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Take Action: National Health IT Week 2017

National Health IT Week (NHIT Week), which will take place October 2-6, 2017, is a nationwide awareness week that highlights the value...

Sep 28, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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Environmental Health & COVID-19 Resource Roundup: February 2, 2021

NACCHO's biweekly roundup of resources for public health professionals at the intersection of environmental health and COVID-19.

Feb 02, 2021 | Anu Varma

Climate Change, Health Equity & Social Justice

Introducing APHA’s Center for Climate, Health, and Equity

By Surili Sutaria Patel, Deputy Director, Center for Public Health Policy, American Public Health Association Climate change presents increasingly serious, complex challenges to the public’s health. In response to these challenges, the American Public Health Association’s (APHA’s) Center for Climate, Health and Equity inspires action on climate and health, advances equitable climate...

Jul 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Policy

Policy Briefs: Shifting Care Delivery to End the HIV Epidemic

In advance of World AIDS Day on December 1st, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law has released two new reports on emerging HIV issues in the United States, including policy ideas for states and local communities and for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Big Ideas: Leveraging the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to […]

Nov 28, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

Climate Change, Food Safety & Inspection, Influenza, Opioid Overdose Epidemic

2018 Forces of Change Survey Report

NACCHO released the 2018 Forces of Change report highlighting new findings on the forces that are affecting the nation’s local health departments (LHDs). Results show that although the economic situation is slowly improving for many LHDs, workforce capacity challenges persist. One-third of LHDs reported experiencing job losses in 2017. LHDs also faced with challenges associated […]

Nov 02, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

All of Us, Communications & Public Relations, Training

Apply: W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network

The Center for Creative Leadership, with the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), is seeking applicants for the next class of the WKKF Community Leadership Network – an innovative fellowship program for local leaders to connect, grow and lead transformational change on behalf of children, families and communities. I’m reaching out to organizations I […]

Sep 04, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Success Story

NASTAD Success Stories: Increasing Hepatitis Testing & Linkage to Care

As part of ongoing efforts to highlight successful health department initiatives aimed at ending the HIV and hepatitis epidemics, NASTAD has released an installment of Success Stories that feature health department hepatitis programs. These stories highlight initiatives in Louisiana, Maryland, and Mississippi, that aim to increase testing and linkage to care for hepatitis B and C […]

Jun 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

Climate Change, Food Safety & Inspection, Health & Disability, Health Equity & Social Justice

Does Ending Plastic Pollution Mean the End of Plastic Straws?

For the last 5,000 years, people around the world have been sipping their drinks out of straws. Only recently have straws come under serious debate. The gold and lapis straws of the ancient Sumerians evolved over the millennia into the plastic straws ubiquitous in restaurants, coffee shops, and bars today. According to one group’s estimate, […]

Apr 19, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Infectious Disease

Report: Molecular Epidemiology and the Transformation of HIV Prevention

Below is an excerpt from a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For many infectious diseases, for example foodborne infections, tuberculosis, and Ebola virus, identifying and controlling outbreaks is a routine component of the public health response. Although this approach has not been a traditional focus of prevention efforts for HIV, […]

Apr 16, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

Take Action: National Health IT Week 2017

National Health IT Week (NHIT Week), which will take place October 2-6, 2017, is a nationwide awareness week that highlights the value of healthcare IT and offers healthcare stakeholders an opportunity to unite under one banner, one message: the benefits health information technology can bring to U.S. healthcare. This year, NHIT Week’s points of engagement will focus on: Supporting...

Sep 28, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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Request for Proposals: Technical Assistance to Improve Vaccine Access, Education,...

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BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

Sep 11, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

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