Letter to the Editor: Examples
This resource provides examples of letters to the editor that emphasize the importance of prevention in healthcare and community health initiatives.
Letter to the Editor Template
This resource is a template for writing letters to the editor. It guides users on how to structure their letters to communicate their position on an issue effec...
How to Write an Op-ed or Letter to the Edit
This resource guides writing effective op-eds and letters to the editor to raise awareness and influence policymakers on public health issues. It offers tips on...
Tips For writing effective letters to the editor
This resource provides guidance on writing effective letters to the editor to advocate for public health issues, focusing on how to craft concise, timely, and c...
Write a Letter to the Editor
This resource provides tips on writing and submitting a brief letter to the editor to advocate for public health issues, raise awareness, and potentially influe...
Coming to D.C.?
This resource guides public health advocates in planning visits to Washington, D.C., or engaging with Congress, offering tools, meeting tips, and resources for ...
What Happens When Your Policy Goes to Court?
This resource explores legal challenges to public health policies and offers strategies for prevention and defense. It aims to help public health professionals ...
Taking Action to Protect Public Health Authority: Learning Series
This new three-chapter learning series provides an overview of the public health authority, describing current threats to and ways to advocate for the public he...
Public Health Under Siege
This resource addresses the challenges facing public health, such as defunding and anti-science sentiment, and advocates for bold, policy-driven actions startin...
Indiana’s Public Health Investment Holds Insights For Other States
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...
When Money is Not Enough: Reimagining Public Health Requires Systematic Solutions to Hiring Barriers
This resource discusses the challenges faced by public health departments in the US in recruiting new employees, particularly focusing on barriers within civil ...
Minnesota Public Health Corps: A New Model For Building the Governmental Public Health Workforce
This resource examines the impact of Public Health AmeriCorps, particularly the Minnesota Public Health Corps, in addressing workforce shortages and building ca...
Community Power–Building Groups and Public Health NGOs: Reimagining Public Health Advocacy
This resource explores the potential of partnerships between public health organizations and community power-building organizations to address health disparitie...
Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During COVID-19: Implications For Public Health Policy Making
This resource examines how US courts have increasingly constrained public health legal powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly regarding mitigation or...
Human Impact Partners: 2023 Year in Review
This resource highlights efforts to strengthen relationships, combat structural racism, and promote equity and healing within the public health movement. It emp...
Public Health Awakened
This resource is about organizing public health workers to advocate for health, equity, and justice using their collective voice, evidence, expertise, and resou...
Developing a Comprehensive Curriculum for Public Health Advocacy
This resource outlines a proposal for a 100-hour interactive online curriculum to address the gap in advocacy education within public health school curricula. I...
DMI Stories From the Field
This resource discusses an initiative focused on showcasing innovations and successes in public health data collection and utilization across different states a...
Public Health Spotlight: A Day in the Life
This video showcases diverse career opportunities in public health, including the private sector, government, climate justice, and oral health roles. It aims to...
Building Trust in Public Health Communications
This resource focuses on building trust in public health communications by refining processes, seeking community input, and tailoring outreach efforts. It empha...
Fostering Community Partnerships for a Healthier World: A Call to Action and Framework
This resource emphasizes the significance of reshaping the function of academic public health to tackle social determinants of health, enhance evidence-based pr...
Building Inclusive Excellence Through an Anti-Racism Lens: Transformative Action in Academic Public Health
This resource emphasizes the urgent need for transformative action to address racism, promote inclusivity, and advance health equity within academic public heal...
Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning Report
This resource calls for a comprehensive rethinking of how public health education is delivered, advocating for a shift towards more inclusive, equitable, innova...
Framing the Future 2030: Executive Summary
This resource aims to reshape how public health is taught and practiced, making it more effective, inclusive, and responsive to contemporary challenges.
New Approaches to Investing in the Next Generation of Public Health Leaders
This video discusses how historic investments during the pandemic have allowed for expanding and diversifying the public health workforce. It features insights ...
Public Health Priorities for the 2024 State Legislative Sessions
This resource discusses top public health priorities and legislative trends anticipated to impact public health in state legislative sessions.
Big Interview for Public Health AmeriCorps
This resource allows free access to the Big Interview online platform for Public Health AmeriCorps members, aiming to enhance their job interview skills and ref...
Overview of Public Health Primer
This resource discusses the collaboration between public health and community development sectors to address health and racial equity through upstream partnersh...
Individual Rights and the Public’s Health: Constitutional, Ethical, and Political Aspects of COVID-19 Measures and Their Enforcement
This resource addresses the balance between public health measures and individual rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the constitutional and ethica...
171: Public Health Education Specialist, Empowering Health Equity With Araba Assan, MPH, CHES
This podcast episode highlights developing and honing the host’s skills as a health educator and what the Certified Health Education Specialist has done f...
172: Intentionally Connecting Health Care Leaders with Lydie Marc, MPH, CHES
This podcast episode highlights choosing to pursue an MPH over an MHA, Mentorship vs Sponsorship and their importance, why you need to be directionally correct ...
175: Building Your Personal & Professional Brand While Navigating Public Health With Mickal Lewis, MPH, CHW
This podcast episode highlights the importance of realizing your worth and what you want from a job and shifting to get what you need – whether that’s a hig...
The Public Health Millennial: Public Health Careers Podcast
This podcast discusses diverse public health career paths to enhance understanding, skills, and networks for a broad audience.
Making the Most of Your Public Health AmeriCorps Experience: Poster Sessions 103
In this webinar, conference attendees will continue to learn about poster design and creation. In this session, you will: Begin to craft your poster Incorporate...
Making the Most of Your Public Health AmeriCorps Experience: Poster Sessions 102
In this webinar, conference attendees can learn how to design and create posters from our experts at APHA. We will give practical steps on your poster curation ...
The Moderna Vaccine Is Part of Dolly Parton’s Long Legacy of Health Philanthropy
This article portrays Dolly Parton as an iconic entertainer and a significant figure in health advocacy and philanthropy, particularly in rural and underserved ...
Shot in the Arm
Shot in the Arm explores vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of our modern pandemic.
America Dissected
On America Dissected, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed explores what’s making us sick and what we’ll need to take on — be it racism, corporate capitalism, or snake oil ...
Early-Career Professionals
This webpage emphasizes the benefits of becoming a member of APHA as an early career professional, providing access to a supportive community, professional deve...
APHA LEAD
This resource is an online community platform that brings together public health professionals and enthusiasts. It offers a space for collaboration, networking,...
Public Health CareerMart
This resource is a job site for public health professionals, offering a career guidance center for employers and job seekers.
Laws Addressing Public Health Authority to Respond to Emergencies
This resource is a longitudinal dataset that captures laws addressing authority to respond to public health emergencies enacted between May 21, 2022, and April ...
2023 NACCHO360 Conference July 10 – 13, 2023
This resource is the homepage of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Conference. The 2023 NACCHO360 Annual Conference e...
State Legislation Addressing Public Health Emergency Authority
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...
The Public Health Communications Collaborative: Webinars
This series of webinars provides communications training for the public health field. Speakers include state, local, and federal government officials, public he...
Preemption of Public Health Authority: Communication Toolkit for Organizers
This messaging guide outlines preemption of public health authority, defining preemption, identifying relevant legislation, and sharing messaging guides for off...
Help Ensure That Public Health Professionals Can Continue to Protect Community Well-Being
This resource provides a community-level overview of legislative limits to public health authority. ChangeLab Solutions introduces concepts of public health pro...
The Principles of Trustworthiness
The Trustworthiness Toolkit, created by the Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Health Justice, is a resource designed to help all organizations bu...
The Exodus of State and Local Public Health Employees: Separations Started Before and Continued Throughout COVID-19
This study used data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey in 2017 and 2021 to analyze the size and composition of the state and local pub...
Racial Justice Competency Model
This website outlines Racial Justice Competencies for Public Health Professionals developed by the Public Health Training Centers, in partnership with the Natio...
We Can Do This
This resource provides information and resources to encourage people to take actions that can help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The initiative emphasizes the...
Prevention Science and Health Equity: A Comprehensive Framework for Preventing Health Inequities and Disparities Associated with Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class
This journal article presents a framework for addressing health outcome disparities that attribute them, not simply to differences in the behavioral and physica...
Communications Tool: Plain Language for Public Health
This guide was created to support public health communicators in creating messaging to advance health literacy, build trust in your organization as a source of ...
Sustainability of Public Health Interventions: Where Are the Gaps?
This commentary explores the challenges around the sustainability of public health interventions, with particular attention to definitions and frameworks like t...
The Future of Public Health: Three Things to Watch for in 2023
This resource offers insight into what may impact local policymakers and public health officials’ ability to strengthen their response to curren...
Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice Meeting
During this meeting, The Council on Linkages heard from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and three other Council on Linkages membe...
America Must Rebuild Its Public Health Workforce Before the Next Pandemic
This opinion piece discusses what Congress can do to ensure the U.S. healthcare system is equipped to prevent the next major pandemic.
Centering Racial Justice in the Public Health Ecosystem: Lessons From COVID-19
This brief describes the actions and commitments of an ecosystem approach to public health. Distinctions between this ecosystem approach and the current focus o...
Legislators Introduced More Than 1,500 Bills To Change the Authority of State and Local Health Agencies and Executive Officers During 2021 and 2022 Legislative Sessions
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
Act for Public Health provides direct support to public health departments and others through consultation, training, legal technical assistance, research, and ...
Building the CDC the Country Needs
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...
Will America’s Public Health Reckoning Ever Come?
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...
Public Health Agencies Try To Restore Trust As They Fight Misinformation
In this story, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the Oklahoma City County Health Department, acknowledges that the misinformation and distrust surrounding covid-19 v...
Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey 2021 Supplement 1
This edition of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice includes several articles discussing the needs and interests of the public health workforce...
Principles for Using Public Health Data To Drive Equity
This report outlines data equity principles that provide a framework for a shift in thinking about how equity-mindedness throughout the entire data life cycle c...
How To Counter Preemption Laws That Can Undermine Health Equity
This blog post discusses how local communities are shaping solutions to counter preemption laws and give everyone a fair and just opportunity for health.
Public Health Forward: Implementation Guidance From State and Local Health Departments
This set of ten interactive case studies aims to bring recommendations from Public Health Forward: Modernizing the U.S. Public Health System to implementat...
Centering Equity in the Nation’s Public Health System
This brief offers five considerations to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its state and local partners as they seek to bring equity to...
