NACCHO

NACCHO welcomes Dr. Michael Kilkenny as Board President. Dr. Kilkenny is a board-certified family practice physician trained in an innovative residency program, which included preparation to be a local health officer with a master’s degree in community health. He has practiced medicine in settings as varied as remote rural private practice to academic medicine and has had the opportunity to serve as medical director in a large Federally Qualified Health Center system prior to fulfilling his aspiration to serve as a local health officer. “Representing and amplifying the voice of over 3,300 local health departments on a national stage is a great opportunity,” said Dr. Kilkenny. “Bringing home a national perspective and sharing cutting edge public health strategies with our communities is the benefit we get from membership in NACCHO. I’m honored to have been selected to lead the board of this great organization.” ➡️Read the full press release here: https://ow.ly/K7tW50SK4ZJ

#PressRelease: NACCHO with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSAgov), HHS are proud to relaunch its signature learning course series, Roots of Health Inequity. Roots of Health Inequity has long been a valuable tool for public health professionals, clinicians, community advocates, and others to learn more about, and act upon, the health inequities their communities experience. Over the past three years, Roots has been updated to reflect the ever-changing, pervasive, and intersecting convergence of political, social, and economic struggles exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. ➡️Read the full press release here: https://ow.ly/LvuZ50SILEC

#ICYMI: We kicked off NACCHO360 (#NA360) this afternoon with our Opening Plenary session, "Heard it Through the Grapevine: How Partnerships, Innovation, and Collaboration are Improving Public Health Outcomes." What an incredible panel of experts discussing key topics in #PublicHealth. We even heard special guest comments from CDC Director Mandy Cohen! We're excited for our next plenary, tomorrow morning at 8:00AM! #NA360

For those attending NACCHO 360, be sure to visit the NACCHO Booth in the Exhibit Hall to read a selection of NACCHO's latest and previous publications! The NACCHO Booth can be found at Booth #1, immediately to the right upon entering the Exhibit Hall. #NA360

NACCHO Board of Directors 2024-2025 with Dr. Mandy Cohen, Director of the CDC, at NACCHO 360 in Detroit, MI. #NA360

Please join NACCHO Monday, July 29, 1PM-2PM ET for a presentation on H5N1 and Dengue with speakers from CDC and Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment. This presentation will provide an overview of the current situation of each virus and include time for a Q&A with the presenters. To learn more and register, visit: https://lnkd.in/g3QngF-e

Strong public health data, informatics, and analytics are vital to local health departments’ efforts to protect and promote health within their communities. As such, NACCHO Research conducted the #FOCsurvey last year, and a follow-up assessment this year, to collect information from local health departments about their #DataModernization and #Informatics capacity. Check out some of those findings in our new blog post: https://lnkd.in/e78p4cNt

Interested in attending NACCHO's next in-person IPC training? Join us August 28-29 in St. Louis, MO for our Essential Skills Leadership Academy for IPC Staff! Space is limited. Attendees will receive a full scholarship for attendance which includes the cost of training, flight, hotel, and per diem for LHD staff. Learn more and register by July 24: https://lnkd.in/g_qWMHw2

We can't wait to see you in #Detroit next week for NACCHO360! We'll be posting some of the top highlights from the conference throughout the week, so stay tuned for more updates! Safe travels! #NA360

New Resources: Health Equity Performance Measures and Toolkit for Community Health Workers In 2023, NACCHO funded the Center for Public Health Systems (CPHS) at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health to create a toolkit to increase LHDs’ capacity to define, measure, and track progress toward health equity as a part of their performance improvement. To best inform creation of a useful toolkit, CPHS first conducted an environmental scan in February and March of 2023 of peer-reviewed literature and plans written by public health departments. Next, CPHS held three listening sessions in January and February 2024 with professionals from LHDs across the country. The goal of the listening sessions was to understand LHDs’ working definitions of health equity, their HEPM strategies, and their data sources. Thirdly, much of the content included in this toolkit builds on Measuring What Matters in Public Health, published by NACCHO in 2018. This report provides guidance on building a performance management system, supplemented with templates, worksheets, and stories from the field. We add to this report by focusing specifically on performance measurement (an aspect of performance management) of health equity. Check out these four new resources in a NACCHO blog post here: https://lnkd.in/exztRDRe #PublicHealth #CommunityHealthWorkers #HealthEquity