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 ...
Voices from Public Health AmeriCorps (PHA) offer insights into the benefits gained at PHA and detail the program's experiential learning and professional development opportunities. ... Building Public Health Leaders: Voices from Public ...
ASTHO Statement on Resignation of CDC Director ASTHO Statement on Resignation of CDC Director Fitzgerald ARLINGTON, VA—The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) president and executive director issued the following ...
HiAP Strategy Works in States, Locally to Meet Equity Challenges in COVID-19 Response HiAP Strategy Works in States, Locally to Meet Equity Challenges in COVID-19 Response While governments have faced challenges in adopting a Health in All ...
How Pennsylvania Health Department’s Cross-Sector Partnerships Are Strengthening Climate and Environmental Justice health department, pennsylvania department of health, climate change, low income neighborhoods, heart disease, mental ...
Senate Discussion Draft Eliminates Important Public Health Programs; Pushes Costs to States ARLINGTON, VA—Michael Fraser, executive director of ASTHO, issued the following statement today on the Senate’s discussion draft of the healthcare ...
Interpretive phenomenologist Jennifer Thomas talks about the importance of words and their impact on the public health workforce. ... Your Words Matter Interpretive phenomenologist Jennifer Thomas talks about the importance of words and ...
ASTHO Applauds Bipartisan Budget Deal ASTHO Applauds 2018 Bipartisan Budget Deal ARLINGTON, VA—Today, President Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 into law ending the very brief government shutdown. John Wiesman, ASTHO’s ...
On Oct. 13, 2022, ASTHO CMO Marcus Plescia released a statement supporting ACIP's decision to encourage adding COVID-19 vaccinations to standard immunization schedules. ... Statement from ASTHO on COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations On ...
Developing Internal Quality Improvement and Performance Management Training Modules Training modules can enhance staff capabilities in quality improvement and performance management methodologies, improving organizational efficiency and ...
ASTHO Executive Director Michael Fraser Responds to the Affordable Care Act Replacement Bill ARLINGTON, VA—“While millions of Americans may experience changes in their insurance coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act “repeal and ...
Increasing and maintaining vaccine coverage is an important way to prevent the spread of disease and keep communities healthy. Efforts to reduce COVID-19 transmission, such as social distancing, led to fewer people seeking non-urgent ...
ASTHO Legislative Prospectus | Previewing 2024 state legislative actions on reproductive health. ... SB 112), New Jersey (NJ SB 275), New York (NY AB 1060), Rhode Island (RI SB 103), and Vermont (VT HB 305)—enacted bills authorizing ...
Guam Guam is an unincorporated U.S. territory in the western Pacific. It lies on the other side of the international date line from the continental U.S. For context, Guam is approximately eight hours, by plane, west of Hawaii. Guam’s ...
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. ... Strategies for ...
ASTHO, with support from CDC, launched the first cohort of the Linking Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Clinical Outcomes Data Multi-Jurisdiction Learning Community in October 2021. This brief examines themes that emerged ...
This interview is part of ASTHO’s Leadership Trailblazers series, which shares outstanding public health leaders’ inspirations, motivations, and accomplishments. This post features José Romero, MD, the former state health official in ...
Laura Parajón, MD, MPH, deputy cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Department of Health details the process of building a pilot internship program with the University of New Mexico. ... Building Innovative Public Health Internship ...
Learn about the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion in public health—three pillars that are crucial to building healthier societies. ... described as whatever is necessary to get a person, family, population, or community to the ...
Environmental Health Programs and Services Portal In 2019, ASTHO fielded the Environmental Health Programs and Services Survey to environmental health directors within state and territorial health agencies to understand the location of ...