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ASTHO Policy Watch 2022: Maintaining Public Health’s Legal Authority to Prevent Disease Spread

Health Policy Update,
State Health Policy,
COVID and Law/Policy,
Public Health Law,
Emergency Powers,
Arkansas,
Georgia,
Indiana,
Iowa,
Maine,
Maryland,
Minnesota,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New York,
Ohio,
Oklahoma,
South Dakota,
Tennessee,
Virginia,
West Virginia,
Wisconsin,
Andy Baker-White,
Leadership Development

States and territories have broad powers to protect public health and safety, including powers to prevent and control the spread of communicable disease typically exercised by state and territorial ...

Public Health Policy Issues to Watch in 2021

Health Policy Update,
State Health Policy,
COVID Vaccine,
COVID and Community Mitigation,
COVID and Law/Policy,
Vaccine Distribution,
Vaccine Hesitancy,
Influenza,
Leadership and Workforce Development,
HIV,
Tobacco Control,
Opioids,
Overdose Prevention,
Maternal Morbidity and Mortality,
Risk-Appropriate Care,
Public Health Law,
Emergency Powers,
Rural Health,
Healthcare Access,
Andy Baker-White,
Beth Giambrone,
Maggie Davis,
PFAS,
Evidence or Fact-Based Measures

With many of the state and territorial legislatures reconvening over the next few weeks, we can look forward to new (and not-so-new) legislation start to crop up that will impact public health. To ...

How State and Territorial Health Departments Can Navigate Recent Executive Actions

Health Policy Update,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Territorial Health Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Leadership and Workforce Development,
Funding,
Race and Public Health,
Tribal Health,
Partnership,
State Health Policy,
Pandemics,
COVID and Contact Tracing/Disease Intervention,
COVID and Supply Chain,
COVID Testing and Screening,
Emergency Powers,
Public Health Law,
Carolyn McCoy,
Population Health and Prevention,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Public Health Workforce

One of tools presidents have to implement and drive their strategy are executive actions. Executive orders and presidential memoranda carry the force of law and allow presidents to move quickly, ...