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Equity Diversity Inclusion Action Toolkit for Organizations

This toolkit is a first step for any organization to implement Equity Diversity Inclusion or E-D-I practices. Using this toolkit, board and staff members can as...

White Paper-Stopping COVID-19: Short Term Actions for Long-Term Impact

This white paper presents the results of an analysis by MITRE and other experts on how to disrupt the COVID-19 pandemic’s trajectory. It calls for stronge...

Coronavirus COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Healthcare Professionals

This webpage is intended to help support healthcare professionals with navigating the COVID-19 landscape. It provides healthcare guidance, information on how to...

Population Health Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic

This blog post highlights key points from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s interview with Dr. Kara Odom Walker who shares her expertise and insi...

COVID-19: Care of Older Adults

This webpage contains a collection of resources curated by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on how to healthcare in the context of older adults.

Planning for On-Campus K-12 Education During COVID-19

This guide is intended as a resource for school leaders to help them discuss, develop, and implement plans for returning to on-campus learning.

Rural Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

This guide provides resources and information on how rural communities can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes topics such as protecting against COVID...

CDC

This webpage contains a searchable compilation of free imagery from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Image Library.

MCD Global e-Training and Technical Assistance Center

This website offers a variety of online trainings for community health workers and healthcare workers in the United States and around the world.

COVID-19 Responses & Resources

This webpage provides a compilation of evidence-based resources created and curated by the National Academies to inform COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. ...

Managing Mental Health during COVID-19

This webpage is intended for healthcare professionals and presents strategies and resources to manage their mental health while caring for patients.

Coronavirus (COVID19): How You Can Help

This webpage outlines fundraising initiatives aimed at addressing COVID-19, including a telemedicine program, a student emergency fund, and more.

COVID-19: Symptoms, Safety, Protecting Family & More

This webpage offers a compiled list of COVID-19 facts, including information about how COVID spreads, how to protect yourself, testing, treatment, contact traci...

Coronavirus COVID-19: Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment

This webpage contains information about supplies and personal protective equipment shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically targeted towards hospita...

Top COVID-19 Resources for CHWs

This fact sheet provides insight into the best resources and biggest challenges in community healthcare amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 PPE Shortage

This webpage is continually updated with information from the American Medical Association regarding COVID-19 PPE shortages.

COVID-19: How can the US contain the current rate of infection

This video includes several stories about the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, particularly during the spread of the Delta variant. Topics covered include booster s...

Statements on CDC’s recommendation for public on cloth masks

This webpage offers information regarding CDC recommendations for mask-wearing early on in the pandemic. It emphasizes the need to prioritize certain masks for ...

New Public Health Workforce Resilience Resource Library

This webpage is a collection of resources that can be used to help public health workers build resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, including fact s...

COVID-19 Data Tracker

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement provides access to a COVID-19 Data Tracker via this webpage. This tool can be used to demonstrate COVID-19 trends, incl...

Slowing the Spread of COVID-19 Will Protect Communities

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...

Shared Stewardship in Health Care

The guide describes how all members of the health care workforce can act as leaders to ensure all people can reach their full potential. The guide introduces th...

Public Health Data Interoperability

This webpage strives to ensure that electronic health information is shared appropriately between healthcare and public health partners in the right format, thr...

The Bridge Between Public Health Education and Government Workforce Needs Fixing

This article discusses rebuilding the U.S. Public Health system with a new generation of highly trained, diverse public health professionals.

Workplaces and Businesses

This webpage provides information on how to prevent and reduce transmission and maintain healthy business operations in non-healthcare workplaces.

Rural Healthcare Workforce

This webpage provides information on the status of the public health workforce in rural communities. Additional detail and context is added in a Q&A sectio...

Preventing and Mitigating COVID-19 at Work: Policy Brief

This website provides a document that is intended for public health and labor authorities, businesses, employers, workers and their representatives at the natio...

Education and Training of the Rural Healthcare Workforce

This webpage provides information on the training and education needs of the public health workforce in rural communities. Additional detail and context is adde...

Preventing and Mitigating COVID-19 at Work: Policy Brief 19 May 2021

The document is intended for public health and labour authorities, businesses, employers, workers and their representatives at the national, local and workplace...

Public Health Law 101: A Foundational Course For Public Health Practitioners

This course was developed to provide practitioners, students and healthcare professionals a basis knowledge of public health law; it comprises nine lecture unit...

