Public Health Advocacy
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NACCHO informs policymakers of the critical role local health departments play in keeping our communities healthy and safe. As the national voice for local public health, NACCHO:
As implementation of the health reform law moves forward, NACCHO's health reform webpage provides details about aspects of the law that are of particular interest to local health departments. More » 
NACCHO's Congressional Action Network is a grassroots group of local health department professionals who communicate with their elected Representatives and Senators in Congress. NACCHO members successfully advocated for public health and prevention provisions in the recent health reform law. Policymakers need to hear from you about issues that affect your community. More » 
LHDs can make themselves more visible and recognizable to external audiences—policymakers, the media, and the public—through communications, marketing, and branding. Critical to these fundamental concepts are the strategies, tactics, messages, and supporting visual elements, which can all be found here. NACCHO and Local Health Departments in the News
Local Health Department Budget Cuts and Job Losses Between January 2008 and December 2009, LHDs lost 23,000 jobs to layoffs and attrition, roughly 15 percent of the entire LHD workforce. More than half of LHDs had to make cuts during 2009 to important programs such as population-based primary prevention, maternal and child health, and environmental health. Click here to sign on to a letter urging the Senate to take action to save public health jobs. More » Get Heard on Capitol Hill |
The media continues to focus on the tough decisions that local health departments have to make in these lean budget times—from eliminating jobs to cutting vital health services. This collection of news stories featuring NACCHO and local health department leaders may be the first-ever publicly-available, comprehensive collection of media coverage of local public health. 