PH WINS 2021 National Dashboards
PH WINS is the first and only nationally representative source of data on the people that make up the governmental public health workforce. It captures their pe...
The Public Health Workforce in the COVID-19 Era: Younger, More Diverse, With High Levels of Stress and Intent To Leave
This report documents the key findings of the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS). The survey provides data on workforce demograph...
Public Health 101 Series
The Public Health 101 Series provides an introduction to public health and covers the sciences essential to public health practice. The fundamental scientific c...
Project REFOCUS
This website summarizes Project REFOCUS, a project that provides a real-time crisis monitoring system and educational resources for public health practitioners....
Public Health Careers
PublicHealthCareers.org promotes careers and jobs in U.S. state and territorial governmental public health agencies. Users can search for public health job oppo...
Public Health Learning Navigator
The Public Health Learning Network is an active consortium of public health educators, practitioners, and thought leaders that aims to advance public health pra...
Racism Is a Public Health Crisis – Map of Declarations
This map shows where racism has been declared a public health crisis or emergency in the United States. Users can explore the data by declaring entity type...
Creating an Age-Friendly Public Health System: Challenges, Opportunities, and Next Steps
This report outlines the functions that public health could fulfill, in collaboration with aging services, to address the challenges and opportunities of an agi...
Championing Public Health Amid Legal and Legislative Threats: Framing and Language Recommendations
This report explores the ways that public health authority is being eroded and suggests ways to hold lawmakers accountable, illustrate to community members...
CDC Moving Forward Summary Report
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...
Communications Tool: Building Bridges
This resource for public health communicators explains how to use bridging statements effectively to build trust, acknowledge and answer tough questions, a...
Answers to Tough Questions About Public Health
This webpage provides talking points and answers to tough questions related to COVID-19. Topics covered include children and COVID-19, mask guidance, vaccines, ...
Fighting for Public Health: Findings, Opportunities, and Next Steps from a Feasibility Study to Strengthen Public Health Advocacy
This report summarizes a feasibility study conducted with public health advocates and leaders from 45 organizations. The purpose of this report is to stimulate ...
National Summit Series: Summit 2 Creating an Interoperable and Modern Data and Technology Infrastructure
The second in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together more than 1,500 public health ...
Summit 3 Accelerating Action Report: Strengthening Public Health Law, Governance and Finance to Support a Modern System
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 ...
Summit 1 Accelerating Action Report: Achieving a Diverse and Effective Public Health Workforce
The first in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together more than 1,200 participants th...
Staffing Up: Workforce Levels Needed to Provide Basic Public Health Services
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...
Data Modernization Initiative Strategic Implementation Plan
This document describes a multi-year, billion-plus dollar effort to modernize core data and surveillance infrastructure across the federal and state public...
Public Health 3.0 After COVID-19—Reboot or Upgrade?
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...
The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2022
This report tracks federal, state, and local investment in public health and how underinvestment in public health programs impacted the COVID-19 response, exace...
How Investing in Public Health Will Strengthen America’s Health
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...
Urban Health Agenda
This report aims to provide a framework focusing on protecting and promoting the well-being of the nation’s big cities by building healthier, more equitab...
Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge
This report outlines recommendations for building a national public health system that addresses ongoing and future health crises, advances equity, and earns tr...
Raising the Bar
This webpage provides an actionable framework that aims to embed equity and excellence throughout the work of the entire healthcare sector and help achieve opti...
Toxic Stress, Behavioral Health, and the Next Major Era in Public Health
This resource explains why behavioral health is the most critical element for the next era in public health. This perspective is based on an increasing understa...
Accessibility of COVID-19 Information-Sharing and Public Communications for People with Disabilities
This case study states people with disabilities must have equal access to COVID-19 information as those without disabilities. State and local jurisdictions and ...
Building a Movement, Transforming Institutions: A Guide for Public Health Professionals
This webpage acts as a guide and tool for public health leaders to advance health equity. It provides an overview of equity in public health practice and provid...
Get Ready: Set Your Clocks and Check Your Stocks
This webpage is part of the American Public Health Association’s campaign to remind people to periodically check their emergency supplies. It contains an ...
Get Ready: Fact Sheets
This webpage provides a collection of fact sheets to help improve preparedness for a variety of public health hazards. It includes information on how to respond...
Get Ready
This website is part of the American Public Health Association’s initiative to help people prepare against disasters and hazards. It contains a compilatio...
Communicating Through COVID-19 and Beyond: Impact and Insights from the Field of Public Health
This report shares stories, reflections, and insights from the Public Health Communication Collaborative’s national survey on public health during the COV...
The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-being of the Nation
This series of webinars designed for public health practitioners discusses racism and its impact on health and well-being.
Supporting Mental and Behavioral Health: A New Public Health Crisis
This resource is a legislative prospectus around mental health and addictions.
State Policy Can Reduce Systemic Racism in Public Health
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...
Resource Library for Advancing Health Equity in Public Health
This webpage provides tools and template for public health departments in taking action to advance health equity.
Public Health’s Unique Role in Addressing Both Social Needs and Social Determinants
This brief explores how the public health sector is uniquely positioned to assist at the intersection of public health, social needs, and social determinants of...
Public Health Reaching Across Sectors
This website provides evidence-based resources designed to support public health practitioners with communication skills and strategies to help build capacity t...
Health at Key Stages of Life – The Life-Course Approach to Public Health
This resource provides a description of key population health issues along the life course.
Connecting Public Dialogue to Action and Change
This toolkit is intended to help people go from community dialogue to mobilizing community change.
Community Health and Economic Prosperity
This resource is intended to foster public health and business collaboration. It provides resources that make the business case for health equity and racial jus...
Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series and Discussion Guide
This series of webinars and discussion guides for public health and community practitioners is intended to facilitate conversations about racism and racial heal...
A Practitioner’s Guide to Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
This guide aims to assist public health practitioners in addressing disparities in chronic disease health outcomes. It includes lessons learned from practitione...
Preemption and Policymaking in Public Health Law: From Local to Global
This webinar introduces the roles of various levels of government in public health policymaking and the ways that preemption is interfering with local democrati...
Wastewater Monitoring: How to Strengthen and Sustain an Important Public Health Tool
This opinion piece discusses the results of a survey on the effectiveness of wastewater surveillance. It includes recommendations to strengthen and sustain wast...
Seven Trends Will Shape the Future Public Health Workforce
This blog summarizes trends most likely to impact the future public health workforce and how public health leaders can best prepare for them. Some of the trends...
Building Systems Change for Equitable Public Health Systems
This blog explains the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) framework, an action-oriented framework that emphasizes addressing r...
Politics and Pandemic Fatigue Doom California’s Covid Vaccine Mandates
This story outlines the general failure of vaccine mandates in California, particularly in those that focus on children. The need for education, public informat...
Public Health’s Use of Digital Tools During COVID-19
This report describes decision-making amongst health agency leaders and their informatics staff as they selected and implemented digital resources to support CO...
Diversity in Public Health Leadership Has Never Been More Important
This blog interviews current cohorts of the Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH) program about their experience and the benefits of joining....
Isolation, Quarantine, and Public Health Authority Beyond the Pandemic
This blog post introduces the use of isolation and quarantine powers to protect public health throughout history.
50 State Survey: Summary of Enacted Laws and Pending Bills Limiting Public Health Authority: The Second Wave
This resource details COVID-19-related laws and pending legislation, and broader enacted and proposed limitations on public health authority in all 50 states an...
Communicating Public Health Guidance to Cases and Contacts: Recommendations for COVID-19 Case Investigators and Contact Tracers
This brief recommends techniques for case investigators and contact tracers to communicate with contacts effectively.
Epidemics That Didn’t Happen
This report examines epidemics that were prevented by early planning and intervention, including Yellow Fever, Ebola, Anthrax, and Monkeypox. It discusses why C...
Expanding Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Guidebook
This guidebook helps leaders to expand equity in the workplace by defining racial equity, including examples, providing talking points, and suggesting actions t...
Summit Emphasizes Need for Vision That Improves Health for All Through Governance, Law and Finance
This summit discusses future challenges in public health, specifically how law, governance, and finance are all intertwined and essential for strong public heal...
Awash with Potential: Using Wastewater Surveillance to Shore Up Public Health
This story highlights the importance of wastewater surveillance in public health infrastructure, citing its use nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic and disc...
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...
Why is Racism a Public Health Issue? Episode 7 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores at how racism negatively affects health and looks at the role of publ...
What is Health Equity? Episode 2 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explains the concept and importance of health equity.
Why is Mental Health a Public Health Issue? Episode 3 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and looks at how mental illnesses can affect not just mental health, but also phys...
Why is Climate Change a Public Health Issue? Episode 4 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explains the impacts of climate change on health and well-being.
How Does Public Health Tackle Gun Violence? Episode 5 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and focuses on the issue of gun violence. It shares insights from public health ex...
How Can We Prepare for the Next Pandemic? Episode 6 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and discusses the role of public health in preparing for and addressing the next p...
What is Public Health? Episode 1 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and introduces the basics of public health and why it is important.
What Does Access to Care Really Mean? Episode 8 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series “That’s Public Health,” and explains what access to health care is and why it is important.
What Does “Health in All Policies” Mean? Episode 9 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and discusses the concept of incorporating health in all policies–making dec...
How Does Environment Affect Our Health? Episode 10 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores how environmental health affects health and well-being. It looks at t...
How do Social Determinants Impact Public Health? Episode 11 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explains how social determinants of health affect health and well-being.
Why Are STIs Still a Public Health Issue? Episode 12 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and focuses on the issue of sexually-transmitted infections. With medical and tech...
How Can Public Health Help Prevent Cancer? Episode 13 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores the role of public health in cancer prevention, through early interve...
How Does Public Health Tackle Alcohol and Drug Misuse? Episode 14 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores how public health addresses the growing issues of alcohol and drug mi...
Why Are Everyday Injuries a Public Health Issue? Episode 15 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and focuses on accidental injuries and deaths, and looks at the role of public hea...
How Are Public Health and Chronic Diseases Connected? Episode 16 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and looks at how public health can remove barriers to well-being in order to suppo...
Why Should You Care about Global Health? Episode 17 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores public health on the global scale. It highlights efforts on eradicating...
Healthy Births & Black Americans: Why are Death Rates Still Higher? Episode 18 of #ThatsPublicHealth
This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and discusses at the causes for why Black Americans are 243% more likely to die from...
Why is Heart Disease the Leading Cause of U.S. Deaths? Episode 19 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and examines why heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States an...
