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Norwalk health director urges broader outreach as federal preparedness funding faces cuts
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Director Diana D'Amour summarized takeaways from NACCHO's annual meeting and led a board discussion about increasing public outreach, town halls and partnerships; she warned federal preparedness funding and a preventive health block grant are not recommended in the president's proposed budget and noted local contract and staffing updates.
Diana D'Amour, director of health for the City of Norwalk, told the Board of Health on July 22 that lessons from a recent National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) conference point to the need to make local public health more visible and to step up outreach.
D'Amour summarized NACCHO—s role and messaging and told the board that “we need to be doing more to make, you know, public health visible.” She said NACCHO convenes leaders from the nation—s roughly 3,000 local health departments to share evidence‑based strategies on workforce development, infectious disease prevention, communication and other public‑health topics.
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