The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) released a report on updated foodborne illness source attribution estimates using multi-year outbreak surveillance data. The authors used outbreak data to produce new estimates for foods responsible for…
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed this guide to help states and communities across the nation explore and expand their mosquito control…
Local vector control programs in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas are invited to attend one of two Vector Control Workshops in January 2019: January 8–9: Charleston, South Carolina January 15–16: Montgomery,…
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. Since August, NACCHO…
Applications are opening soon for NACCHO’s Vector Control Mentorship Program. Local vector control organizations are encouraged to apply to be either mentors or mentees in the program. Mentors will help mentees increase their capacity to…
Two Joint PulseNet/OutbreakNet Regional Meetings will be held in 2019: West Coast: February 5-7, 2019 in San Diego, CA Central: March 6-8, 2019 in Omaha, NE The meetings will bring together laboratorians, epidemiologists and environmental…
NACCHO’s more than 125 policy statements are drafted, reviewed, and updated by NACCHO advisory groups every three years. These policy statements form the basis for NACCHO’s federal advocacy. NACCHO recently released the 2018 Compendium of Policy…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $1.5 million for Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG). These funds will be distributed to approximately 50 community-based organizations nationwide that will work to address environmental…
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series covering the Capabilities for Public Health Agency Involvement…
Note: This is the fourth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. November 2018 Dear Greener Guidance, I am working on revising our local health department…