Community Needs Assessment COVID-19 Update Template

This webpage links to a tool for community needs assessment, provided by Community Action Partnership. Two versions of the tool are available, a comprehensive g...

Current Emergencies

This toolkit provides coronavirus disease press releases from 2019 regarding telehealth, clinical, technical, billing, coding, Medicaid, Medicare and open payme...

Invest in Trust: A Guide for Building COVID-19 Vaccine Trust and Increasing Vaccination Rates Among CNAs

This guide helps nursing home leaders build COVID-19 vaccine confidence among CNAs and overcome barriers to vaccination by applying social, behavioral and cogni...

Well-Being Resources Should Extend Beyond A Crisis To Include PTSD

This article advocates for increasing available mental health support resources for healthcare workers facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Emphasis is placed on the n...

COVID-19 Taking A Disproportionate Toll On Female Healthcare Workers

This webpage discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the effect of healthcare worker burnout in female healthcare professionals. It reviews th...

Burnout, Alcohol, PTSD: Health Workers Are Suffering

This webpage discusses the mental health issues facing healthcare workers in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a personal account of challenges specifi...

‘A Sinking Ship’: Pandemic’s Mental Health Toll Continues to Roil Health Care Workers

This article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers. The article explores the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Medical Burnout: Breaking Bad

This article discusses the medical burnout health care providers are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests five practical changes that can be i...

Public Health And Trust

This audio piece covers public health, and how they talk to us, the public. What gets people’s attention and cooperation? What creates resentment and rebe...

Addressing Community Needs And Preparing For The Secondary Impacts Of COVID-19

This webpage provides information on the importance of cross-sector collaboration to address multiple community needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. It al...

Burnout Among Healthcare Workers In The COVID 19 Era: A Review Of The Existing Literature

This journal article provides a review of the existing literature on burnout in the healthcare worker population in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through th...

The Pandemic Has Devastated The Mental Health Of Public Health Workers

This article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health workers. It describes pathways by which the pandemic has affected rates of depressio...

The Disproportionate Impact Of COVID-19 On Black Health Care Workers In The U.S.

This article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black healthcare workers. It provides a description of the unique challenges facing Black healthca...

Avoiding COVID-19 Burnout: Self-Care And Resiliency For Public Health Leaders

This webinar introduces participants and viewers to methods and tools that can be used to increase resiliency in public health professionals. The discussion rev...

7 Solutions To Protect Public Health Workers From Burnout And Other Mental Health Issues

This webpage discusses organizational strategies that could be used to protect healthcare workers, prevent burnout and other mental health concerns. Seven tips ...

KFF/Post Survey Reveals The Serious Mental Health Challenges Facing Frontline Health Care Workers A Year Into The COVID-19 Pandemic

This webpage provides information on the mental health risks facing frontline and healthcare workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides background inform...

How Health Care Leaders Can Support Their Frontline Workers

This webpage discusses strategies that can be adopted by healthcare leaders to support frontline workers. It provides a list of such strategies and explains the...

Health Workers Face ‘indescribable’ Mental, Physical Exhaustion As Covid Fills Hospitals

This news article describes the stress and mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers within hospital systems. It provides a healthcar...

Caught Between Parents And Politicians, Nurses Fear Another School Year With COVID-19

This article discusses nurses’ approach to managing and mitigating the risks of COVID-19 within the school system. It emphasizes the unique positioning of...

Telehealth In The Time Of COVID-19

This webpage provides a living summary of actions, updates and changes made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as other federal agencies...

Building The Community Health Workforce Of The Future, Presented By Partners In Health

This webinar covers the essential role of this(partners in health) community-based workforce.

Prioritizing Equity Video Series: Trustworthiness And Vaccines

This webinar explores misinformation, trustworthiness and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals.

How Kaiser Permanente Fights Inequity In The Face Of COVID-19

This video covers what Kaiser Permanente is doing to address inequities in health care.

Rebuilding Trust After COVID-19: U.S. Healthcare Experts Weigh In

This video piece looks at some of the lessons that the new U.S. administration can learn from the pandemic.

The Practice Transformation Journey

This is a report describing ways in which the American Medical Association is supporting healthcare workers in light of increasing rates of burnout and other me...

Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach To Professional Well-Being

This webpage introduces a report from the National Academy of Medicine, advocating for prioritization of clinician mental health to reduce rates of burnout. A d...

Surveys Of Trust In The U.S. Health Care System

This presentation reports key findings and data from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s surveys of trust in the U.S. Healthcare system.

