This infographic serves as a tool to foster conversations in health agencies around planning programs, policies, and activities to better serve individuals with disabilities. Available in English and Spanish.
ASTHO provides key support and resources as public health agencies undergo critical updates to their data and information systems.
This brief highlights evidence supporting the use of nonopioid medications and nonpharmacological interventions for pain management and outlines considerations for states looking to expand the use of these nonopioid alternatives.
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ASTHO's community-based virtual platform that helps members engage with their peers by networking, participating in discussions, collaborating, and sharing resources.
To ensure that establishments were abiding by food safety rules during the COVID-19 pandemic and to protect the health of professionals who inspect these facilities, multiple state health agencies implemented virtual inspection protocols.
Explore the Embedded series, a multi-part series featuring ASTHO’s 19 disability and preparedness specialists placed in jurisdictions nationwide.
ASTHO is committed to aiding the campaign to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by providing input for HIV/AIDS policy based on multidisciplinary research and analysis.
ASTHO supports state and territorial health agencies as they combat vaccine-preventable disease through comprehensive immunization programs.
The Public Health Transformation Series explores how health department programs, policies, and partnerships have adapted and evolved to serve their constituencies.
While the COVID-19 response has strained tobacco prevention and control efforts, the pandemic has afforded health officials unique opportunities to retool their tobacco prevention response. This brief spotlights new findings on tobacco use ...
States and territories can reduce adverse childhood experiences through evidence-based primary prevention strategies designed to reduce risk factors.
Healthy People 2030 Healthy People fosters a shared vision of public health across the United States. It establishes national priorities every 10 years to guide jurisdiction planning and data collection, which is supported by the HHS ...
Learn more about DELPH Cohort 1 participants.
The Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Framework The Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Framework is a tool state and territorial health agency (S/THA) leadership can use to intervene using systems levers to prevent and ...
Infant and Child Health Our youngest are often our most vulnerable and they require specialized, intentional care. ASTHO is committed to helping public health departments protect and improve the health of children and infants by providing ...
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While COVID-19 has shown some of the best attributes of the U.S. public health system, it has exposed the weaknesses of our data systems—wrought by chronic underfunding and further exacerbated by siloed, categorical funding and planning. ...
Well before COVID-19 hit, an increasing share of American households faced housing challenges. This is a public health concern because stable, affordable, and accessible housing has a direct and well-documented impact on physical and ...
A pressing public health issue before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the need for public health interventions to reduce tobacco use is heightened with a strong association between tobacco use, in all forms, with severe COVID-19 outcomes. ...