The Choreography of Collaboration by Katrina Smith Korfmacher, University of Rochester Medical Center Let’s talk about collaboration. Collaboration seems to be the “motherhood and apple pie” of public health. It’s such an inarguably good idea that everyone can… More
December 31st, 2019
A Few of Our Favorite Things: A Review of Key Healthy Housing Resources Created by Partners in 2019
A Few of Our Favorite Things: A Review of Key Healthy Housing Resources Created by Partners in 2019 by Amanda Reddy, National Center for Healthy Housing For those of us celebrating holidays this month, the gifts have… More
December 29th, 2019
A Holiday Gift for You: A Year’s Worth of Great Webinars
A Holiday Gift for You: A Year’s Worth of Great Webinars by Christopher Bloom and Sarah Goodwin With the 2019 holiday season wrapping up, we know that many of you are just itching to get back to work… More
November 11th, 2019
Ten Years of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition: Who We Are Now
Ten Years of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition: Who We Are Now by Sarah Goodwin, Anna Plankey, and members of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition Steering Committee This is the third installment in… More
October 25th, 2019
Building Bridges, Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Success Against Lead in Rochester
Building Bridges, Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Success Against Lead in Rochester by Katrina Smith Korfmacher, University of Rochester Medical Center In a 2004 newspaper editorial, Rochester’s Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning leaders claimed, “We will find lead hazards before they… More
October 21st, 2019
Tactical Thinking: Housing Codes and Lead Poisoning Prevention
Tactical Thinking: Housing Codes and Lead Poisoning Prevention by Sarah Goodwin and David Jacobs When it comes to local efforts to prevent childhood lead poisoning, there seems to be one word on everyone’s mind these days: codes.… More
October 17th, 2019
CEHN, NAFCC, and NCHH Launch New Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care
CEHN, NAFCC, and NCHH Launch New Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care Media Contacts: Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, nobot@cehn.org, 202.543.4033 ext. 14; Christopher Bloom, cbloom@nchh.org, 443.539.4154 WASHINGTON, DC (October 18, 2019) — With funding from The JPB Foundation, the Children’s… More
October 10th, 2019
NCHH and Partners Receive HUD Grant to Study the Effects of Ventilation on Indoor Contaminants from Gas Stoves
NCHH and Partners Receive HUD Grant to Study the Effects of Ventilation on Indoor Contaminants from Gas Stoves Media Contact: Christopher Bloom, 443.539.4154, cbloom@nchh.org COLUMBIA, MD (October 10, 2019) — The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH)… More
September 27th, 2019
Ten Years of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition: A Decade of Appropriations Advocacy
Ten Years of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition: A Decade of Appropriations Advocacy This is the second installment in a series celebrating the first 10 years of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition.… More
September 10th, 2019
Is the Green Building Component of the Future… Rice Straw?
Is the Green Building Component of the Future…Rice Straw? by Christopher Bloom Could the hip, new green building component be rice straw? We know what some of you are wondering: Um, what is rice straw, anyway? Rice straw is… More