Supporting Frontline Staff During The COVID-19 Pandemic

This journal article provides information on the current understanding of healthcare worker response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also discusses ways in which o...

Racial And Gender Discrimination Predict Mental Health Outcomes Among Healthcare Workers Beyond Pandemic-Related Stressors: Findings From A Cross-Sectional Survey

This journal article provides data on the impact of race and gender on mental health outcomes in healthcare workers. It specifically studies the association bet...

Prioritizing The Mental Health And Well-Being Of Healthcare Workers: An Urgent Global Public Health Priority

This journal article discusses the importance of making healthcare worker mental health a public health priority. It reviews the literature and also provides ke...

Healthcare Worker’s Emotions, Perceived Stressors And Coping Mechanisms During The COVID-19 Pandemic

This journal article provides an introduction to research on healthcare workers’ attitude and coping mechanisms in facing risks inherent to COVID-19. The ...

Compassion Fatigue Among Healthcare, Emergency And Community Service Workers: A Systematic Review

This journal article provides a systematic review of the existing literature on compassion fatigue and healthcare worker burnout. It emphasizes and explains the...

Women In Healthcare Experiencing Occupational Stress And Burnout During COVID-19: A Rapid Review

This journal article aims to identify the causes of occupational stress and burnout in women in medicine, nursing and other health professions during the COVID-...

What Support Do Frontline Workers Want? A Qualitative Study Of Health And Social Care Workers’ Experiences And Views Of Psychosocial Support During The COVID-19 Pandemic

This journal article provides background information and data concerning the mental health status and needs of frontline and social care workers in the UK. The ...

Principles To Consider For The Implementation Of A Community Health Needs Assessment Process

This document identifies guiding principles to inform the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s community health needs assessment provisions applica...

The Role of the Police Power in 21st Century Public Health

This article reviews the constitutional basis of the police power, its historical use in public health, and the structural reasons why health departments preocc...

The Burden Of Burnout Among Healthcare Professionals Of Intensive Care Units And Emergency Departments During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review

This journal article evaluates the burnout prevalence among healthcare workers (HCWs) in intensive care units (ICUs) and emergency departments (EDs) during the ...

Prevalence Of Depression, Anxiety And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Health Care Workers During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis

This journal article discusses updated prevalence estimates for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among health care workers during ...

Prevalence And Correlates Of Stress And Burnout Among U.S. Healthcare Workers During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Cross-Sectional Survey Study

This journal article provides a comprehensive view of how stress and burnout during the pandemic have impacted healthcare team members.

Trust In Public Health Is Essential Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic

This articles describes the challenges faced by public health in trust building and strategies to combat issues like attachment to freedom and self-determinatio...

Developing And Maintaining Public Trust During And Post-COVID-19: Can We Apply A Model Developed For Responding To Food Scares?

This paper discusses how a food safety incident model for developing trust in public health officials might be applied to pandemic response. Strategies include ...

Trust Is The Engine Of Change: A Conceptual Model For Trust Building In Health Systems

This article examines trust at the theory level and within community-based health systems. It considers reciprocity as central to the process of trust building ...

Rural Public Health Agencies

This topic guide provides an overview of rural public health agencies, including FAQs, resources, funding and opportunities, events, and models and innovations....

Assessing And Addressing Community Health Needs

This book was developed to help not-for-profit health care organizations strengthen their assessment and community benefit planning processes.

How Do We Lead On Equity? Hint: Avoid A Routine Approach And Focus On Building Trust

This resource highlights two key frameworks that allow for authentic engagement. The collective trauma recovery and weaver-leader frameworks

Bringing The Invisible Battle Into View: Understanding Health Care Stressors And Mental Well-Being In COVID-19 Frontline Workers

This report details how COVID-19 has amplified preexisting challenges of burnout, distress, and maintaining well-being and provides a list of proactive approach...

The Federal Government Pledges $100 Million To Address Health Care Worker Shortages

This article discusses how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is now committing $100 million through the American Rescue Plan

Health Workers Know What Good Care Is. Pandemic Burnout Is Getting In The Way

This story describes how burnout is affecting health care workers which in turn affects patient care. It explores solutions and implementing staff ideas for fix...

Half Of Health Workers Report Burnout Amid COVID-19

The article describes the impacts of burnout and stress on among health care workers. It describes effects on physicians and residents, disproportionate impacts...

COVID-19 Keeps Delivering Lessons About Health Care Worker Burnout. Will We Learn Them?

