Breastfeeding and early child nutrition are crucial for promoting healthy early brain development. This infographic details how skin-to-skin breastfeeding and breast milk promote infant brain development, higher educational ...
This infographic highlights 10 high-level strategies to advance work in school behavioral health.
Implementing Levels of Maternal Care Improves Access to Risk-Appropriate Care Lexa Giragosian Levels of maternal care support risk-appropriate care for pregnant and birthing populations. Risk-appropriate care (RAC) is a strategy to ensure ...
State firearm survey data can inform firearm injury prevention strategies—read recommendations for developing state firearm surveys and applying findings.
Learn how health agencies can strengthen their overdose prevention programs through business improvement.
Learn how health departments can focus their infectious disease prevention efforts in this brief.
Leveraging Medicaid to Support Community Health Workers astho, association of state and territorial health officials, community health workers, health equity, medicaid coverage, chw workforce, social service, public health, health care ...
Learn how territorial and freely associated state health agencies can support community health workers and their vital work in this brief.
In this webinar, subject matter experts explore Medicaid family planning state plan amendments (SPAs) and waivers, focusing on Illinois as a case study.
Webinar Series: Leveraging Different Sectors to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis According to recent data from CDC, poor mental health symptoms and suicidal ideation are on the rise for high school students. Despite these rising ...
In this ASTHO webinar, learn how state public health agencies can align with state Medicaid agencies to collaboratively advance the goals of the National Ending the HIV Initiative. Featured guests include the Virginia Department of Medical ...
This article in Journal of Public Health Management & Practice discusses ASTHO's strategies for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.
This article in Journal Of Women's Health explores the actions of jurisdictions that participated in the Increasing Access to Contraception Learning Community, and how they continued the work of their action plan goals 1 year after the ...
This article in Journal of Maternal and Child Health demonstrates the application of implementation science methodology to study the complexities of rolling-out policies that promote immediate postpartum long-acting reversible ...
In the Public Health Review podcast debut, host Robert Johnson speaks with public health officials from Alaska, Kentucky, and West Virginia about the ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S. and its intersections with other epidemics like ...
Co-authors from CDC and the Alzheimer’s Association provide details about the new 2018-2023 Healthy Brain Initiative Road Map, which offers strategies for public health agencies to promote cognitive health and support people living with ...
State and territorial health officials gathered on Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers and discuss public health priorities—learn more about Hill Day in this blog post.
Good news and bad news on tobacco use: smoking rates are down but e-cigarette use continuing rapid rise among youth. Read how states are combating the problem.
Learn about chairs of key committees in the 119th Congress, their priorities, and what may be in store for public health funding in this federal health policy update.
Learn how health agencies are prioritizing children’s health as they develop public health emergency preparedness planning in this blog.