CDC Learning Connection for March: Opioid, Vector Control, and TB Trainings
Posted in: TRAIN
March 1, 2018
This March, the CDC Learning Connection features several timely courses.
Hot Training Topic: More than 63,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2016. Access the latest opioid-related courses on TRAIN and learn new ways to address the crisis.
Learn about integrated pest management (IPM) to con...
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Update on Responding to Zika
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
October 25, 2016
Since our last blog post about Zika funding and response, Congress has allocated funding explicitely to support Zika prevention, surveillance, and preparedness. Health departments need to remain lean and effective in responding to the present and emerging risk of Zika and other vector-borne diseases,...
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Mobilizing Community Partners to Action: How a Small Vector Control Program Tackled Zika
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
October 11, 2016
Cheryl Clay is the Public Health Senior Environmentalist for the Madison County Health Department, where her core responsibility is managing the vector control program for the City of Huntsville. Her vector control program emphasizes public education and source reduction as the most effective means...
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Respond Now to the Threat of Zika
Posted in: Infrastructure, and Performance Management and Quality Improvement
August 1, 2016
Choose to Be Lean and Effective We know that state and local health departments are not getting all the resources they need to respond to the present and emerging risk of Zika and other vector-borne diseases. With the limited resources available, it is imperative that agencies be effective and eff...
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