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This resource explores legal challenges to public health policies and offers strategies for prevention and defense. It aims to help public health professionals ...

This resource delves into Indiana’s increase in public health spending by 1,500 percent in 2023 amidst strained trust in governmental public health nation...

This resource examines the impact of Public Health AmeriCorps, particularly the Minnesota Public Health Corps, in addressing workforce shortages and building ca...

This resource examines how US courts have increasingly constrained public health legal powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly regarding mitigation or...

This resource is a longitudinal dataset that captures laws addressing authority to respond to public health emergencies enacted between May 21, 2022, and April ...

This repository contains data on legal threats to public health authority beween January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022. The six available data sets concern state le...

This article covers new data released by the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law regarding the legislative sess...

Act for Public Health provides direct support to public health departments and others through consultation, training, legal technical assistance, research, and ...

This Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report enumerates the essential, concrete, near-term steps that will return the CDC to a pathway of h...

This story explores how after a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people in the United States alone, very little about the federal government has changed...

This blog post discusses how local communities are shaping solutions to counter preemption laws and give everyone a fair and just opportunity for health. 

This report explores the ways that public health authority is being eroded and suggests ways to hold lawmakers accountable, illustrate to community members...

This report summarizes the findings of the two-part review of the CDC, which included the scientific and programmatic review, and the structural review. It iden...

The third in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together nearly 1,500 participants that ...

This brief details an analysis, informed by the COVID-19 pandemic, that was completed to estimate the number of state and local public health department staff n...

This document describes a multi-year, billion-plus dollar effort to modernize core data and surveillance infrastructure across the federal and state public...

This article discusses the role of governmental public health in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and stresses that policymakers and practitioners need to prio...

This report tracks federal, state, and local investment in public health and how underinvestment in public health programs impacted the COVID-19 response, exace...

This report discusses how investments in public health not only improve the health of society but also advance equity and foster economic and climate resiliency...

This report outlines recommendations for building a national public health system that addresses ongoing and future health crises, advances equity, and earns tr...

This blog post examines the role of state policies in reducing systemic racism within the public health sector. The impacts of existing state policies, like dec...

This webinar introduces the roles of various levels of government in public health policymaking and the ways that preemption is interfering with local democrati...

This summit discusses future challenges in public health, specifically how law, governance, and finance are all intertwined and essential for strong public heal...

This webpage highlights resources from ChangeLab Solutions to help inform public officials and community leaders about how preemption can affect their efforts t...

This journal article outlines what legal powers governments have, what the role of the courts is, and how public health can be balanced with personal and econom...

This infographic outlines why preemption matters for public health. It provides the definition of preemption, as well as its implications for community-driven p...

This webpage provides a deep well of information for public health experts, business preparedness leaders, government officials, and the public on COVID-19.

This presentation explores the connections between preemption, public health, and equity. It also contains information regarding how preemption can hinder or ad...

This report from the Partnership for Public Service provides information on emergency preparedness and response in the public services. Recommendations are prov...

This article outlines the concept of preemption and how this concept has been evolving in recent years, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This re...

This resource contains an overview of preemption, describes how it can affect health equity, and outlines generally how local authority is granted in different ...

This legal memo outlines legal authority of local health officers and local governments in the state of California to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It outli...

TRAIN is a learning platform that provides access to a national catalog of trainings developed by government agencies, universities, professional associations, ...

This article provides information on Biden’s public health workforce plan and the long term public health goals of the administration.

This journal article provides novel information on the state of the U.S. public health workforce, using data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Need...

This paper presents a new public health workforce taxonomy and explains the process in which it was developed.

This journal article examines the role of public health scientific guidelines in the adjudication of legal challenges to mandatory orders adopted as part of the...

This curriculum provides law training for state and local officials on how to balance public health authority against individual liberty using the U.S. constitu...

This map identifies structural differences of public health governance structures across states to understand the roles, responsibilities, and authorizes for se...

This article discusses legal limits on government actions during the health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webpage offers instructions on how children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic diseases, disabilities, and mental health disorders can appr...

This webpage is a running list of public health emergency declarations from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the type of ...

This webinar highlights federal and state laws like HIPPA that affect public health’s ability to share COVID-19 information and data.

This webinar shares results from a national survey on criminal statutes that protect public health officials, analyzes burnout and employee turnover, and discus...

An introduction to administrative law, this webinar explains how public health agencies can implement and enforce their policies and programs at all government ...

This webinar explores the nature of recent laws and legislation in various states and explains principles that should guide future legislation to include facts,...

Amidst dissatisfaction and anger at public health officials in response to COVID-19, this webinar organized with National Association of County and City Health ...

This report explores the history of public health authority, including longstanding and recent efforts to undermine it. It provides arguments to counter propose...

This article explains the legality of public health emergency declarations including compulsory powers, health assessments, quarantine, and travel restrictions.

This article discusses the interdisciplinary functions of public health, the effects of legacy systems and policies on the sector’s response to COVID-19, ...

This publication explains common questions and answers about the role of state of local public health departments and boards of health in public health regulati...

This data bank is a compilation of the best practices and lessons learned that communities faced fighting COVID-19.

This chapter of The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century explores the state of governmental public health infrastructure, including the role ...

This article discusses the barriers to modernization of the public health system posed by existing regulatory structures and suggests priority areas for utilizi...

This story gives examples of recent legislation aimed at weakening public health authority and discusses rising rates of burnout among officials.

This blog post, which is accompanied by a webinar, defines administrative law, explains where public health agencies sit within the U.S. governmental system, an...

This article examines how the nation may less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for COVID-19, partly through the story of a family physician in Washing...

This article explores how new states laws passed during COVID-19 curtail health agencies’ emergency powers to invoke restrictions like quarantines and mas...

This article from the UK examines the relationship between public trust and science, the consequences of losing trust, and emerging government strategies.

This article describes how Boston University faculty analyzed data from the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports provide insight on how people’s mov...

This article presents the findings of a survey on public perception of the role of government in society and public support for safety-net measures, including h...

This article makes the case for increasing support and funding from federal and state governments for the charitable food system. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic a...

This editorial discusses the need for LGBTQ-specific data and examines the role of the federal government to address this data gap.

To help communities and local governments strengthen their response to COVID-19 and advance health equity, ChangeLab Solutions is publishing a blog series about...