Colorado's New Online Mentorship Initiative Supports Local Public Health Agencies Elise Moore Learn how CDPHE developed an online mentorship program to enhance local public health leadership, with tips for other health departments. The ...
Learn how embedding disability specialists into health agencies improved preparedness programs and initiatives in this blog.
Strategies for Accessible Health Care for People with Disabilities Living in Rural Communities Accessible Healthcare for People with Disabilities Association of state and territorial health officials, astho, public health, people with ...
A brief recap of the 2023 fall legislative session on the Hill, especially as it pertains to public health.
ASTHO’s 2023 Public Health TechXpo and Futures Forum is a platform to tackle the toughest public health challenges facing the nation, both today and in the future.
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 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated and kept public health top of mind world-wide. One issue highlighted by the pandemic that has been keenly felt in New York State and Rhode Island is housing policy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of we go about preparing and responding to public health threats. In collaboration with CDC, ASTHO embarked on an initiative to identify effective resources, policies, and model practices ...
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 ...
Public health is rapidly changing, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health professionals are having to navigate their way through these changes all while remaining steadfast in their ability to help their communities. With ...
ASTHO convened a Workforce Think Tank for public health leaders in 2021 during which Trista Harris—a philanthropic futurist—identified the seven trends most likely to impact the future public health workforce: sector shifts, pivot to the ...
Advanced Grant Payments: Creating a More Equitable Public Health System Advanced Grant Payments Promote Equity in Public Health Jignasa Jani, Ryan Rivera Learn how advanced grant payments can ensure smaller community-based organizations ...
The impact of the COVID-19 response on the public health workforce has been profoundly felt by employees and the agencies they serve. Across the country, unplanned leadership transitions, early retirements, and personnel scale-ups have all ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, health agencies are ensuring that their focus does not drift from the fight to end the HIV epidemic. Resiliency is key to continue to make progress in this decades-long fight.
A Blueprint for Establishing a Health Equity or Minority Health Office 30:38 minutes Learn how to form and manage an office of health equity or minority health, based on several firsthand experiences. Listen to the podcast episode now. ...
This episode explains what the Shared Risk and Protective Factors framework is, and how states and territories can collaborate with a broader range of partners to implement research-based programs, policies, practices, and strategies that ...
This episode will focus on lessons learned from Oregon Health Authority’s cyanotoxin education and outreach efforts, and how a water contamination emergency caused by cyanotoxins can quickly become a public information emergency. Three ...
In its role supporting state and territorial health agencies, offering technical assistance, and building capacity, ASTHO has committed to using resources and research literature to verify the status of evidence for approaches that states ...
ASTHO and CDC's Maria Michaels outline how public health agencies can better intersect with healthcare to help ensure that clinical guidelines are implemented as intended and result in the desired health actions and outcomes.