NIPHC is delighted to welcome its new President, Cheryl Johnson, Executive Director/ Public Health Administrator of the Kendall County Health Department and Kendall-Grundy Community Action (a unit of the Health Department). Click here to read more about Cheryl. 

NIPHC congratulates Paul Kuehnert, Executive Director of the Kane County Health Department, for being elected to the NACCHO Board of Directors. Mr. Kuehnert represents United States Public Health Service Region V, which covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.  Membership on the NACCHO Board of Directors carries with it responsibility for the fiscal and policy oversight of the organization, including managing the business, property and affairs of NACCHO.

In mid-August, the Kane County Health Department handled the state's first human case of West Nile Virus reported this year. A 28-year-old woman from Aurora was diagnosed with West Nile Virus. Details can be read at Kane County Health Department's press release. To date, subsequent human cases in Illinois have been reported in Montgomery, Macon, and Cook Counties. For a library of information on West Nile Virus, see the Illinois Department of Public Health's West Nile Virus site.

The July 25, 2008 edition of the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) featured a report by our esteemed colleagues at the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) that described CCDPH's response to the 2006 high school pertussis outbreak. Click here to read the full report.

Become acquainted with the ten NIPHC committees: Emergency Response Coordinator, Legislative, Public Information Officer, Environmental Health, Infectious Disease, Illinois Department of Human Services, Epidemiology, Mental Health, Geographic Information Systems, and Legal Committees. Click here to read general descriptions of each.