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August 26, 2013 | Program Results Report
From 2006 to 2013, Common Ground, helped 31 state and local public health agencies improve their information systems and their system performance in order to meet the challenges of bioterrorism, potential pandemics, and chronic disease.
September 26, 2013 | New Public Health Post
The FDA has issued final guidance on the regulation of smartphone medical devices and “intends to focus its regulatory oversight on a subset of mobile medical apps that present a greater risk to patients if they do not work as intended.”
September 20, 2013 | New Public Health Post
The United States is facing a “perfect storm of vulnerability,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, at the ASTHO’s 2013 annual meeting—and state and local public health officials are on the front line of defense.
September 19, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Public health institutions across the country are joining the 10.5 million users on the virtual pinboard website, Pinterest, to share important health information and images.
September 18, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Just ahead of the 2013 ASTHO annual meeting, NewPublicHealth spoke with outgoing ASTHO president José Montero about the importance of the President's Challenge he put forward for his fellow state health officers, as well as the next steps.
September 17, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Ahead of the meeting annual Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO) meeting, NewPublicHealth spoke with ASTHO’s long-time executive director, Paul Jarris, MD, about the key issues participants will engage in during the event.
September 13, 2013 | New Public Health Post
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials annual meeting brings together state health officials and other leaders to talk about the latest critical issues around U.S. public health. NewPublicHealth will be on the ground.
September 11, 2013 | News Release
Despite modest improvement, America’s local health departments are still struggling to recover from the country’s economic recession
September 11, 2013 | New Public Health Post
A review of a recent economic surveillance survey the NACCHO finds that despite modest improvement, local health departments in the United States are still struggling to recover from the recent recession.
August 23, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Today is the eighth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history. Since then, local, state, national and private disaster preparedness efforts have been increasingly improved.