Who Makes Up Public Health? Episode 20 of “That’s Public Health”
This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and looks at how public health workers fulfill different roles throughout socie...
That’s Public Health
This video series by APHA and Complexly Media examines the basics of important public health topics, including how chronic diseases, heart disease, racism, and ...
Pathways to Population Health Equity
Pathways to Population Health Equity (P2PHE) is a framework and set of tools designed to support public health leaders to strategically advance population healt...
Rising Stress and Burnout in Public Health: Results of a National Survey of the Public Health Workforce
Using findings from the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), this brief describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ...
Keeping our Communities Safe and Thriving: The Role of Public Health
Hosted by APHA, the Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response, and the COVID Collaborative, this conversation features a panel of experts on the value o...
A Population Health Workforce To Meet 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop
This webinar explores issues related to the multi-sector workforce for population health improvement, including strengthening and supporting the workforce, addr...
Building Community-Based Contact Tracing
This interactive dashboard presents key demographic characteristics of trainees who received training through the TRAIN Learning Network as well as the communit...
Sara Alert
This tool automates the process of public health monitoring and reporting of individuals exposed to or infected with COVID-19 or any infectious disease. It was ...
COVID-19 Reveals an Urgent Need To Reimagine What a System of Health Should Be
This article reveals the importance of having a robust public health infrastructure and discusses the shortfalls that the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed. It als...
Emerging Leaders in Public Health respond to COVID-19 in local communities
This article features various emerging leaders in public health. It shares how these leadership teams are making a difference in their communities and helping a...
COVID-19 Pandemic Proved that Underinvesting in Public Health Puts Lives and Livelihoods at Risk
This article highlights key findings and implications of Trust for America’s Health’s report on how chronic underfunding of public health systems ex...
Strengthening Health Systems and Preventing Pandemics
This webpage focuses on the efforts by the Skoll Foundation to strengthen health systems and prevent pandemics. It highlights examples of partnerships between t...
The Uninsurance Rate Held Steady During the Pandemic as Public Coverage Increased
This issue brief focuses on the uninsurance rate during the COVID-19 pandemic and looks at how public insurance plans have helped offset losses in employer-spon...
Accredited Health Departments in the News in the Time of COVID-19
This webpage highlights stories about health departments around the United States that have been showing leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Prevention, Safety and Treatment
This webpage provides a list of steps that can be taken to help control the spread of COVID-19; it includes personal, community, and organizational prevention s...
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...
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Diabetes and Insulin
This blog post shares how people with diabetes have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused widespread unemployment and loss of employer-sponso...
Breastfeeding and COVID-19 Vaccines
This blog post features Dr. Ruth Karron and Dr. Ruth Faden, who answer questions and concerns about vaccine safety while breastfeeding and the benefits that bre...
Rethinking Herd Immunity and the COVID-19 Response End Game
This blog post features epidemiologists Gypsyamber D’Souza and David Dowdy, who answer questions about herd immunity and how it may still be possible for ...
The Lancet: Latest Global Disease Estimates Reveal Perfect Storm of Rising Chronic Diseases and Public Health Failures Fuelling COVID-19 Pandemic
This article provides key points and explains the implications of the Global Burden of Disease Study published by The Lancet, which revealed how unprepared coun...
Google COVID-19 Search Trends Symptoms Dataset: Anonymization Process Description
This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of Google’s COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset, a publ...
COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance Among Adults in Four Major US Metropolitan Areas and Nationwide
This article presents the findings of a study on COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among those who are already vaccinated, unvaccinated by willingness to accept a...
Responding to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
This webpage presents how the Association of Public Health Laboratories is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
#WhyPublicHealthMatters News and Resources
This collection of blog posts, news, and resources provide information on how public health professionals are combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Get Your COVID-19 Vaccine
This webpage contains a series of videos from OU Health and surrounding community members promoting COVID-19 vaccinations.
New Report Presents Five-Year Roadmap for U.S. Public Health
This blog post introduces and presents the key points of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s report on the critical investments needed to modernize America’s...
Contagious Conversations
This podcast series features interviews with experts on current health topics and concerns.
Public Health Officials Under Siege
This podcast shares public health officials experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they have been targeted by protestors and laws to limit their power...
Unsplash – CDC Public Health Image Library
This webpage contains a searchable compilation of free imagery from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Image Library.
Health Equity Learning Bundle
This series of courses from the Public Health Foundation provides frontline professionals with knowledge to better understand health equity and approaches that ...
New: Issue-Specific Preemption Guide
This webpage presents a collection of preemption resources on various issues, including sanctuary cities, equitable housing, minimum wage, and more. It is inten...
Preemption: Connecting Preemption, Public Health and Equity
This webpage highlights resources from ChangeLab Solutions to help inform public officials and community leaders about how preemption can affect their efforts t...
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.
HHS Image Galleries
This webpage presents a collection of links to image galleries of various Health and Human Services agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
Videos & Images in Public Health: Find Videos & Images
This webpage contains an extensive list of galleries, databases and collections of public health images, videos, infographics, and more. While it is aimed at UC...
Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders
This webpage provides an overview of a longitudinal dataset on the laws that limit the authority of officials and entities for public health emergency orders. U...
Legal Interventions to Counter COVID-19 Denialism
This journal article focuses on how public and private actors are fighting back again anti-public health state laws via legal interventions, such as constitutio...
Transforming Public Health Data Systems
This webpage provides resources and recommendations on how to build a robust public health data system to advance health equity. It includes a health data infra...
Why Business and Public Health?
This webpage looks at the importance of and opportunities for engagement from the private sector in promoting health and wellbeing. It highlights the report, &#...
COVID-19 Responses and 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. ...
Lessons from COVID-19 on Executing Communications and Engagement at the Community Level During a Health Crisis Perspectives
This paper shares highlights from the National Academies’ COVID-19 convening. It summarizes key themes, lessons on communications and community engagement...
Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
This searchable image library compiles photos and illustrations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is intended to support public health mes...
COVID-19 Response and Resources
This webpage contains resources and tools curated by the Build Healthy Places Network on navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic. It emphasizes cross-sector co...
ASTHO Unveils Top 10 Public Health State Policy Issues to Watch in 2022
This post provides an overview of the ten state public health policies that the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) identified as the ...
AMA urges states to use science, data as they reopen economy
This statement made early on in the COVID-19 pandemic calls for the use of science, evidence, and data in the making of public health decisions.
Governmental Public Health Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stay-at-Home Orders, Business Closures, and Travel Restrictions
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...
COVID-19 Community Health Tools
This webpage provides resources, FAQs and infographics for Tribal public health departments and workers, community organizations, and Tribal community members o...
Protecting Community Health Workers Through COVID-19 and Beyond
This story provides insights into the experiences of community health workers in low-and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically thos...
COVID-19 Response: Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response With Community Health Workers
This fact sheet provides information regarding how to amplify the work of community health workers in the response to COVID-19.
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.
Community Health Workers Strengthen COVID-19 Response
This fact sheet outlines the ways in which community health workers play a part in the capacity of the public health system, specifically during the COVID-19 pa...
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 ...
Protecting the Community Health Workforce during COVID-19: Getting PPE To The Last Mile
This webpage outlines the COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa (CAF-Africa), a collaboration of 30+ organizations for the purpose of supplying community health worke...
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...
Now is the Time: Acting Today Will Ensure We Have A Strong Health Workforce Tomorrow
This piece outlines a national strategy to address health workforce needs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Consequences of Preemption for Public Health & Equity
This fact sheet covers the implications of preemption for important public health priorities in areas such as affordable and fair housing; food and beverages; t...
Preemption, Public Health, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19
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...
Health Equity Tracker To Study Racial Health Inequities
This blog post introduces the Satcher Health Leadership Institute’s Health Equity Tracker, a data platform that tracks systemic health inequities.
COVID-19 Tracking Survey
This webpage provides access to a survey, created and circulated by the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and Emerson College, assessing N...
Collaborating for Vaccinations in Latinx Communities
This webpage provides information about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the Latinx community in California, social determinants of health influencing th...
Emerging Leaders in Public Health Respond to COVID-19 in Local Communities
This article provides information on the importance of emerging public health leaders in the local response to COVID-19. Examples of these leaders are also high...
Resilient American Communities Methods
This website provides methods that increase a community’s capacity to solve problems collaboratively and raise the voices of underserved communities so t...
Vaccinating Black Californians Through Faith Communities
This article discusses the efforts that Together Toward Health grantees initiated to engage the Black community in COVID-19 vaccination, prioritizing the use of...
With All Eyes on COVID Vaccination Rates, Funders Nationwide Battle Hesitancy and Inequity
In Inside Philanthropy, PHI president and CEO Mary Pittman describes working with California philanthropies to form Together Toward Health, to support COVID-19 ...
Responding to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic
This webpage outlines the Association for Public Health Laboratories’ COVID-19 response activities. It links critical resources, including COVID-19 labora...
Clear communication key to fostering trust in COVID-19 guidance
This Q&A discusses how to successfully present information to the public about COVID-19.
Links to Additional Public Health Authority Resources
This resource list gathers factual and legal analysis to assist public health officials, advocates, and policymakers in responding to the complex issues involve...
COVID-19 Policy Playbook II: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future
The COVID-19 Policy Playbook II offers an assessment of the U.S. policy response to the COVID-19 crisis, legal recommendations for a safer, more equitable futur...
Courts Considering Challenges to States Blocking School Mask Requirements
This blog post summarizes legal challenges to state laws and executive orders that limit or prohibit issuing universal face mask protocols for schools based on ...
Public Health Law After COVID-19
This resource discusses the surge in litigation related to COVID-19 and the varying outcomes of legal challenges to mitigation measures. It mentions courts̵...
We Stand With Public Health: A Call to Action
This website page outlines steps for stopping workforce violence in public health, and provides resources and factsheets.
COVID-19 — The Law and Limits of Quarantine
This journal article discusses quarantines and travel bans implemented during COVID-19 in the United States.
Legal Protections for Public Health Officials
This report summarizes survey findings of legal protections for public health workers, including criminal statutes punishing individuals who impede public healt...
Variation Among Public Health Interventions in Initial Efforts to Prevent and Control the Spread of COVID-19 in the 50 States, 29 Big Cities, and the District of Columbia
This article discusses variations among states and cities in implementing 3 NPIs: stay-at- home/shelter-in-place orders, gathering restrictions, and mask mandat...
