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This editorial highlights the territories and freely associated states’ achievements in reducing health disparities.

In February 2023, ASTHO staff traveled to Koror, Palau for a four-day health equity summit and held workshops to identify, select, and prioritize measures for Palau’s health equity work.

This blog describes FSM’s efforts to improve access to care in some of the most remote and underserved areas of the Pacific.

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This blog describes how Palau's health ministry collaborated with its community to design indicators to better measure health equity in its jurisdiction.

This blog describes public health legislation introduced during the Island Areas’ 2024 legislative sessions.

This commentary evaluates the application of ASTHO's Islands Health Equity Framework in two island areas.

This article identifies key interventions to advance health equity in the island areas.

Provides a place of connection for CHWs as well as provides professional development and training opportunities.

This interactive guide is a tool to help public health changemakers identify their place on the path to health equity.

A highly curated list of resources to support public health change agents advancing population health and equity, focused on rural health.

This brief explores Medicaid coverage for CHW-led services and highlights opportunities for state and territorial health agencies (S/THAs) to collaborate with Medicaid to support CHWs.

Virtual course provided by ASTHO's e-learning center focused on building capacity among states based around health equity-focused TA requests.

This blog shares key takeaways from the first Island Areas COVID-19 Health Equity Action Institutes.

This blog explains ASTHO’s Islands Health Equity Framework, which outlines a culturally resonant approach to health equity in the island areas.

This report shares Puerto Rico’s strategy and recommendations for developing a social determinants of health dashboard.

This toolkit, developed by the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) in partnership with ASTHO, serves as a resource for health department staff who are pursuing contracts with CBOs to implement CHW programs and provide ...

The Island Health Equity Framework builds shared understanding to reflect island cultures, strengths, and paths toward health equity.

These resources are intended to support island jurisdictions in program planning, retaining community health workers (CHW), preventing CHW burnout, integrating them into health systems, and communicating their role.