This article describes the mental health impacts of burnout among health care workers and steps health care leaders can take to implement changes.

Combating Burnout Among Nurses And Frontline Healthcare Workers

This blog explains the impact of burnout on clinicians and their view on the most pressing challenges.

Building Trust In COVID-19 Vaccines in Communities of Color Through Community Investment

This interview with Dr. Karen Emmons and Dr. Bisola Ojikutu explores how community investments can be implemented to assist in building vaccine trust in communi...

The Principles Of Trustworthiness

This toolkit outlines the principles of trustworthiness, details reasons and causes for mistrust of the health care system and offers suggested actions that org...

Public Health, Public Trust, And Faith Communities

This article reflects on the erosion of trust related to public health in the United States

Biden Administration Promises Predictability On Future Extensions Of The Public Health Emergency

This blog outlines the implications of the Biden Administration’s continuation of the public health emergency (PHE) declaration and what it means for fede...

Bring ‘Sources Of Healing’ To The Community: Building Confidence In COVID-19 Vaccines

This article uses Philadelphia as an example of how build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines using town halls, community engagement, and consideration of barriers ...

Lessons From Journalists On Building Trust With Local Communities During Crises

This article offers community organizations a novel perspective from the field of journalism on how to build trust with partner communities, focusing on three a...

To Make Progress, Focus On Building Trust

This blog post explores the relationship between public trust and health in the context of COVED-19. It focuses on trust within disenfranchised communities in a...

Building Trust Learning Network Resources

This repository of research, blogs, tools and news about addressing trust in health care is organized by topic area: health equity, misinformation, organization...

Insights into Health Equity After COVID-19

U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, and Affordable Care Act expert Daniel Dawes, JD , offer lessons from history and a path forward to help heal our na...

COVID-19 Employer Resources

This website provides briefs, town halls and webinars, videos, articles and webinars, apps, news media and other resources for employers from the National Allia...

COVID Minutes Podcast

This educational podcast series by UT Health San Antonio explores evolving issues in medicine, healthcare, and education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Resources for Essential Hospitals

This website provides resources and literature on best practices in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic for essential hospitals and healthcare systems. These resourc...

Resources for Professionals

This webpage lists a collection of tools for healthcare professionals looking for information on COVID-19 policies and procedures within the University of Oklah...

Social Media And Research Toolkit

This website houses the social media and research toolkit (SMART) with the aim of increasing patient engagement and involvement in research through the use of s...

Race and the Patient-Physician Relationship in 2021

This article discusses how race influences doctor-patient relationships, contributes health inequities, and suggests strategies for improving relationships and ...

CHWs in the Black Community in the Age of COVID-19: Frontline and Essential Responders

This slide deck discusses the role of community health workers (CHWs) in Black communities, how to support CHWs with addressing COVID-19, and the importance of ...

Telehealth

This webpage presents a list of resources to assist the health care community with implementation of safe, effective, equitable, and patient-centered telehealth...

COVID-19 Data Tracker: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

This tool shows the reported deaths from COVID-19 globally and for each state using Shewhart charts.

COVID-19: Healthcare Workers: Information on COVID-19

This webpage focuses on healthcare workers and provides guidance and information on how to care for patients, prevent and control COVID-19, safely operate healt...

COVID-19: Community, Work and School

This webpage provides guidance, strategies, and information on how to protect the health of students teachers, staff, employees, vulnerable groups, and communit...

Coronavirus COVID-19: Protecting & Enabling Health Care Workers

This webpage provides the latest information about how hospital and health system leaders can work to protect their health care staff and what individual should...

AMA, Ad Council COVID-19 Resources to Boost Vaccine Confidence

This webpage contains a collection of articles, websites, guides, webinars, and more to help support physicians whose patients who may have questions or concern...

6 Ways to Educate Rural Communities About the COVID-19 Vaccines

This article provides six recommendations on how to maximize impact when educating rural Americans about the COVID-19 vaccines.

Webinar: Organizational Resilience, Recovery, and Capacity

This webinar is part of a series, Re-designing for a High-Value, Equitable Health Care System in the Time of COVID, and explores opportunities for building orga...

The Way Forward on COVID-19

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...

Care for the Caregivers

This website is intended for caregivers to help ensure the health and safety of caregivers and their loved ones. It provides resources on how to build personal ...

Impact Covid Magazine

This online magazine shares the latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and stories of inspiration in communities around the United States.

