In December 2021, HRSA approved new and updated Women’s Preventive Services Guidelines, which will go into effect in 2023. The recent changes include a new guideline on obesity prevention for midlife women and updates to five existing ...
Dr. Brian Castrucci, de Beaumont Foundation President and CEO, discusses the concerning results of the latest PH WINS Survey of nearly 45,000 public health workers across the nation; ASTHO is teaming with the Association of Maternal and ...
Infodemic Management This training covers the process that CDC uses to assess social listening and other data for the State of Vaccine Confidence Insights Reports and how you can adopt a similar process to inform action. Speakers Claire ...
This article in Journal of Public Health Management & Practice discusses ASTHO's strategies for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.
On March 29, 2022, ASTHO CEO Michael Fraser praised the Biden administration's FY23 budget request for its recognition of the importance of supporting core public health infrastructure.
On March 2, 2022, ASTHO CEO Michael Fraser released a statement commending President Biden’s State of the Union pledge to protect America’s health by addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid epidemic, and current mental health crisis.
On Feb. 15, 2022 ASTHO announced the launch of a new public health workforce development program, the Public Health, Equity, Resilience, and Opportunity Program (PH-HERO)—aimed to address workforce burnout, resiliency, and morale.
What’s Next? An Update From the Hill Devon Page The new year began with a storm. A rare snowy blaze was unleashed on D.C., causing confusion, bewilderment, and inactivity. Though the snowfall subsided, its remnants melted, and Sen. Tim ...
Under the Tenth Amendment, states have the power to protect the health and welfare of their populations, including the authority to implement isolation and quarantine orders to limit the spread of disease. This post is an examination of ...
The ASTHO State Health Policy team provides brief updates on 5 of the ten state health policy issues to watch in 2022: public health authority, immunization, data privacy and modernization, public health workforce, and health equity.
When Beatriz Vallejo, the disability and preparedness specialist in Puerto Rico, first joined the health agency, she took on planning a novel program to share knowledge and clarify each sectors’ roles and responsibilities during an ...
On Feb. 21, 2022, global health advocate Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, passed away. Farmer leaves behind a legacy of radical compassion, generosity, and a commitment to social justice. He will be remembered for his work making affordable, ...
ASTHO promotes State and Territorial public health agency Administrative Readiness (STAR) by providing high quality resources and opportunities to bolster capacity.
This report contains lessons learned and examples of messaging strategies that were successful during cyanobacterial bloom responses, they were collected from 17 state health agency staff members across 12 states.
Environmental Health Policy Guides Environmental health is concerned with how interactions between humans and their environments impact human health. The field emerged to protect people from chemical or biological threats in their ...
This self-paced online training module was developed to address the short- and long-term health effects of climate change on vector-borne disease (VBD) transmission and infection patterns. The goal of this training is to provide geographic ...
This online repository is a collection of resources, products, and event recordings that health officials can use to enhance communication efforts during a public health emergency.
An exciting week of virtual sessions to provide you with information, inspiration, and opportunities for collaboration.
As leaders of their state agency, state and territorial health officials can be named parties in lawsuits alleging that an action taken by a public health agency was unlawful. These officials are typically sued in their “official ...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted workforce challenges and longstanding health inequities within the healthcare and public health systems, because of this there has been an increased interest in developing the community health worker ...