CDC Urges Community-Wide Approach to Health NashvilleHealth and the Metro Public Health Department were pleased to recently host John Auerbach, director of policy with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for a candid discussion on reducing Nashville’s hypertension rates. Dr….

By: Holly Fletcher The Metro Public Health Department, Tennessee State University and NashvilleHealth are putting together a collaboration to decrease the rates of infant mortality and preterm births in Davidson County. The collaboration is going to look at a variety of…

June 21, 2016 | ODPHP By Sharon Ricks There is a place in America, that I call the Land of the Belts. It is the home of the diabetes, stroke, and obesity belts. There are high rates of infant mortality…