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Do you want to learn about contact tracing? This entry-level e-learning opportunity provides a foundation in contact tracing over the course of four lessons. The material includes how to identify, assess, and manage people who have been exposed to the infection.
Looking for more materials to aid your agency's COVID-19 efforts? Visit ASTHO's COVID-19 page to view resources on capacity, communication, contact tracing and disease intervention, recovery, resilience, and more.
ASTHO and the National Governors Association released a report entitled, “Roadmap to Recovery: A Public Health Guide for Governors.” The report was developed to help support governors and states in developing plans for a phased reopening of economic activities while protecting the public’s health.
Need help with risk communications? View this document to find the answers to 45+ top questions about COVID-19, along with detailed message maps to assist with your messaging efforts.
Learn more about applying to participate in new opportunties, including grants for BOLD programs and centers.
Learn more about the ASTHO Challenge and how you can help play a major role in building healthy communities.
A yearly initiative of ASTHO to improve population health through the work of state public health agencies.
Join your colleagues and participate in various discussion topics on my.ASTHO, ASTHO's collaboration and discussion platform. ASTHO members can access the platform here »
Health Equity During COVID-19: Top Strategies for an Equity-Focused Recovery Strategy
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the depth of health inequities in our country. Low-income and marginalized communities are experiencing a disproportionate burden in terms of both health outcomes and economic impact. At the same time, COVID-19 has reinforced the message that disease impacts entire communities and that we are all interdependent on one another. The pandemic has generated awareness of the importance of building community resiliency and brought about an influx of federal funding, which offers an opportunity to advance equity in prevention, social determinants of health, and healthcare.
How States are Housing the Homeless During a Pandemic
On a single night in 2019, roughly 568,000 Americans experienced homelessness. Of those, two-thirds were staying in emergency locations or transitional housing and more than one-third were unsheltered according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. At the state level, policymakers have sought to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by focusing on non-congregate sheltering and alternative housing for homeless populations, restricting the use of hotels and other lodging specifically for homeless individuals. States have also proposed legislation to provide economic assistance, funding, and grants to address homelessness in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A New Normal for Public Health Agencies
As states and territories prepare to reopen many of the functions of their economies and communities, it is also time to pivot to a new normal at health departments nationwide. COVID-19 has been the most substantive threat facing public health in decades and required an urgent mobilization and redirection of resources for all public health programs. A crisis of this proportion would stress any agency, but following a steady decrease in workforce over the past decade, public health has been hit particularly hard. We cannot expect health departments to continue pre-COVID work and continue to sustain the COVID-19 response without adequately scaling up our resources.