State Public Health Authorities Face COVID-19 Legal Challenges
This blog discusses legal challenges to stay-at-home orders, business and school closures, public gathering limits, face covering requirements, and public healt...
State Action on Coronavirus
This database provides up-to-date, real-time information about bills related to and responding to COVID-19 that have been introduced in the 50 states and the Di...
Advancing Children’s Health: Promoting COVID-19 Vaccination and Mitigation Measures
This resource provides detailed recommendations for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5-11 years old.
PHERN Helps Changemakers End the Pandemic, Advance Equity, Build a Public Health System for the Future
The Growing Gap: Gender Pay Equity, Meaningful Work, and Wealth during COVID-19
Meaningful Work & Wealth as a Vital Condition Meaningful work and wealth is one of the Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being—things we all need to thrive....
Preemption and Public Health
This infographic outlines why preemption matters for public health. It provides the definition of preemption, as well as its implications for community-driven p...
Surveillance and the “New Normal” of COVID-19: Public Health, Data, and Justice
This report provides information on the surveillance of COVID-19 and the ethical and legal considerations necessary for its effective implementation. Details ar...
COVID-19 Diagnostic Laboratory Testing (PCR Testing) Time Series
This time series dataset includes viral COVID-19 laboratory test [Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)] results from over 1,000 U.S. laboratories and testing locatio...
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center
This webpage provides a deep well of information for public health experts, business preparedness leaders, government officials, and the public on COVID-19.
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...
Surveillance and Data Analytics
This webpage provides information and resources to help public health departments and laboratories investigate and report COVID-19 cases.
Achieving Vaccine Equity: Resources and Best Practices To Bringing Down Barriers
This webpage includes tools, resources, and best practices for addressing barriers to vaccine access. Methods for reaching underserved communities and addressin...
Preemption
This webpage provides an overview of preemption and highlights key resources connecting preemption, public health and equity.
Inside America’S COVID-Reporting Breakdown
This written story provides information on how state officials identified hotspots to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.
Carrying Equity In COVID-19 Vaccination Forward: Guidance Informed By Communities Of Color
This website details how state and local officials can better serve groups with persistently low vaccine coverage� particularly low-income persons and communi...
Bonus Training: Preemption
This presentation explores the connections between preemption, public health, and equity. It also contains information regarding how preemption can hinder or ad...
A National COVID-19 Surveillance System: Achieving Containment
This report provides an overview of the methods and strategy used to develop a COVID-19 surveillance system. The document provides public health expertise helpi...
Policy Playbook For COVID-19 and Beyond
This report assesses the United States’ policy response to the COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of health equity along racial and economic lines. It c...
Responding To The Pandemic: Challenges With Public Health Surveillance Systems and Development Of A COVID-19 National Surveillance Case Definition To Support Case-Based Morbidity Surveillance During The Early Response
This journal provides information on COVID-19 and the virus causing the illness, SARS-CoV-2. Historical information is also provided on the development of a cas...
Reflecting On Management Lessons In Public Health Data Infrastructure During COVID-19
This report from the Partnership for Public Service provides information on emergency preparedness and response in the public services. Recommendations are prov...
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Health Surveillance and Survey Data Collections in the United States
This resource addresses the need for enhanced surveillance data during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of establishing a unified national surveillance ...
Uses of Electronic Health Records for Public Health Surveillance to Advance Public Health
This journal article provides technical information pertaining to the use of electronic health records in public health surveillance. It provides additional con...
A COVID-19-Ready Public Health Surveillance System: The Food and Drug Administration’s Sentinel System
This journal article provides a description of the Food and Drug Administration’s sentinel surveillance system and its use in tracking and monitoring the ...
Accurate Statistics On COVID-19 Are Essential For Policy Guidance and Decision
This journal article provides background information and advocates for the use of data on COVID-19 to draft appropriate policy serving mitigation efforts. Techn...
Considerations for Improving Reporting and Analysis of Date-Based COVID-19 Surveillance Data by Public Health Agencies
This journal article advocates for an increase in the scale of COVID-19 surveillance data collected. It supports developing nationalized standards for disease r...
COVID-19 Surveillance For Local Decision Making: An Academic, School District, and Public Health Collaboration
This journal article advocates for an increase in scale of COVID-19 surveillance. Data collected and analyzed will help support decision making for community he...
Post-COVID Public Health Surveillance and Privacy Expectations in the United States: Scenario-Based Interview Study
This journal article provides information on a study evaluating how concerns relating to health data privacy affect the surveillance of COVID-19. This study is ...
COVID-19 Surveillance: Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted, and Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts
This journal article examines the components of an ideal surveillance system and assesses the effectiveness of COVID-19 surveillance in North Carolina and aroun...
The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Closing Glaring Gaps In U.S. Surveillance Data On COVID-19
This article describes gaps in the data on COVID-19 that threaten our public health response, and calls for the rapid adoption of a uniform short digital form f...
Social Media– and Internet-Based Disease Surveillance For Public Health
This journal article addresses the use, promise, perils, and ethics of social media and Internet-based data collection for public health surveillance.
Dynamic Public Health Surveillance To Track and Mitigate The U.S. COVID-19 Epidemic: Longitudinal Trend Analysis Study
The purpose of this study was to develop dynamic metrics for public health surveillance that can inform worldwide COVID-19 prevention efforts.
Disease Surveillance for the COVID-19 Era: Time For Bold Changes
The resource discusses the weaknesses in disease surveillance revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It mentions issues such as inadequate diagnostic capacity, insu...
An Equity-First Approach To Assessing Preemption
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...
Spatio-Temporal Small Area Surveillance Of The COVID-19 Pandemics
This article proposes a new spatio-temporal spline model suited for COVID-19 surveillance that allows estimating and monitoring for small areas, as demonstrated...
Addressing Health Equity In The New Preemption Era
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...
Public Health Surveillance For COVID-19: Interim Guidance
This document summarizes current WHO guidance for public health surveillance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in humans caused by infection with severe ac...
Assessing and Addressing Preemption
This resource contains an overview of preemption, describes how it can affect health equity, and outlines generally how local authority is granted in different ...
A Compendium Of U.S. Wastewater Surveillance To Support COVID-19 Public Health Response
This report highlights how wastewater surveillance can be an important and effective tool for early detection of SARS-CoV-2 especially among disadvantaged or vu...
Legal Authority For Local Health Officers’ and Local Governments’ Responses To COVID-19 In California
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...
PIH’s Strategy for Achieving Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination
This toolkit a set of practical tools and guidelines developed with and for public health implementers around the country to promote equitable and effective vac...
TRAIN Learning Network
TRAIN is a learning platform that provides access to a national catalog of trainings developed by government agencies, universities, professional associations, ...
BEAM
This webpage provides information on BEAM, an online certificate program in the field of financial management. It offers key statistics to the field of financia...
K-12 Schools COVID-19 Mitigation Toolkit
This toolkit is designed for public health officials, K-12 administrators, school district officials, and occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals to ...
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. It calls on curren...
Seeing the Bigger Picture of Public Health Workforce Challenges
This article advocates for the strengthening of the public health workforce. It provides background and contextual information on the workforce itself, referenc...
Need to Know: Details on Biden’s New Public Health Workforce Plan
This article provides information on Biden’s public health workforce plan and the long term public health goals of the administration.
5 Skills Public Health Officials Need to Combat the Next Pandemic
This article highlights five leadership skills that public health managers require and recommend training programs to ensure they have them.
The Future of the Public Health Workforce After COVID-19
This podcast talks about what the pandemic has taught about urgently needed investments in public health workforce.
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 25:S1-S3, March/April 2019
This webpage provides links to editorials, commentaries, research reports, and practice commentaries that appeared in the March/April 2019 edition of the Journa...
QA: Why the United States Needs a New Public Health Workforce
This webpage advocates for a renewed approach to developing public health workforce in the US. Information is provided on an interview conducted by Partners in ...
Infographic: Creativity and Innovation in the Public Health Workforce
This infographic shows that creativity and innovation in public health can improve moral, retention, and productivity.
Factors Affecting the Public Health Workforce
This infographic suggests that composition of numbers of workers, competency of workers, contextual environment and work environment are the factors affecting t...
Explore Data from PH WINS 2017
This webpage provides information on the current state of the public health workforce in the US. The data presented is stratified to reflect geographic and demo...
Training and Education Resources for the Workforce
This webpage provides continuing education material, such as courses, reports, and pamphlets, aimed at developing and strengthening the public health workforce.
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...
Recruitment and Retention for Rural Health Facilities
This webpage provides information on the need for concerted recruitment and retention activities for public health workers in rural communities. Additional deta...
Public Health Workforce Development Strategies
This webpage describes public health workforce needs and steps required to prepare for the future.
Preventing and Mitigating COVID-19 at Work: Policy Brief
This resource is intended for public health and labor authorities, businesses, employers, workers, and their representatives at the national, local, and workpla...
Modernizing the Workforce for the Public’s Health: Shifting the Balance Public Health Workforce Summit Report
This report from the Public Health Workforce Summit advocates for and reinforces the need to develop the public health workforce in the United States. It provid...
Framework for Implementation of COVID-19 Community Mitigation Measures for Lower-Resource Countries
This website describes goals, guiding principles, and strategies for non-pharmaceutical community mitigation of COVID-19 transmission that can be adopted by a c...
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...
Core Competencies Tools
This webpage provides information on core competency tools needed by public health practitioners. It links to a tool allowing assessment and self-assessment of ...
Community Mitigation: For Public Health Professionals
This webpage provides information for public health professionals regarding the mitigation of COVID-19 at the community level. Guidance for case investigation, ...
10 Essential Public Health Services
This webpage provides information on a model of public health service provision which encompasses ten essential services. Links are provided to background and h...
Summit 1: Achieving a Diverse and Effective Public Health Workforce
This website provides new resources, strategies and recommendations for strengthening the public health workforce.
Explore the Latest in Public Health Workforce Development: The 2021 Public Health Learning Forum
This webpage provides information on the Public Health Learning Forum and its advocacy for the development of the public health workforce in the US. Information...
Community Health Workers Toolkit
This topic guide provides resources that identify different CHW models, demonstrate effective CHW programs, and outline the issues and challenges to the develop...
The Future of Public Health: A Synthesis Report for the Field
This report provides synthesized recommendations regarding the core components needed to build a modern and more effective U.S. public health system capable of ...
Recruitment and Retention: What’s Influencing the Decisions of Public Health Workers?
This webpage introduces a report on the decision-making process of public health workers. The page provides contextual overview, as well as links to the report ...
Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey 2017 National Findings
This report provides information on the state of the public health workforce in the United States. It also conveys information from a needs assessment conducted...
Public Health Forward: Modernizing the U.S. Public Health System
This report discusses a modernized public health system that provides a framework of practical, prioritized, and bipartisan actions for policymakers and public ...
Decline in Trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report examines changes in levels of trust in the CDC between May and October 2020 in light of COVID-19.
Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening the US Public Health Infrastructure
This report was completed to better understand current weaknesses and challenges that are impacting the US public health system’s infrastructure and to id...
Adapting and Aligning Public Health Strategic Skills
This report provides an analysis of ways in which public health skills can be used to increase its effectiveness. This serves as a sector analysis with the goal...
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 Workforce Development Action Plan
This webpage provides information on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s approach and action plan to public health workforce development. Data...
Exploring the Public Health Workforce Through Data Visualization
This interactive data visualization provides information from the latest edition of PH WINS (conducted in 2017) in five sections: demographic data, retention tr...
Understanding the Dynamics of Diversity in the Public Health Workforce
This article analyzes the nature and component pieces of diversity within the public health workforce in the United States. It provides key statistical informat...
The State of the U.S. Governmental Public Health Workforce, 2014-2017
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...
Succession Planning in State Health Agencies in the United States: A Brief Report
This journal article provides information on succession planning in the United States in state health agencies.
Public Health Workforce Taxonomy
This paper presents a new public health workforce taxonomy and explains the process in which it was developed.
Public Health Workforce 3.0: Recent Progress and What’s on the Horizon to Achieve the 21st-Century Workforce
This journal article highlights recent accomplishments and important areas for future attention to continue the path toward the public health workforce of the 2...
Public Health Law and Science in the Community Mitigation Strategy for COVID-19
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...
Considerations for Implementing and Adjusting Public Health and Social Measures in the Context of COVID-19
This webpage provides guidance to help World Health Organization member states assess the COVID-19 pandemic at national and sub-national levels, as well as key ...
Common Agenda
This resource outlines the vision, mission, and goals of the National Consortium for Public Health Workforce Development. Some of these goals include advancing ...
Building Skills for a More Strategic Public Health Workforce: A Call to Action
This guide describes strategic skills for the governmental public health workforce, recommendations for workforce development, and potential actions that can be...
MCH Navigator: COVID-19
This webpage provides information and resources for self-care within the scope of maternal and child health. It also provides details on various aspects of mate...
Maternal and Child Health Digital Library
The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Digital Library provides access to current evidence to support State Title V programs, community agencies, educators, studen...
MCH Navigator
This website provides learning material to foster competency-based learning and leadership in the field of maternal and child health. Various links are provided...
Public Health Workforce Development Resources
This webpage provides a set of resources and learning material for public health workforce professional development. The material provided aims at increasing co...
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Advice for the Public: Mythbusters
This webpage provides instructions on how to report COVID-19 misinformation and mythbusters on COVID-19 topics themselves.
The Importance of Diversity in Public Health
This article provides information on the connection between discrimination and public health outcomes. It also discusses the need for a more diverse public heal...
Isolation and Quarantine
This blog details what public health leaders need to know about the legal issues regarding quarantine and isolation during COVID-19.
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...
Public Health Threats and the US Constitution: What Responders Need To Know About Equity, Law, and Public Health Authority
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...
State And Local Health Department Governance Classification Map
This map identifies structural differences of public health governance structures across states to understand the roles, responsibilities, and authorizes for se...
Legal Preparedness Series
This series of toolkits addresses the key needs of public health officials in understanding and using legal authorities to prepare for and respond to public hea...
Emergency Authority and Immunity Toolkit
This toolkit addresses critical concepts regarding federal and state emergency declarations and the various response authorities and liability protections these...
Current Emergencies
This toolkit provides coronavirus disease press releases from 2019 regarding telehealth, clinical, technical, billing, coding, Medicaid, Medicare and open payme...
Public Health and Information Sharing Toolkit
This toolkit provides overviews, guidelines, fact sheets, resource materials and updates on public health and information sharing.
Bulletin: Civil Rights Protections Prohibiting Race, Color and National Origin Discrimination During COVID‐19
This letter written by HHS provides the details pertaining the application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Emergency Legal Preparedness Primer
This presentation provides information and objective guidance on emerging issues of law and policy, core legal preparedness and response issues.
Legal And Regulatory Framework For Emergency Public Health Medical Response
This resource outlines the legal and regulatory framework for emergency public health medical responses in Washington State, detailing the roles and authorities...
Medicaid Emergency Authority Tracker: Approved State Actions To Address COVID-19
This data tool tracks details and the timeline of approved Medicaid emergency authorities in the US during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The app...
State’S COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declarations And Mask Requirements
This map and chart describes each state’s emergency orders and actions designed to safeguard residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Misinformation Alerts
A list of currently circulating misinformation curated from automated social media review and public health analysis. Misinformation is organized into three cat...
Training And Educational Resources
This data bank is a growing portfolio of courses and other learning materials on public health law featuring trainings and educational resources for public heal...
Individual Rights And The Public’s Health: Constitutional, Ethical, And Political Aspects Of COVID-19 Measures And Their Enforcement
This article discusses the publics response to stay at home orders, mandatory business closures and mask mandates.
Two Centuries of Law Guide Legal Approach to Modern Pandemic
This article discusses legal limits on government actions during the health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic.
How State Health Departments Can Help Build Trust in Public Health and Promote Health Equity During Covid and Beyond
This video, featuring national and state-based experts on the front line of chronic disease prevention, provides information on the ways in which stat...
Carol Rao, Scd, Looks At Pandemic’s Impact On Public Health Workers
This video highlights the mental health impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the public health workforce, including top-level results from a new CDC study.
Public Health Workforce Burnout
This audio recording includes discussion about the state of our public health workforce with Jennifer Horney of the University of Delaware and Lisa Macon Harris...
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...
COVID-19 Public Participation Resources: Overcoming Challenges In Crisis
This website provides a collection of resources and tools for community participation in public health efforts around the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual tools are a...
Engaging Communities As Experts Throughout The Assessment Process
This webpage provides information on community engagement for public health professionals. It contextualizes community engagement within the framework of commun...
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...
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...
Pandemic Experts Are Not Ok
This article discusses the mental health challenges facing public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides contextual understanding of the work ...
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 ...
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...
Community Health Assessment And Improvement Planning
This webpage provides a description of steps and links to additional resources that may be used to conduct a community health improvement process.
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...
Emergency Situations: Preparedness, Planning, and Response
This webpage provides information on the release of protected health information for planning purposes in emergency situations and guidance about sharing patien...
Fighting Compassion Fatigue During Public Health Epidemics
This webpage examines the opioid overdose epidemic as a case study in compassion fatigue during public health epidemics.
Natural Disasters and COVID-19: Preparedness Information for Specific Groups
This webpage offers instructions on how children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic diseases, disabilities, and mental health disorders can appr...
Public Health Emergency Declarations
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 ...
Legal Authority Of The Secretary
This webpage by the Department of Health and Human Services provides general information about the Secretary’s legal authorities during public health and ...
Policymakers And Health Systems Must Earn Trust Within Communities Of Color And Tribal Nations To Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Receptivity, Say Health And Public Health Leaders
This webpage summarizes findings from the policy brief prepared by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and co-authors the National Medical Association (NMA)...
COVID-19: Disaster Preparedness And Vulnerable Population: A Workshop Series
This website provides the information for the series of three virtual public workshops exploring issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and disaster preparedne...
COVID-19: Data Sharing For Public Health Surveillance, Investigation And Intervention
This webinar highlights federal and state laws like HIPPA that affect public health’s ability to share COVID-19 information and data.
Public Health Under Threat: An Examination Of State Laws Protecting Public Health Officials From Harassment
This webinar shares results from a national survey on criminal statutes that protect public health officials, analyzes burnout and employee turnover, and discus...
The Abc’s Of Administrative Law In Public Health Practice
An introduction to administrative law, this webinar explains how public health agencies can implement and enforce their policies and programs at all government ...
Ensuring Changes In Emergency Powers And Public Health Authority Will Protect Health
This webinar explores the nature of recent laws and legislation in various states and explains principles that should guide future legislation to include facts,...
Proposed Limits On Public Health Authority: Dangerous For Public Health
Amidst dissatisfaction and anger at public health officials in response to COVID-19, this webinar organized with National Association of County and City Health ...
Communication Strategies To Build Confidence And Trust In COVID-19 Vaccines
This webinar sponsored by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health features a panel of public health officials who address communication strateg...
COVID-19 Vaccine: Trust And Communication
This video piece covers the value of fact-based health communication in the process of building trust in the COVID-19 vaccine.
Hesitancy, Equity, and Transparency: Rolling Out The COVID-19 Vaccine
In this video piece speakers address the issues related to building trust and trustworthiness between communities and those bringing vaccinations to the communi...
Building Trust and Equity in Contact Tracing: Interview with Tracing Health’s Dr. Marta Induni
This video discusses how systemic racism and health inequities contribute to COVID-19 rates among Black and Latinx people, how Tracing Health is addressing thes...
Building Public Trust For Public Health
This video from the Laura Flanders Show interviews three public health officials explore the roots of vaccine hesitancy, methods for rebuilding public trust, an...
Public Health Strategy And The Police Powers Of The State
This article provides an overview of the doctrine of state police power, addresses recent limitations on public health police powers, then uses quarantine order...
Law And Public Health Emergency Preparedness And Response-Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic, Report Snapshot
This article provides a snapshot of the IFRC’s report on law and public health emergency preparedness and response.
Proposed Limits On Public Health Authority: Dangerous For Public Health
This report explores the history of public health authority, including longstanding and recent efforts to undermine it. It provides arguments to counter propose...
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.
How Have States Used Medicaid Emergency Authorities During COVID-19 And What Can We Learn?
This policy brief summarizes how states have used Medicaid emergency authorities related to the COVID-19 PHE, providing potential lessons for future public heal...
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...
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...
Symptoms Of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, And Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, And Territorial Public Health Workers During The COVID-19 Pandemic
This journal article discusses how implementing prevention and control practices that eliminate, reduce, and manage factors that cause or contribute to public h...
Impacts of COVID-19 Response on the Public Health Workforce
This journal article highlights how individual and organizational aspects of the COVID-19 response impacted mental health, as well as strengths, weaknesses, opp...
