Washington, DC, August 19, 2025 —This month’s podcast episode from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), includes discussion of the tragic shooting that happened at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main campus in Atlanta, Georgia. Speakers also provide an update on the Senate’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bill, which made it out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 31 with bipartisan support. A comprehensive analysis of the bill was posted on NACCHO’s blog published by the NACCHO Government Affairs team. In addition, they describe a recent action alert sent to NACCHO’s Congressional Action Network urging Congress to ask the Office of Management and Budget to remove restrictions on using certain FY25 public health funds to support health departments. For weekly updates, subscribe to NACCHO’s News from Washington newsletter: www.naccho.org/advocacy/news.

Later in the program (8:51), Sarisa Roe, Research and Evaluation Analyst at the CDC Foundation, discusses the launch of their new resource called Overdose Measures Matter. Operating under the Bloomberg Overdose Prevention Initiative, the Overdose Measures Matter project helps local public health and community leaders understand which interventions are the most effective and helps them focus their efforts to reach populations with the highest need. The project aims to reduce overdoses by identifying what’s working, assessing programs and outcomes over time, and examining progress across communities.

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