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Blackwell Appointed to NACCHO Advisory Group

Pam Blackwell, Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response for Cobb & Douglas Public Health, was recently appointed to serve on the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Preparedness Policy Advisory Group (PPAG). This group is an ad hoc advisory group that was developed as a two-year pilot (Feb. 1, 2012-Jan. 31, 2014) and will served under the direction of NACCHO's Preparedness Committee. The PPAG will be utilized as a vehicle to obtain input and feedback from local health department representatives on a variety of issues concerning public health preparedness, response, and recovery.


Georgia Violent Death Reporting System Team’s Efforts Recognized by CDC

Recently, the Georgia Violent Death Reporting System (GVDRS) has the most improved “Incidents Initiated with 180 Days of Date of Death” among all participating states in the CDC-funded National Violent Death reporting System (NVDRS). GVDRS’s incident initiation rate increased from 22 percent for 2008 to 82 percent for 2009.

Funded in 18 states, NVDRS is a population-based surveillance system that collects information about violent deaths from several different sources, including death certificates, medical examiner and/or coroner records, law enforcement records, supplemental homicide reports and crime laboratory records. The information in then pooled into a comprehensive, centralize database. The data are used to characterize violence trends and guide violence prevention programs, policies and practice
 

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