While the Biden Administration and Congress have no shortage of immediate health issues to focus on, improving maternal health outcomes—particularly Black maternal morbidity and mortality—have become a priority for federal lawmakers. To ...
November 18 is National Rural Health Day, a commemoration started by State Offices of Rural Health to recognize the power and resilience of rural communities. Twenty percent of the U.S. population lives in rural communities. Recognizing ...
Scientists are working quickly to develop a safe and effective vaccine to provide immunity to COVID-19. Once a vaccine is approved, it will likely be imperative for states to authorize as many health care professionals to administer it, ...
In August 2020, the Big Cities Health Coalition and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials released a co-produced public service announcement to support public education in our members’ communities. The call to action in ...
ASTHO works to help public health agencies prepare for significant public health emergencies, such as pandemics, and develop comprehensive emergency response strategies.
ASTHO helps improve public health agencies’ performance and infrastructure by offering resources and tools for performance management, quality improvement, and accreditation.
ASTHO is proud to provide public health agencies with coaching, facilitation, peer connections, and other tools for long- and short-term planning to reach national standards.
ASTHO promotes State and Territorial public health agency Administrative Readiness (STAR) by providing high quality resources and opportunities to bolster capacity.
This report contains lessons learned and examples of messaging strategies that were successful during cyanobacterial bloom responses, they were collected from 17 state health agency staff members across 12 states.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) strategy to address lead poisoning prevention. ASTHO held key informant interviews with staff from four state health agencies to learn more about their state ...
In recent years, tick-borne disease cases in the U.S. have almost doubled. The case studies and analyses in this report may serve as a guide as states respond to similar problems in their jurisdictions.
This report highlights how the North Dakota Department of Health and its partners tested health information technology approaches to improve blood pressure measurement and referral systems in eight local health units and one tribal ...
This report presents findings from ASTHO’s 2017 Mosquito Control Survey, including information from thirty-eight jurisdictions about the organizational structure of mosquito control activities and the roles of key external partnerships at ...
Environmental Health Policy Guides Environmental health is concerned with how interactions between humans and their environments impact human health. The field emerged to protect people from chemical or biological threats in their ...
Early Brain Development Approaches for Public Health Leaders This pair of infographics details different approaches that public health leaders can take to ensure healthy early brain development. They include strategies and state examples. ...
ASTHO produced this guide to be applicable to state health departments seeking public health accreditation through Public Health Accreditation Board as well as to those developing a State Health Improvement Plan but are not seeking ...
Puerto Rico The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated U.S. territory in the northeast Caribbean Sea. Like the residents of the other Island Areas, Puerto Ricans lack full voting representation in Congress. They typically do not ...
Republic of the Marshall Islands The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is an independent nation in the western Pacific that lies on the other side of the international date line from the continental U.S. Relationship With the United ...