The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a new resource for small and critical access hospitals to help healthcare facility leaders and providers implement antibiotic stewardship activities in their facilities. The Implementation of…
This year’s NACCHO Annual Conference includes a “Health Information & Technology” track to explore how local health departments are acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using healthcare information to foster better collaboration with public health and health…
The Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) will host a webinar to explore, “What can the Ebola response teach us for future health outbreaks in cities?” The webinar will highlight…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is hosting a webinar in collaboration with the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) as part of the joint Outbreak Response Training Program (ORTP). This is…
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which people acquire while receiving treatment or care for another condition, affect 1 in 25 hospital patients in the United States each year and can lead to sepsis or death. HAI risks are…
The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) has just released a new publication highlighting its emerging infectious disease work, covering topics from A to Z – anthrax to Zika. This document features…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found a substantial increase in the number of counties that reported evidence of the mosquitoes that can spread chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses, according to new research published…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has employed the Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work campaign for many years in an effort to support appropriate antibiotic use. This year, CDC is revamping this campaign…
With the President’s FY 2018 budget proposal looming as a serious threat to public health, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released an issue brief on how the budget puts the nation’s health at risk,…
This one hour webinar, hosted by the Centers of Excellence in Maternal & Child Health at both the Boston University School of Public Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will present current and emerging…