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 away and suggests ways to hold lawmakers accountable, to illustrate for community me...
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...
This story discusses how American leaders and pundits have been trying to call an end to the pandemic and how this mindset not only compromises the nation’s a...
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 report proposes eight recommendations to strengthen America’s health security and secure U.S. global leadership in the next phase of pandemic respons...
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 document describes the critical work needed to transform U.S. capabilities to respond rapidly and effectively to any future pandemic or high consequence bi...
This White House plan lays out a roadmap for fighting COVID-19 in the future as we begin to get back to our more normal routines. The plan focuses on four key g...
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 report provides an overview of the current coverage and payment of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments across payers, identifies expected gaps in coverage aft...
This article explores the importance of accessibility implementation during normal times, and points out that the current COVID-19 pandemic highlights just how ...
This report examines the varied and sometimes conflicting governmental responses to the pandemic and outlines 37 actionable recommendations across four intergov...
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 story outlines the general failure of vaccine mandates in California, particularly in those that focus on children. The need for education, public informat...
This story highlights three COVID-19 outreach initiatives that use peer-to-peer communication with trusted messengers and other evidence-based strategies to eas...
This summit hopes to address future challenges in public health, specifically discussing how law, governance, and finance are all intertwined and essential for ...
This video features a discussion between explores, who explore the underlying causes of the pandemic’s disparate impact on communities of color as well as...
This tool allows users to explore COVID-19 and flu data in their communities. Users can view self-reported data and government-reported date. They can also cont...
This website highlights the efforts of health care, governmental and community organizations across the country that are providing resources to minoritized and ...
This webpage highlights resources from ChangeLab Solutions to help inform public officials and community leaders about how preemption can affect their efforts t...
This webpage contains a curated collection of COVID-19 resources from Local Solutions Support Center’s partners. It is organized by topic area, which incl...
This initiative explores lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic on how to best support government efforts to collect and deliver comprehensive real-time inf...
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 paper was prepared as part of Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19. It covers the effects of preemption on economic recovery, how preemption impacts exist...
This article discusses how the government can better use data and new technologies to cope with new outbreaks with the goal to protect the nation’s health...
This data story provides charts that compare payments from the Coronavirus Relief Fund and the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund for the top 15 states.
This data story explains the difference between prime-recipients and sub-recipients.
This article provides information on how governments, businesses and civil society organizations can work together make the internet better and more inclusive i...
This infographic outlines why preemption matters for public health. It provides the definition of preemption as well as its implications for community-driven po...
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 includes a summary of the status of related reporting on contact tracing and discussion of the impact of increasing levels of community spread on st...
This report from the Partnership for Public Service provides information on emergency preparedness and response in the public services. Recommendations are prov...
The report summarizes an approach for assessing negative and positive effects of preemption on health equity. It outlines a research and advocacy agenda for bui...
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 discusses rebuilding the U.S. Public Health system with a new generation of highly trained, diverse public health professionals. It calls on curren...
This article provides information on Biden’s public health workforce plan and the long term public health goals of the administration.
This chart provides links to key reopening orders and/or mitigation measures affecting the private sector issued at the statewide level.
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 guide describes strategic skills for the governmental public health workforce, recommendations for workforce development, and potential actions that can be...
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.
A conversation with Mr. Yannis Kotziagkiaouridis, a Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer, about the Edelman Trust Barometer and the implications of declining...
This webpage provides information on the importance of cross-sector collaboration to address multiple community needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. It al...
This webpage discusses the significance and methods for community health needs assessment in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights specific community ...
This webpage offers instruction on how children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic diseases, disabilities, and mental health disorders can appro...
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 chart outlines the authorities of various departments/federal branches/agencies during public health emergencies to clarify the “chain of commandR...
This webpage by the Department of Health and Human Services provides general information about the Secretary’s legal authorities during public health and ...
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 journal article discusses how government agencies around the world struggle to retain frontline workers as high job demands and low job resources contribut...
This journal article addresses the role of governments in promoting confidence in the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines through effective communicat...
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 articles describes the challenges faced by public health and healthcare leaders in trust-building. It also includes strategies to combat issues like attach...
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 book outlines a systems approach for public health, discussing the need for a population-based framework for practice, research, policy, and community enga...
This article discusses how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is now committing $100 million to address health care worker shortages through the ...
This blog outlines the implications of the Biden Administration’s continuation of the public health emergency (PHE) declaration and what it means for fede...
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 discusses the need for and potential of partnerships between private organizations and governments to develop surveillance systems in order to prev...
This chart is intended to help state, territory, local, and tribal governments with COVID-19 efforts. It provides a short overview of indicators of success and ...
This report is intended to help policymakers prepare for future public health emergencies based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides ten r...
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 report provides a status update on how Southern states in the United States have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The key indicators are organized i...
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 document presents a national strategy for the federal government, as well as state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, health care providers, busi...
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 policy brief focuses on how historic maltreatment of communities of color and tribal nations, along with current day structural racism, have created distru...
This toolkit offers resources and strategies for care delivery organizations, health plans, and state and local governments to ensure everyone has access to lif...
This resource hub highlights useful resources from governmental public health, academia, think tanks, and nonprofits to support local health departments in desi...
This webpage offers a collection of COVID-19policy solutions that prioritize health equity. It includes blog posts with immediate solutions for communities and ...
This editorial discusses the need for LGBTQ-specific data and examines the role of the federal government to address this data gap.
This report provides considerations for equitably prioritizing testing resources to communities at greatest risk as states and local governments face shortages ...
The webinar series provides trustworthy scientific analysis of the latest COVID-19 developments for the benefit of policymakers, public health and health care o...
This report identifies and analyzes the policy challenges and opportunities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has six main sections, including the role of t...
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America highlights scores of actions that communities, organiz...
This resource provides access to a comprehensive list of policies and plans implemented globally to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Each policy or plan has been ...
This blog post discusses eight learning experiences that have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and how countries, governments, organizations, and individuals ...
Community Health Workers partner with community members to advance health and well-being, elevating the wisdom of communities and the expertise of residents by ...
Organizations across all sectors have been sharing experiences and tools, and scrambling to innovate creative new resources in response to COVID-19. This period...
This blog unpacks the need for conscious language and messaging around COVID-19, and the potential to advance allyship with communities of color.
To help communities and local governments strengthen their response to COVID-19 and advance health equity, ChangeLab Solutions is publishing a blog series about...
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s Active Transportation Policy Hub is a search tool to empower transportation advocates, legislators, government officials and...