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Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center: A Pandemic Lifeline

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Guam,

Alex Wheatley,

Youth Mental Health

The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for an existing behavioral health resource—the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center’s Crisis Hotline—to become a household name. During the pandemic, the hotline became a lifeline for a ...

Jurisdictions Moving Many ASTHO Essential Tobacco Control Policies Forward

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Health Policy Update,

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Population Health and Prevention,

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Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Improvement,

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Joshua Berry,

Ann Abraham,

Territories and Freely Associated States,

Evidence or Fact-Based Measures

Over the past several years, states and jurisdictions have continued to implement important policies to reduce tobacco and nicotine use, including increasing tobacco prices, expanding areas deemed “smoke-free,” limiting the sale of ...

State, Territorial Health Policies Strengthening Emergency Preparedness Efforts

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Injury and Violence Prevention,

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Adrianna Evans

While COVID-19 is still present and ever-changing, public health professionals must also grapple with new challenges such as monkeypox, increasing firearm homicide, and widespread heat waves. In the wake of such emergencies, public health ...

How the U.S. Virgin Islands is Improving Federal Grants Management

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Funding,

Health Equity,

Social Determinants of Health,

Leadership and Workforce Development,

Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,

Business Process Improvement,

Grants and Contracts Management,

Virgin Islands,

Territories and Freely Associated States,

Kristin Sullivan

How the U.S. Virgin Islands is Improving Federal Grants Management astho, association of state and territorial health officials, public health, grant programs, grant management, overall health, health system, improving health, social ...

Sharing Island Stories on Health Equity: Setting the Stage for Equity in the Island Areas

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Community Health Workers,

Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,

American Samoa,

Federated States of Micronesia,

Guam,

Marshall Islands,

Northern Mariana Islands,

Palau,

Puerto Rico,

Virgin Islands,

Alex Wheatley,

Julia Von Alexander,

Kelsey Donnellan,

Neyling Fajardo,

Operationalizing Equity,

Island Equity

In the spring of 2022, ASTHO’s island area members convened at the first island-focused COVID-19 Health Equity Action Institutes and asked each other what creating an equitable and sustainable public health and healthcare system looks like ...