The Network for Public Health Law has posted emergency legal preparedness and response resources to help local, state, and federal health officials consider measures to protect the public’s health in the event of the further…
NACCHO President-elect Dr. Swannie Jett, Executive Director of the Seminole County (FL) Health Department, left for Senegal on Oct. 2 as part of the Kentucky Air National Guard to fight the Ebola virus. Approximately 60…
In light of the recent domestic case of confirmed Ebola in Texas, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) continues to encourage U.S. hospitals to prepare for managing patients with Ebola…
Join CDC experts tomorrow from 4:00 to 5:00pm ET to get answers to your questions about the first confirmed #Ebola case in the United States. Follow @CDCgov on Twitter, and use the hashtag #CDCchat to…
The Alabama Department of Public Health is committed to protecting the public’s health and will offer the conference, “Ebola: What We Know Today and How We Can Prepare” on Oct. 1 as part of its’…
On September 30, 2014 at 5:30 PM EDT, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a press conference with hospital and public health representatives from Dallas, Texas to announce that test results had…
“What if there was a case of Ebola in my community?” With the growing outbreak in West Africa, public health preparedness planners across the country are mulling this question as concern grows over the threat…
ASPR and CDC have developed a Detailed Hospital Checklist for Ebola Preparedness to highlight activities that all hospitals can take to prepare for the possibility of a patient exposed to Ebola arriving for medical care.…
CDC has released its Top 10 Ebola Response Planning Tips: Ebola Readiness Self-Assessment for State and Local Public Health Officials available at: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/preparedness/planning-tips-top10.html. The document is designed to guide health departments’ planning efforts, to help assess…
On August 11, the MCM Workgroup held its second monthly call of the project year. It was my first day working as a Senior Program Analyst at NACCHO and I was announced as the new…