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02/05/2026

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01/15/2025

Did you know breathing in smoke can lead to increased risk of chronic diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, and heart attacks? It can also worsen symptoms of asthma and autoimmune conditions, like rheumatoid arthritis. Exposure to wildfire smoke has been shown to increase risk of heart problems like stroke, heart disease, and high blood pressure.

Continue checking your local air quality. When air quality is unhealthy, follow these tips to stay safe.

✔️ Avoid outdoor activity as much as possible.

✔️ Wear a NIOSH Approved N95 respirator fitted correctly.

✔️ Set your air conditioner to recirculate mode.

Learn more about how you can protect yourself if you already have a chronic condition: https://bit.ly/4afTCxc

01/13/2025

Environmental health staff play a critical role in leading environmental assessments during foodborne disease outbreak investigations. Learn how to complete an environmental assessment from start to finish using outbreak scenarios in this training from CDC. Enroll today and earn FREE CE with the Environmental Assessment Training Series (EATS) 101: bit.ly/4il5PVj

01/09/2025

Clinical and Public Health Laboratory Professionals: Looking for a basic e-learning course on the 11 core functions of public health laboratories? A NEW course from CDC’s OneLab REACH™ describes these core functions and how you can apply them to effectively serve your community. Register now: bit.ly/4f4EQdL

01/08/2025

Healthcare providers: You play a key role in helping with concussion care. Check out the CDC HEADS UP training to learn how to prevent, diagnose, and manage concussions and head injuries in children and young adults. Take the training and earn FREE CE: bit.ly/3BlCCZt

01/07/2025

CDC’s Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant helps fund innovative programs, like Colorado’s Innovation Incubator, to select exciting new public health project proposals. The Health eMoms survey was a selected project and provided a new way of collecting long-term postpartum data from Colorado’s birthing population to measure breastfeeding, vaccination rates, and many other birth-related topics. This project helps improve health outcomes among moms and babies.

Learn more about PHHS Block Grant funding here: https://bit.ly/3ZzM3MS

01/06/2025

Congratulations to the 20 public health departments recently awarded national accreditation and reaccreditation by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) https://bit.ly/4goGuZb. Join us in congratulating these health departments:

Alabama Public Health – Montgomery, AL

Arkansas Department of Health – Little Rock, AR

Ashtabula City Health Department – Ashtabula, OH

Bethlehem Health Bethlehem Health Bureau – Bethlehem, PA

Carson City Health and Human Services – Carson City, NV

City of St. Louis Department of Health – St. Louis, MO

Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services – Columbia, MO

Connecticut Department of Public Health – Hartford, CT

Dallas County Health and Human Services – Dallas, TX

Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) – Sandusky, OH

Fayette County Public Health – Washington Court House, OH

Kansas Department of Health and Environment – Topeka, KS

Kitsap Public Health District – Bremerton, WA

Laurel County Health Department – London, KY

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health – Los Angeles, CA

Maryland Department of Health – Baltimore, MD

Meeker McLeod Sibley Community Health Services – Litchfield, MN

Mississippi State Department of Health – Jackson, MS

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services – Jefferson City, MO

Sacramento County - Government – Sacramento, CA

01/06/2025

The New York (NY) State Department of Health is transforming the public health work force one internship at a time. Through the NY State Pathways to Public Health Internship Program, young professionals are given hands-on experiences in public health and leadership training with a focus on health equity. Learn more about how CDC investments are shaping future public health leaders across the country: https://bit.ly/3ZWkaAh

12/16/2024

Curious to know more about how disease detectives solve outbreaks? Listen to a new podcast episode by CDC Foundation featuring the work of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Officers.

Episode 49: On the Case with a Disease Detective | Your first day at any new job is always a little stressful. But for Julia Petras, the day she started working at CDC was especially high stakes.

12/16/2024

It’s estimated that Arkansas is home to over 90 homeless shelters and over 5,000 people experiencing homelessness across the state.

To get this population the services it needs, the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) hired a homeless shelter and encampment coordinator with investments from CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Grant.

The coordinator plays a vital role in connecting shelters and organizations across the state to ADH services, such as to***co and substance use counseling, chronic disease screenings and counseling, immunizations, and more.

https://bit.ly/3R4WG78

12/13/2024

Community partnerships play an important role in public health. CDC investments allowed the Kentucky Department for Public Health to partner with the Youth Golfers Outreach Program (YGOP) to expand their health and wellness curriculum throughout the school system. Community partnerships like this can provide opportunities to educate and reinforce healthy behaviors in a fun environment! Scroll through the slides to see how the curriculum helped students in Kentucky.

12/06/2024

How is the Public Health Infrastructure Grant helping shape the future of public health? Tune in December 10 to hear insights from ASTHO President Dr. Scott Harris.

Tune in to Public Health Review Morning Edition on Dec. 10 for Investing in Tomorrow: PHIG Impact Report and hear from ASTHO President Dr. Scott Harris, state health officer for the Alabama Public Health, on how the Public Health Infrastructure Grant is enabling his department to tell the story of public health and lead to workforce recruitment and retention.

Learn more and subscribe to : newscast.astho.org.


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