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Improving a State’s Process for Disclosing Data for Public Health Purposes to Tribal Public Health Organizations

This ASTHO brief outlines strategies for equitable access to COVID-19 therapeutics, focusing on high-risk groups and distribution challenges.

State issued documents, such as birth certificates, are often required to navigate daily life. Vital records policy is a complex and evolving issue with many of the processes and procedures left to jurisdictional policy-makers.

ASTHO has identified health equity and rural health as issues that policymakers across the country will consider in 2022.

Leading Health Security Efforts Through Strategic Collaboration and Innovation Margaret Nilz This blog post illustrates how health agencies' strategic plans can improve health security and emergency preparedness. Strategic planning is ...

Linking Datasets to Address Racial Equity in Maternal and Child Health Outcomes astho, association of state and territorial health officials, data sources, people of color, centers for disease control, racial inequities, advance racial ...

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century, as well as some of the most powerful and cost-effective tools to prevent disease, disparities, disability, and death among children and adults. The COVID-19 ...

Advancing Health Equity Science Implementation in Health Departments Health Equity Science, Public Health Action, Data Modernization, Community Partnerships, Health Equity Evaluation, improve health, health care, community based, data ...

Investing in Indiana’s Public Health Infrastructure Through Community-Driven Policy Change public health infrastructure, community driven policy, indiana state health commissioner, public health system, indiana department of health, ...

ASTHO has been exploring how using GIS and data visualization tools can improve traditional public health work. This brief shares several expert use cases for visualizing and integrating environmental health and electronic health ...

ASTHO, with support from CDC, launched the first cohort of the Linking Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Clinical Outcomes Data Multi-Jurisdiction Learning Community in October 2021. This brief examines themes that emerged ...

Interview with LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD, MPH, director of DC Health, about perinatal health, collaboration with community health centers, and opportunities to address disparities in maternal and child health outcomes.

CDC-funded program will accelerate data exchange between healthcare and public health to drive timely, data-informed public health action

ASTHO profile data indicates the public health workforce has more temporary and vacant positions than ever before

Advanced Grant Payments: Creating a More Equitable Public Health System Advanced Grant Payments Promote Equity in Public Health Jignasa Jani, Ryan Rivera Learn how advanced grant payments can ensure smaller community-based organizations ...

Technical assistance for procuring software to support data dashboard development.

Developing a Data Dashboard to Address Health Equity Concerns: Insights from Puerto Rico health equity, puerto rico, social determinants of health, population health, public health data, data collection, data databases, chronic disease, ...

The second half of Public Health Review's story on the opioid epidemic explores how coalitions in Kentucky are driving prevention efforts, what public health practitioners in West Virginia are doing to identify and care for newborns ...

ASTHO has several members from the territories and Freely Associated States—jurisdictions with unique challenges, and do not fall under the category of a state or federal district. This post is a brief look at some of the public health ...

As a truly historic year comes to an end, many public health policy issues received a considerable amount of attention in 2020. Subjects such as the pandemic that will live on in infamy, racial health disparities, and the future of the ...