Health Equity and the Public Health Code of Ethics: Rebuilding Trust From the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article applies the Public Health Code of Ethics (2019) to COVID-19 response efforts. It argues that aligning public health practice with the code of ethic...
An Opportunity To Build Legitimacy And Trust In Public Institutions In The Time Of COVID-19
This journal article utilizes available research on governance and the political economy to make the case that governments in developing countries have an oppor...
US Emergency Legal Responses To Novel Coronavirus: Balancing Public Health And Civil Liberties
This article explains the legality of public health emergency declarations including compulsory powers, health assessments, quarantine, and travel restrictions.
Public Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned And Compelling Needs
This article discusses the interdisciplinary functions of public health, the effects of legacy systems and policies on the sector’s response to COVID-19, ...
Trust in Public Health Is Essential Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article describes the challenges public health and healthcare leaders face in building trust. It also includes strategies to combat issues like attachment ...
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 model for developing and maintaining trust in public health officials during food safety incidents and scandals might be applied...
Building Public Trust: A Response To COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Predicament
This study reviews data on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and advocates for a localized process in educating the public. It further advocates for public health offi...
Legal Resource Guide
This legal resource guide’s core objective is to produce a strategic assessment of legal or policy issues affecting the development of a regional model to...
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....
State And Local Public Health: An Overview Of Regulatory Authority
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...
What Is Public Health Law?
This factsheet defines public health law and explores sources of legal authority including constitutions, legislation, regulations, and case law.
Coronavirus Emergency Management Best Practices
This data bank is a compilation of the best practices and lessons learned that communities faced fighting COVID-19.
Public Health Law News
This newsletter provides noteworthy news and content of potential interest to readers on public health law.
Virtual Resource Center For Public Health Emergency Preparedness
This virtual resource center serves as a repository for state-focused resources pertaining to public health emergency preparedness policy.
Emergency Use Authorization
This data bank contains a variety of resources on COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for vaccines, drugs, medical devices and more.
Topic Collection: COVID-19 Legal/Regulatory/Authorities Resources
This repository stores general information, tools, plans and templates on COVID-19 legal resources.
Dataset: Public Health Official Departures
This data bank tracks the exits of state and local public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic
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.
The Governmental Public Health Infrastructure
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 ...
The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century
This book outlines a systems approach for public health, discussing the need for a population-based framework for practice, research, policy, and community enga...
Your Public Health Workers Are Not Okay
This blog discusses the various elements that contribute to frontline worker burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic.
US Public Health Workers Leaving ‘In Droves’ Amid Pandemic Burnout
This article discusses the burnout crisis among frontline medical staff and public health workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The story also discusses...
The Pandemic Has Pushed More Than 250 Public Health Officials Out The Door
This story discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health officials and the attitudes that the public holds towards them. It outlines how backla...
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 to address health care worker shortages through the ...
Public Health Workforce Resilience Resource Library
This library provides resources and trainings to help public health workers build resilience.
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...
‘Their Tank Is Empty’: Public Health Officials Combat Staff Burnout, Low Pay, Harassment
This article explains the challenges facing public health departments as it pertains to burnout, harassment, and pay cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus Vaccines: Health Experts Identify Ways To Build Public Trust
The article highlights the eight principles that is believed to increase trust, acceptance and demand for vaccination
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...
Pandemic Highlights The Barrier Represented By The Public Health Regulatory Structure
This article discusses the barriers to modernization of the public health system posed by existing regulatory structures and suggests priority areas for utilizi...
Pandemic Backlash Jeopardizes Public Health Powers, Leaders
This story gives examples of recent legislation aimed at weakening public health authority and discusses rising rates of burnout among officials.
Public Health Regulations
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...
Why Public Health Faces A Crisis Across The U.S.
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...
New State Laws Hamstring Public Health Officials
This article explores how new states laws passed during COVID-19 curtail health agencies’ emergency powers to invoke restrictions like quarantines and mas...
Why Trust Is Vital To Public Health Strategy
This article explores the relationship between trust, basic psychological needs, and the importance of promoting mental health during COVID-19.
Enhancing Public Trust And Health With COVID-19 Vaccination
This interview explores six key findings from a report from the Center for Health Security’s vaccine working group alongside top concerns and barriers to ...
Leadership In COVID-19: Building Public Trust Is Key
This article from the UK examines the relationship between public trust and science, the consequences of losing trust, and emerging government strategies.
Why Building Trust in Vaccines Is Good for Protecting Public Health
This article provides historical context for global COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and advises a multi-sector and empathetic communication strategy for building tru...
Building Back Trust In Science And America’s Public Health Agencies
This article provides context and action steps for rebuilding trust in science and public health agencies during and beyond COVID-10. It encourages provision of...
5 Things You Can Do To Build Trust In COVID-19 Vaccines
Aimed at children and young adults, this article outlines five ways people can build trust in the COVID-19 vaccine and ensure equitable distribution. They inclu...
To Make Progress, Focus On Building Trust
This blog post explores the relationship between public trust and health in the context of COVID-19. It focuses on trust within disenfranchised communities in a...
Protecting Privacy and Transforming COVID-19 Case Surveillance Datasets for Public Use
This article describes how CDC designed and produced two de-identified datasets for public use from person-level, de-identified data collected by the CDC from j...
Understanding the New Recommendations on COVID-19 Boosters
In this Q&A, Eric Rubin, adjunct professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, editor-in-chief of the New E...
Lab Testing Capacity and Capability Data Dashboard
Since April 2020, the Association of Public Health Labs (APHL) has conducted a weekly survey of 99 state, local and territorial public health laboratories (PHLs...
Countering the Infodemic: Fighting Fake News during COVID-19
This webpage links to a webinar hosted from the Skoll World Forum. Jenneke Olsen, of the Skoll Foundation, introduces public health and communication experts Ch...
Clear Voice Award Recipients Discuss Public Health Communication
This webpage provides an introduction to Clear Voice Award honorees Anne Schuchat, MD and Michelle Williams, ScD and their work in the field of public health co...
COVID-19 and Public Health Departments: Helpful Resources
This website provides educational resources related to the prevention and mitigation of the spread of COVID-19. Resources are listed as articles, webinars, and ...
National Hispanic Medical Association “Vaccinate4All” Campaign: COVID-19 Briefings Summary Report
This article provides a summary of recommendations from the National Hispanic Medical Association on the public health approach to prevention and treatment of C...
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
This website provides resources and literature on best practices related to community prevention, vaccination, testing, and treatment of COVID-19 from the State...
Choose Healthy Life: COVID-19 Basics Resources
This website provides resources and literature on best practices related to community prevention, vaccination, contact tracing, testing, and treatment of COVID-...
COVID-19: Preparedness and Response
This webpage provides a collection of academic news, journal articles, blogs, and other information related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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...
Vaccinating Black Californians Through Faith Communities
This case study focuses on how the San Francisco African American Faith-Based Coalition successfully vaccinated more than 700 African American community members...
Vaccine Equity Strategy Series: Concrete Best Practices and Ideas for Communities
This webpage provides short, actionable advice and best practices to guide communities’ efforts to advance vaccine access and equity.
Helping Restaurants Reduce Spread of COVID-19
This article discusses how health departments can support restaurants with navigating workplace safety challenges during COVID-19, such as source control and ma...
COVID-19 Science Corner
This webpage provides a collection of reports, journal articles, and other resources on science and research related to COVID-19.
COVID-19 Maps, Graphs, & Figures
This webpage provides a collection of maps, graphs, and figures about COVID-19 from leading organizations around the United States.
Carrying Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination Forward: Guidance Informed by Communities of Color
This article highlights key points from a report by CommuniVax on how state and local officials can better serve groups with persistently low vaccine coverage. ...
What We Do and Don’t Know About Long COVID and Long-Haulers
This article provides insights into long COVID, where people who had COVID-19 continue to experience lingering symptoms long after their initial infection. It d...
New Data on COVID-19 Transmission by Vaccinated Individuals
In this article, Dr. Amesh Adalja provides answers to questions regarding COVID-19 vaccinations, immunity, breakthrough infections, and the risks for vaccinated...
Keys to the Navajo Nation’s COVID-19 Vaccination Success
This article shares the experiences of Dr. Laura Hammitt, Dr. Allison Barlow, and Leonela Nelson with COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the Navajo Nation. They di...
The Antidote to Vaccine Hesitancy
This article features Dr. Rupali Limaye, who discusses the roots of vaccine hesitancy, how she responds to it, and what can be done to address and prevent vacci...
COVID-19 Response: Public Health In Action
This webpage presents COVID-19 and related information from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. It is organized into five main sections: knowledge in acti...
Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Tools for Epidemiologists
This toolkit of tools and resources is intended to support the growing workforce of case investigators and contact tracers. It is organized into two main catego...
A Call to Action to Defeat COVID-19 and Promote National Recovery and Renewal
This call to action presents recommendations that emerged from public health consensus on what is needed to overcome COVID-19; it includes recommendations for f...
Equity Lens Tool for Health Departments
This tool is intended for health departments and officials to help with making equity-centered decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Response Hub
This data and map hub was created to support state and territorial agencies with responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by sharing map visualizations of COVID-19 d...
The Importance of Crisis Communications in Public Health
This podcast features guest speakers, Dr. Umair Shah and Dr. Khalilah LeGrand, who share insights and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic on crisis com...
Continuing to Lead With Empathy on COVID-19 Vaccine Education
This article discusses the importance and effectiveness of leading with empathy in providing public health communication on COVID-19 vaccines.
The Ongoing COVID Response and Next Pandemic
This webinar features a panel of experts who consider the impact of data collection on addressing the current pandemic and ways to leverage data to prepare for ...
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...
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.
Creating the Healthiest Nation: Opportunity Youth
This fact sheet focuses on “opportunity youth,” also referred to as disconnected youth, the risk factors for and impact of youth disconnection, and ...
Health Equity
This webpage was created by the American Public Health Association to support health equity. It contains a collection of fact sheets, briefs, reports, and infog...
Racism and Health
This webpage is intended to support efforts against racism and provides guides, videos, and toolkits on how to promote health equity and racial healing.
COVID-19 Guidance for Higher Risk Populations
This webpage presents a collection of resources and tools to help support populations at higher risk for COVID-19 mortality and morbidity; high risk communities...
COVID-19 APHA in the News
This webpage was created by the American Public Health Association to help counteract the “infodemic” of misinformation regarding COVID-19 and relat...
COVID-19 and Equity
This webpage provides a compilation of webinars, articles, tools, and stories on how the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated health inequities. It provides resourc...
