Overcoming Baked-In Inequities and Promoting Health Equity in the Island Areas
This blog describes the island areas COVID-19 successes and their cultural and historical context.
This blog describes the island areas COVID-19 successes and their cultural and historical context.
Learn how state health and transportation agencies are partnering to improve physical access to healthcare.
Partner Spotlight: Q&A with Lilly Kan, Project Director, The Pew Charitable Trusts Q&A: Importance of Data Sharing Between Healthcare & Public Health ASTHO Staff Lilly Kan, project director at The Pew Charitable Trusts, ...
Assessing the future of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Illinois Strengthens Public Health Infrastructure with New Data Modernization Director Alicia Camuy Learn how Illinois is using Public Health Infrastructure Grant funding to promote data modernization. As COVID-19 demonstrated, robust data ...
COVID-19 revealed the dire straits of public health; now, with renewed funding, public health leaders discuss how to use COVID funding to build and maintain sustainable infrastructure.
As COVID-19 spread across the country, misinformation and conspiracy theories led to beliefs that the virus was a hoax and prevention measures were unnecessary. Efforts to limit public health authority resulted in reduced confidence from ...
As the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, ASTHO is committed to the T in our name. The health officials from the territories and freely-associated states are valued members and we are committed to advocating for the ...
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, deliver a clear message, organize the ...
On Feb. 24, 2021, ASTHO member and public health leader Ngozi Ezike, MD, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee. Ezike answered questions in the hearing, ...
On Sept. 24, 2020, ASTHO released data from the Profile of State and Territorial Public Health. Findings indicate that in the lead-up to COVID-19 public health agencies around the U.S. continues to provide critical services to their ...