COVID-19 Vaccine Resources

This repository provides COVID-19 vaccine resources including tools for leaders, fact sheets, data, surveys, posters, and infographics.

COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition

This repository was created by healthcare organizations, technology firms, nonprofits, academia and startups to help protect the U.S. population. This repositor...

Protecting Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: PHI Response & Resources

This webpage from the Public Health Institute features emerging science, best-practices and policy shifts that may affect how communities, healthcare and public...

COVID-19 Guidance and Resources

This website lists documents, tools, and resources collected by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Those resources offer information to hospitals, ...

Greater Than COVID: The Conversation

This webpage provides FAQ videos by health care experts that address the most common questions about the COVID vaccine, as well as social graphics, flyers, soci...

Racism and the COVID-19 Epidemic: Recommendations for Health Care Workers

This editorial highlights the effects of racism on the mental, physical, and emotional health of individuals and discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has negativ...

COVID-19’s Impact on Health of the Unsheltered

This infographic presents the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people experiencing unsheltered homelessness and provides short-term and long-term actions tha...

Back to School, Back Together: A Healthy Start for the 2021 School Year

This webpage is intended for schools and school districts to help plan a safe, healthy, and successful school year. It contains guides and other resources for t...

Together Toward Health: Supporting Communities Through COVID-19 and Beyond

This webpage introduces Public Health Institute’s Together Toward Health program and provides an overview of their achievements, partners, and projects.

Disability During a Pandemic: Student Reflections on Risk, Inequity, and Opportunity

This article focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people with disabilities and reveals health and healthcare disparities, such as rationing of medi...

Could the COVID-19 Crisis Help Eradicate Chronic Homelessness?

This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic can help end chronic homelessness in the United States by promoting a “Housing First” approach, whic...

The Societal Value of Vaccination in the Age of COVID-19

This article discusses how standard economic evaluations of vaccines only consider limited, direct health and cost benefits and proposes adopting a broader soci...

Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students With Disabilities

This analytic essay discusses difficulties faced by students with disabilities in the higher education system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students with disabi...

Changes to Telehealth Policy, Delivery, and Outcomes in Response to COVID-19

This report provides an overview of telehealth in the context of COVID-19, and how it is and can continue to adapt to meet the changing needs for healthcare. It...

Healthcare Workers: Information on COVID-19

This webpage provides a collection of COVID-19 resources on a variety of topics for healthcare workers, including patient care, vaccine clinical resources, infe...

Women Bearing Hardships During Pandemic: COVID-19 Disrupts Care, Mental Health, Economic Security

This story reveals the negative effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women’s mental health, reproductive care, and financial well-being.

National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic-Preparedness

This document presents a national strategy for the federal government, as well as state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, health care providers, busi...

COVID-19 Exposes the Cracks in Our Already Fragile Mental Health System

This article discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who are in need of or currently receiving mental health care. It also looks at what social...

COVID-19 Reveals Emerging Opportunities for Rural Public Health

This article discusses challenges that rural communities and local health departments face and offer opportunities to provide robust public health services for ...

Preparing the Public Health Workforce for the Post-COVID-19 Era

This article explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the future of the public health field, and discusses the need to prepare the increasingly div...

Priorities for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment and Prevention During COVID-19’s Second Wave

This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the prevalence and severity of alcohol use disorder. It also provides recommendations ...

Social Justice Is Not the COVID-19 Vaccine Alone: It Is Addressing Structural Racism Through Social Policies That Shape Health

This article focuses on structural racism and discrimination and how it contributes to worse health outcomes, increased risk of mortality, and vulnerability to ...

Farmworkers and COVID-19: Community-Based Partnerships to Address Health and Safety

This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected farmworkers in the U.S. with regard to occupational risk, financial insecurity, workplace safety, a...

Post-COVID-19 Health Care System: A Call for Community-Based, Person-Centered, and Primary Care-Driven Care

This editorial describes the need for community-based, person-centered, primary care-driven healthcare in the U.S. It discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has ag...

Building Trust in and Access to a COVID-19 Vaccine Within Communities of Color and Tribal Nations: A Framework for Action Convening

This policy brief focuses on how historic maltreatment of communities of color and tribal nations, along with current day structural racism, have created distru...

Advancing CHW Engagement in COVID-19 Response Strategies: A Playbook for Local Health Department Strategies in the United States

This playbook from the Community-Based Workforce Alliance was developed to facilitate the conceptualization and operationalization of community health worker en...