Public Health and Information Sharing Toolkit The Public Health & Information Sharing (PH&IS) Toolkit addresses key concepts regarding public health agencies' authority to collect, use, and share information to prepare and ...
In-depth analysis on state health policy surrounding health equity. This is part of ASTHO's annual legislative prospectus series.
In-depth analysis on state health policy surrounding immunization. This is part of ASTHO's annual legislative prospectus series.
The community engagement series highlights activities, including webinars and videos, fostering breastfeeding equity between state agencies and community organizations.
ASTHO provides capacity building and technical assistance to health agencies to build strong, evidence-based overdose and substance use prevention programs.
Public health departments work to prepare for any kind of threat to the public’s wellbeing, including the potential for nuclear and radiation emergencies.
Public health agencies share a special partnership with Medicaid, which can be utilized to increase access to care and promote health equity.
On Dec. 15, 2021, ASTHO released its list of the top 10 state public health policy issues to watch in 2022. Although COVID-19 did not make the “official” list, it is woven into the management plan for nearly every trend. The 10 public ...
Global, national and state technology, public health, and other experts convene online at ASTHO’s TechXpo May 10 and 11, 2022.
On March 8, 2022, ASTHO reaffirmed its position that children five years of age and older should be vaccinated against COVID-19, as recommended by public health experts.
This article in Journal of Women's Health describes the implementation of a temporary field placement approach and suggests that this approach could be replicated to enhance state and local capacity to respond to the opioid crisis or ...
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 ...
Public Health leaders know that location matters and has a significant impact on an individual’s health—and initiatives that have the highest impact focus on localized conditions and speak directly to community needs. In this episode, ...
The U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands mounted a unique response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it started to sweep the globe. We discuss that approach and its successes with some of the region’s experts.
While governments have faced challenges in adopting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to respond to COVID-19, the impact of the public health emergency across sectors such as housing, transportation, and employment has created a ...
Housing and overall neighborhood conditions significantly influence a community’s health. Housing quality, stability, and affordability also directly impact an individual’s opportunity and ability to be healthy. There are several policies ...
Spanish language version of "Embedded: Puerto Rico’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness Academy" blog post.
In the late fall of 2021, ASTHO leadership visited select jurisdictions in the Pacific and the Atlantic for the first time since COVID-19 curtailed travel to these regions. It was a fantastic to reconnect with our leadership and dedicated ...
The COVID-19 pandemic provided an unprecedented opportunity to speed up developing Delaware’s Functional Assessment Service Team and to test it at scale.
This interview is part of ASTHO’s Leadership Trailblazers series, which shares outstanding public health leaders’ inspirations, motivations, and accomplishments. This post features Karyl Thomas Rattay, MD, MS, director of the Delaware ...