Strengthening Grant Management Functions in Puerto Rico ASTHO | Toolkit helps to optimize grant activities and funds in Puerto Rico The Grants Management Office Structure Optimization Toolkit helps to assess a health department's ...
How Staffing and Workload Can Impact Public Health Agencies Kelsey Tillema Public health is combating burnout and high turnover by focusing on key practices to improve workforce infrastructure—learn more in this blog post. Public health ...
Missouri Takes Strategic Steps to Improve Policy Processes Colton Anderson Learn in this blog post how Missouri’s department of health is improving its internal policies and building a more robust agency by partnering with ASTHO. Why ...
This brief draws on health officials’ experiences in territories and Freely Associated States to illustrate opportunities to lead improvement efforts by building relationships, committing to data use, establishing regular communication, ...
A Difficult Week for Public Health: The Cost of Incomplete Efforts The Cost of Incomplete Public Health Efforts Due to Funding Cuts Susan Kansagra Hear from ASTHO's chief medical officer who discusses the implications of funding cuts ...
Flexibility of PHHS Block Grant Supports Health Equity in Communities astho, association of state and territorial health officials, public health, phhs block grant, health equity, social determinants of health, preventive health and health ...
Upgrading how public health and healthcare systems share data.
How states are building sustainable health equity programs.
Public Health’s Silent Defender: Cybersecurity ASTHO, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Public health, health sector coordinating council, strategic preparedness, preparedness and response, ASPR, HHS, cybersecurity, ...
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, ...
State issued documents, such as birth certificates, are often required to navigate daily life. Vital records policy is a complex and evolving issue with many of the processes and procedures left to jurisdictional policy-makers.
ASTHO has identified health equity and rural health as issues that policymakers across the country will consider in 2022.
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.
Measuring Health Equity for Planning and Performance Improvement astho, association of state and territorial health officials, environmental scan, health equity, health equity metrics, health equity strategies, social determinants of ...
This summary of our annual environmental scan identifies public health concerns and trends and health agencies’ top current and emerging priorities.
Recipient Orientation Handbook for OD2A State and LOCAL Cooperative Agreements overdose prevention, substance use disorder, overdose crisis, opioid overdoses, principal investigators, project officer, grants management specialist, secure ...
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 ...