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Mar 13, 2025 | Jaclyn Abramson
Stories from the field highlight how LHDs worked to improve how they prepare for and respond to WASH-related emergencies.
Jul 31, 2024 | Rebecca Rainey
Article in March 2024 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) highlights needs of people experiencing...
Feb 09, 2024 | Rebecca Rainey
How can more LHDs leverage Electronic Health Records as part of their climate and health data surveillance?
Dec 26, 2023 | Noah Papagni
Social media was both an incubator for misinformation that local health officials have had to combat as well as a strategic tool that...
Dec 29, 2022 | Charlotte Ciampa
Read more about the lessons learned from both Cuyahoga County and Kansas City on how they plan to update their pool codes.
Jun 10, 2021 | Emily D'Angelo
NACCHO’s Infectious Diseases Team is featured in the November/December 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and...
Sep 30, 2020 | Christina Baum
NACCHO co-authored a paper published in the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice in January 2019 called Developing Core...
Jan 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Note: This is the fourth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Nov 08, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Article in March 2024 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) highlights needs of people experiencing homeless during local WASH-related emergencies.
Social media was both an incubator for misinformation that local health officials have had to combat as well as a strategic tool that health departments used to inform the behavioral health of the public during the pandemic.
NACCHO’s Infectious Diseases Team is featured in the November/December 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
NACCHO co-authored a paper published in the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice in January 2019 called Developing Core Capabilities for Local Health Departments to Engage in Land Use and Transportation Decision Making for Active Transportation. The paper focuses on a study led by the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Worcester Prevention Center from 2015 to 2017 […]
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 cemetery guidelines to include green burials. I wondered if any other health department in the country has any “best practices” […]
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