting last Thursday to approve a contract with Michael C. Caldwell MD MPH as Nashville’s Director of Health. Dr. Caldwell is a Nashville resident, licensed to practice […]
By Dr. Peter Jiang, Entomologist, Gainesville Mosquito Control Gainesville, FL is known as “The Swamp” not only because of the University of Florida, but also because of its swampy areas in the city that breed mosquitoes year-round. Gainesville Mosquito Control (GMC) covers 65 square miles, and a substantial increase in several mosquito species since 2017 […]
Reena Chudgar, MPH, is Director of Innovation at the Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI). Reena joined PHNCI in April 2019 with more than 13 years of experience in public health. Prior to joining PHNCI, Reena served as Director for Performance Improvement at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). During […]
By John Townsend, Vector Control Division Manager and James Will, Vector Control Managing Supervisor, Maricopa County Environmental Services Maricopa County Environmental Services Vector Control Division (MCESVCD) in Arizona conducts year‐round surveillance, abatement and disease testing of mosquitoes. Through NACCHO’s Vector Control Collaborative, we had the opportunity to become a mentor...
As we have done for the last several years, NACCHO provided several full scholarships for local health department disease intervention specialists (DIS) to attend the STD Engage conference and build expertise in STD prevention and control within a broader sexual health approach. Held November 19-22, 2019, STD Engage 2019: Innovate. Impact. Empower brought together DIS, clinic and program staff,...
Boone County Health Department (BCHD) has been leading an interdisciplinary team to embark on a mission to gain a comprehensive understanding of their surrounding workforce and to facilitate a path towards creating healthier work environments.
Since September 2018, 898 mumps cases were reported among detainees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across 18 states. Tri-County Health Department (CO) managed a mumps outbreak at a contract ICE Processing Center in Aurora, Colorado. In under one week, the facility completed universal MMR vaccination for detainees; mumps transmission ceased twelve days later.
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Madison County Public Health Department in New York State held a health fair and concert event in an effort to vaccinate residents...
May 25, 2023 | Guest Author
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