Ensuring a healthy region for all residents and visitors involves planning and coordination across borders on issues from everyday wellness to emergency response. Engagement with land use, transportation, and environmental decision-makers is also critical since health is so closely tied with the communities in which people live.
COG addresses these priorities through its support of the region’s Health Officials Committee and by developing relationships with regional programs that impact public health. The program focuses on tracking regional health trends, promoting health in all policy making, and responding to specific public health concerns and emerging issues—including preparing for and coordinating during health emergencies.
COG also continues its longtime sponsorship of regional workshops, conferences, and issue dialogues that bring together public health experts, elected officials, and business and community leaders to exchange information and cultivate a healthier region.
News & Multimedia
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June 9, 2015
The great outdoors serves as the office for our region’s foresters, farmers, horticultural, and landscape professionals, and tick-borne diseases like Lyme pose...
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November 14, 2014
Officials planners and stakeholders need to consider public health when making decisions about land use transportation and other infrastructure according to...
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October 8, 2014
At the October COG Board of Directors meeting, area health officials briefed board members on how the National Capital Region has planned for and would respond...
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October 2, 2014
At a joint meeting of the Climate, Energy, and Environment Policy Committee and the Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee, officials discussed making...
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September 11, 2014
David Snyder was first sworn in as a member of the City of Falls Church Council in July 1994 and has served as Mayor and Vice Mayor of the City. Snyder who...