Media Coverage
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NACCHO is a national organization representing local health departments. Local health departments are the stewards of local public health. As NACCHO leadership and LHD partners continue to build the public's awareness of the incredible things public health practitioners do every day for communities across the country, the media continues to cover the hard choices made by local health departments in lean budget times, underscoring the importance of local public health services in a community. 
NACCHO is the national voice for local health departments (LHDs) and the media often look to NACCHO—its leadership, members, and staff—for expertise on a wide range of current and emerging public health issues, policies, and programs. More » 
This year, the media has focused on the tough decisions that local health departments have had to make in these lean budget times—from eliminating jobs to cutting vital health services. Local and national reporters have also featured many of the innovative ways that LHDs coped during the peak of the H1N1 influenza outbreak. This collection of news stories featuring LHD leaders and colleagues may be the first-ever publicly-available, comprehensive collection of media coverage of local public health. More » |