COVIDGuia.org
This webpage was developed by the American Public Health Association in collaboration with the Latino Caucus for Public Health. It presents a compilation of COV...
Webinars – NACCHO
This webpage provides information regarding past, current, and upcoming webinars from NACCHO and their partners. Users can register for upcoming webinars and ac...
Public Health Messaging Across the Political Divide in the Time of COVID
This website provides information on public health messaging across the political divide in the time of COVID-19.
COVID-19 Resources
This webpage provides a compilation of COVID-19 vaccine equity resources, publications, webinars, and initiatives.
Young People and Long COVID
This resource discusses effects of, data on and lessons to be learned from young people with long COVID-19.
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...
Unvaccinated Adults: Vaccine Mandates are a Greater Threat than COVID-19
This article discusses a new national poll that shows unvaccinated Americans consider mandates a greater threat to their health and safety than being exposed to...
Foundations Response to Crisis: Toward Equity?
This report (the second in a three-part series) explores how foundations are supporting communities hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic–Black, Latino, Na...
COVIDGuidance.org
This webpage features information on COVID-19 guidance from trusted, credible sources specifically regarding vaccination, COVID-19 impact, general reopening and...
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 publi...
COVID-19 Response, Recovery, and Resilience
This is a collection of learning resources from subject matter experts working in public health institutes and regional public health training centers that have...
COVID-19 Tracking Survey
The COVID-19 Tracking Survey provides regular snapshots of the pandemic’s impact on the lives of New Yorkers, and is intended to provide policymakers, hea...
Hey Google, Which Social Distancing Policies Work Best?
This article describes how Boston University faculty analyzed data from the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports provide insight on how people’s mov...
Prioritizing Equity
This multi-part video series from the American Medical Association outlines how COVID-19 and other determinants of health impact marginalized communities, publi...
COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
This tool allows users to view reports on how communities’ movement has changed over time by geography. Users can search by country or region. It is inten...
What Is the Scope of Public Health Authority
This video is intended for public health practitioners, trainers, and faculty and provides an overview of the powers and limits of public health.
Vaccine Distribution and Misinformation
This webinar discusses the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process, COVID-19 vaccine logistics, COVID-19 vaccine language polling and misinformation resources on ...
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...
Housing Instability and COVID-19
This infographic presents an overview of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing security and provides three key areas where public health can help addr...
COVID-19 Vaccination: An Equitable Response
This document provides guidance on how to develop and implement an equitable vaccine response. It contains information on how to most equitably prioritize vacci...
Supporting Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Education
This article introduces Kaiser Permanente’s equity education campaign, which was launched to provide trusted information on COVID-19 and vaccinations to A...
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.
Communications Toolkit for COVID Data Tracker
This toolkit provides a variety of communication materials to support COVID-19 data tracking, including social media graphics, data visualizations, videos, and ...
Webinar: Public Health Communications Collaborative, Oct. 1, 2020
This communications webinar provides advice and guidance on effective messaging for issues related to COVID-19.
Communities get Creative to Help Vulnerable People During COVID-19
This article focuses on Mesa, Arizona’s efforts to ensure that vulnerable populations continued to have their food and health needs met; it highlights the...
US Public Health Meets COVID-19 Head-on: Pandemic Squeezes Long-underfunded Public Health System
This article focuses on the efforts of public health officials in Jackson County, a rural county in West Virginia, to educate, prepare, and protect residents fr...
COVID-19 Pandemic Fueling Rise in Child Hunger: Malnutrition, Wasting Risks Rise Among Youth Around World
This article focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated child hunger and malnutrition throughout the world, which in turn translates to higher vulnera...
Interpersonal and Structural Violence in the Wake of COVID-19
This article explores the interpersonal and structural violence that may take place in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic; it explains the various social forces that...
Enough: COVID-19, Structural Racism, Police Brutality, Plutocracy, Climate Change–and Time for Health Justice, Democratic Governance, and an Equitable, Sustainable Future
This editorial presents a reflection of racial injustice in the United States, how it contributes to health disparities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Public Support for Social Safety-Net Policies for COVID-19 in the United States, April 2020
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...
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...
COVID-19 and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: The Pandemic’s Influence on an Adolescent Epidemic
This article discusses how COVID-19 pandemic quarantine measures and stay-at-home orders have affected adolescent mental health, with a focus on nonsuicidal sel...
The HIV Pandemic Prevention Efforts Can Inform the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the United States
This article explains how lessons learned from the HIV pandemic can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the importance of clear, accurate communi...
COVID-19 Surveillance Data: A Primer for Epidemiology and Data Science
This article highlights the importance of and need for reliable, high-quality COVID-19 surveillance data. It provides a detailed chart of suggestions on how to ...
Change Over Time in Public Support for Social Distancing, Mask Wearing, and Contact Tracing to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic Among US Adults, April to November 2020
This article presents the findings of a study on factors that influence support for COVID-19 mitigation measures, such as social distancing, use of PPE, and con...
Occupational Health Surveillance as a Tool for COVID-19 Prevention
This article highlights the need for a robust occupational health surveillance system to better understand and respond to inequitable health outcomes. It would ...
E-Cigarette Use Among Youths and Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: United States, 2020
This article presents the findings of a study on the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on e-cigarette use among youth and young adults in the United St...
Stay-at-Home Orders, Mobility Patterns, and Spread of COVID-19
This article presents the findings of a study on how stay-at-home orders affected mobility patterns and the spread of COVID-19.
Employer-Mandated Vaccination for COVID-19
This article explores the legal and public health policy issues related to employer mandates for COVID-19 vaccinations, and provides an overview of historical v...
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...
Essential or Expendable During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Student-Lived Experience on Grieving the Unjust and Early Deaths of Vulnerable Populations
In this article, the author shares her experiences of how COVID-19 has affected her family and how agricultural and food-processing plant workers are labeled as...
A National Framework to Improve Mortality, Morbidity, and Disparities Data for COVID-19 and Other Large-Scale Disasters
This article explores the recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that would allow a more uniform, timely, and accura...
Disease-Specific Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Weekly US Death Data for 2020
This article presents the findings of an analysis of 2020 weekly mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics. The authors examine the trajecto...
Toward a New Strategic Public Health Science for Policy, Practice, Impact, and Health Equity
This article presents a new strategic science agenda for public health and highlights six areas of focus: health equity science, data science and modernization,...
COVID-19 in Marginalized Communities: Shifting From Descriptive to Interventional Research
This article focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting marginalized communities and makes the case for public health professionals to move from mainly t...
Of Mice and Schoolchildren: A Conceptual History of Herd Immunity
This article explores the concept of herd immunity–how individual biological defenses can be made relevant to larger populations and grant collective immu...
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. Details on why stude...
COVID-19 Testing Communications Toolkit
This website is intended to help people communicate the importance of COVID-19 testing. It provides various tutorials and materials to help clearly educate indi...
How Can Businesses Make Communities Stronger and Healthier?
This blog post and video explores how public health and business leaders can work together to promote healthy communities. It discusses challenges, opportunitie...
When COVID Doesn’t Go Away
This article shares the stories of people who are experiencing long-term COVID-19 symptoms, also known as long COVID and post acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infec...
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Communication Toolkit for Health Departments
This communications toolkit is intended for state and local health departments. It contains ready-to-use, adaptable key messages, sample talking points, public ...
COVID-19 and Return to In-Person Learning: Communicating with Constituents
This webinar features a panel of speakers, who discuss how to effectively communicate with families, teachers, and school officials regarding the return to in-p...
Webinar: A Conversation with U.S. Surgeon General Murthy
This video features U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, who is interviewed by Dr. J. Nadine Gracia on the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss public health commun...
Experts Fear Suicide, Deaths of Despair Will Rise in Wake of COVID-19: Mental Health Crisis
This article focuses on the mental health crisis that has arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the actions and policies needed to help prev...
COVID-19 Killing Front-line Health Workers, Especially People of Color
This article reveals the inequitable burden of COVID-19 on front-line health workers, especially people of color. It also highlights the importance of access to...
The Secret Weapon Against Pandemics
This webinar features guest speaker, Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, who discusses what is needed to end the pandemic and prevent future ones. He also explains the rol...
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.
Pop-up Clinics Bringing Vaccines to People who Need Them Most: Meeting People Where They are on COVID-19
This article focuses on the efforts of the Coachella Valley Equity Collaborative, which helped address vaccine misinformation, promoted vaccine clinics, and hel...
COVID-19 Vaccines
This webpage contains a compilation of resources related to the COVID-19 vaccine. The information provided ranges frequently asked questions about the vaccine t...
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 have faced due to COVID-19. It also suggests opportunities to provide robu...
Anti-Asian Xenophobia and Asian American COVID-19 Disparities
This article focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Asian Americans, and draws parallels between current events and historical incidences where Asian...
Housing as a Determinant of COVID-19 Inequities
This article discusses the importance of housing as a determinant of health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; for instance, affordability, overcrowding, ...
Potential Impact of COVID-19-Related Racial Discrimination on the Health of Asian Americans
This article provides an overview of anti-Asian discrimination in the United States, explains how racial discrimination influences health, and explores the impl...
The Case for a National SNAP Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program
This article makes the case for implementing a fruit and vegetable incentive nationally for the SNAP program in order to support healthy eating behaviors.
The Contribution of Prisons and Jails to US Racial Disparities During COVID-19
This article focuses on racial inequities in correctional facilities and examines how these health inequities have been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and International Students: Experiences and Resolutions Beyond COVID-19
This article shares the stories and experiences of BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) public health students in the context of COVID-19.
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 ...
Food Insecurity in a Low-Income, Predominantly African American Cohort Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article presents the findings of a study on how COVID-19 closures affected food security in low-income, predominantly African American communities.
Projected All-Cause Deaths Attributable to COVID-19-Related Unemployment in the United States
This article presents the findings of a study on excess deaths associated with COVID-19-related unemployment. It examines inequities by age, race/ethnicity, gen...
An Overburdened Charitable Food System: Making the Case for Increased Government Support During the COVID-19 Crisis
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...
The Importance of Federal Waivers and Technology in Ensuring Access to WIC During COVID-19
This article presents a case study of a WIC agency in LA County and how they successfully maintained and expanded WIC access to families in need. It highlights ...
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 ...
Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for US Death Investigation Systems
This article explores excess deaths–the deaths beyond the expected number of deaths under normal conditions–in the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses t...
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...
Shelter Characteristics, Infection Prevention Practices, and Universal Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at Homeless Shelters in 7 US Urban Areas
This journal article examines houseless shelter characteristics and infection prevention practices in relation to COVID-19 infection prevalence during universal...
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...
Still in the Dark Regarding the Public Health Impact of COVID-19 on Sexual and Gender Minorities
This article examines the need for COVID-19 data for sexual and gender minorities. More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, only five states have collected ...
Implementation of a COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Clinic to College Students in Montana
This article focuses on the proceedings of a large-scale collaborative intervention of practice measures and COVID-19 vaccine administration to college students...
Messaging Resources
This collection of curated messaging resources from the Public Health Communications Collaborative are designed to help public health leaders deliver fact-based...
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...
Webinar: Overcoming Barriers To Equitable And Effective COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
This webinar presents case examples and recommendations from experts on COVID-19 vaccination plans and partnerships and processes to improve access, build trust...
Resources for Community Health Workers, Community Health Representatives, and Health Promoters
This webpage is intended to support the work of community health workers (CHWs) by providing resources on personal protection, COVID-19 safety practices, how to...
COVID-19 Vaccine Resources for Community-Based Workforces
This website is intended to help provide local community-based workforces and other caregivers with up-to-date, tailored, and sharable tools to communicate abou...
Environmental Health and COVID-19 Resource Library
This resource library contains curated resources on how to address the needs of environmental public health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes info...
Contact Tracing Resources for COVID-19 Response
This resource hub highlights useful resources from governmental public health, academia, think tanks, and nonprofits to support local health departments in desi...
COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Toolkit
This toolkit offers resources and strategies for care delivery organizations, health plans, and state and local governments to ensure everyone has access to lif...
Enhancing Influenza and COVID19 Vaccine Uptake
This webinar is the first in a series of Learning Network Webinars and features Dr. Sandra Quinn, who shares her experiences and insights on how to enhance infl...
Webinar: Communication Strategies to Build Confidence and Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines
This webinar features a panel of public health leaders who address how to build confidence and trust in COVID-19 vaccines and discuss effective communication st...
Case Study: Successful COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Communities
This webinar features guest speakers, Dr. Brian C. Castrucci, Dr. Ayne Amjad, and Dr. Costello and, who present new polling about vaccine confidence and insight...
Vaccine Hesitancy Impacts on State and Local Vaccine Planning
This webinar is the second in a series of Learning Network Webinars and looks at how vaccine hesitancy and deliberation impacts state and local vaccine planning...
Maintaining Social Connections in the Setting of COVID-19 Social Distancing: A Call to Action
The article provides recommendations for how to maintain social connections during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also discusses mental health support lines, special...
Country & Technical Guidance – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
This webpage provides a compilation of technical guidance for countries on a variety of topics, including: critical preparedness, readiness, and response action...
Food Insecurity During COVID-19: An Acute Crisis With Long-Term Health Implications
This article focuses on food insecurity in the United States in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights key statistics on food insecurity, health disp...
Why Debunking Misinformation Is Not Enough to Change People’s Minds About Vaccines
This article examines vaccine hesitancy, with a focus on COVID-19 vaccines. It discusses concerns and conspiracy theories driving COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, th...
Building Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines and Beyond Through Authentic Community Investment
The article explores the role of trust building for COVID-19 vaccinations in communities of color. It also discusses systemic disinvestment, structural racism, ...
The Impending Eviction Cliff: Housing Insecurity During COVID-19
This article focuses on housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly housing security for renters. It examines policy initiatives and the degre...
Variation in Reporting of the Race and Ethnicity of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Across US States: April 12, 2020, and November 9, 2020
This article looks at the gaps in data reporting for COVID-19 cases and deaths, particularly missing race/ethnicity data. It also discusses the importance of su...
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons From the 2008 Great Recession
This editorial discusses how the lessons learned from the 2008 recession and its economic and public health consequences may be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Achieving Vaccine Equity: Resources & Best Practices to Bringing Down Barriers
This webpage presents a collection of tools, resources and best practices to support communities’ efforts in addressing barriers in accessing vaccines, in...
Direct and Indirect Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Parallel Prior Pandemics
This article focuses on the potential direct mental health impact experienced by patients with COVID-19, as well as the indirect mental health consequences of t...
Depression, Anxiety, and Alcohol Use Among LGBTQ+ People During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article presents the findings of a study on the disparities in depression, anxiety, and problem drinking by sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and gender...
The Need for COVID-19 LGBTQ-Specific Data
This editorial discusses the need for LGBTQ-specific data and examines the role of the federal government to address this data gap.
Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic
This podcast series focuses on current health concerns and explores how the public health landscape influences personal health. More specifically, this series d...
The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2021
This annual report examines public health funding trends and recommends investments and policy actions to build a stronger public health system, prioritize prev...
How to Advocate for Good Jobs to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Address Health Inequity with Recent Federal Funding
This toolkit serves as a reference for community-based organizations and other advocates that wish to secure funding to expand the public health workforce in th...
COVID-19 K-12 School Testing Impact Estimator
This impact estimator is designed to help schools and public health agencies decide whether and how to implement COVID-19 testing. The results shown were produc...
Achieving Vaccine Equity: Resources and Best Practices to Bringing Down Barriers
This webpage provides a compilation of tools, resources, and best practices to support vaccine access efforts. It addresses various potential barriers including...
Conducting a Virtual Public Deliberation on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
This webpage is intended to support local and state health departments with public deliberation (PD). It compiles a set of resources and tools, including recrui...
Changing the COVID Conversation
This website highlights messaging, language, and approaches that are most likely to build support for public health measures and confidence in COVID-19 vaccines...
Vaccine Voices
This website aims to raise awareness and amplify promising practices in building vaccine confidence and equitably vaccinating the health care workforce. It incl...
Health Equity: Promoting Fair Access to Health
This webpage provides an overview of health equity in the context of COVID-19 and a collection of toolkits, articles, webinars, and more on how to promote fair ...
Responding to COVID-19: A Science-Based Approach
The webinar series provides trustworthy scientific analysis of the latest COVID-19 developments for the benefit of policymakers, public health and health care o...
Out-of-Hospital COVID-19 Deaths: Consequences for Quality of Medical Care and Accuracy of Cause of Death Coding
This article presents the findings of a study on age and temporal trends in COVID-19 deaths occurring out of hospital or in the emergency department and the pro...
Health Inequity and the Unfair Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Essential Workers
This article focuses on the inequities and structural risk factors that have caused essential workers, communities of color, and marginalized communities to be ...
Income and Income Inequality Are a Matter of Life and Death. What Can Policymakers Do About It?
This article examines the effects of income inequalities on health outcomes, and explore medium- to long-term policy options for addressing income and wealth in...
Misinformation Alerts – Public Health Communications Collaborative
This website provides a regularly updated list of misinformation from many sources, such as social media, broadcast television, newspapers and magazines, news w...
Seven Ways Businesses Can Align with Public Health for Bold Action and Innovation
This report presents seven practical steps that businesses can take to strengthen partnerships and improve the health of their employees, communities, and the n...
New Data: State Prisons are Increasingly Deadly Places
This article focuses on the increase in deaths by suicide, homicide, and intoxication in state prisons; according to the data released by the Bureau of Justice ...
Towards a Health-Informed Approach to Penal Reform? Evidence from Ten Countries
This report makes the case for reforming the justice system and incarceration policies. It examines use of imprisonment in ten countries, presents the health ri...
Prison Reform and Alternatives to Imprisonment
This post makes the case for promoting prison reform by examining not only human rights considerations but also the impact of imprisonment on families and commu...
Why is Prison a Public Health Issue?
This webpage provides a compilation of articles, videos, books, podcasts, and more on the public health issue of prison abolition.
Incarceration is a Public Health Crisis, During COVID-19 and Beyond
This blog post discusses the public health consequences of incarceration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and acts as a call to action for investing in p...
The Public Health Case for Prison Abolition During COVID-19
This blog post makes the case for prison abolition and explains why it is a public health necessity. It also lays out more effective alternatives to incarcerati...
Trend-Bending Policies for Advancing Racial Justice: Abolition and Liberation are Public Health’s Greatest Charges
Incarceration is now often cited as a means of correcting behavior, at which it is remarkably ineffectual given the high rates of recidivism in the U.S. Systemi...
Guidelines for the Successful Transition of People with Behavioral Health Disorders from Jail and Prison
This set of guidelines are intended to assist behavioral health and corrections, and community corrections administrators in their ability to develop effective ...
Community-Based Workforce Principles for Pandemic Response and Resilience
This webpage serves as a guide to help state and local leaders and allies advance urgent health equity priorities as part of COVID-19 response and recovery effo...
Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker: Supporting the Recovery from COVID-19
This interactive data visualization tool allows users to track the economic impacts of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities in the United States. Use...
Critical Resistance: Towards Healthy Communities Now and Beyond COVID-19
This site lays out a platform for COVID-19 emergency response in a way that supports freedom, health, and collective care, and actively resists the prison indus...
Abolitionist Platform toward Healthy Communities Now and Beyond COVID-19
This webpage lays out a platform for COVID-19 emergency response in a way that supports freedom, health, and collective care, and actively resists the prison in...
Katrina, Flint, COVID-19: The Root Changes Public Health Needs
In this podcast, AJPH attempts to answer three questions: How effective has the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic been? Were the major but localized crises o...
Meaningful Work & Wealth and COVID-19
Nearly a century ago, a robust set of policies and programs forever changed our expectations of the government. The implementation of the New Deal in 1933 set t...
Lifelong Learning and COVID-19
Stronger Together: Aligning Public Health and Faith Communities Capacity to Protect our Communities
This presentation provides a background on partnerships between faith-based and public health organizations, describes project activities and accomplishments, a...
Elephant in the Room: Why Religion and Spirituality Matter for Public Health
This chapter introduces the book, Why Religion and Spirituality Matter for Public Health: Evidence, Implications, and Resources. It explores how religion and sp...
Resources to Challenge Policing and Incarceration as Part of a COVID-19 Response
These documents provide information using a public health lens for families, organizers, and advocates who are demanding a response to this pandemic that uphold...
COVID-19, Climate Change and Stewarding a Thriving Natural World
In this Community Commons Original, our Project Manager, Sara Ivey, shares her perspective on COVID-19 pandemic, environmental justice, and the future of public...
Art as Public Health Communication During COVID-19
This article reflects on how art has been used throughout history to convey important public health information and how it can be utilized in the COVID-19 pande...
Community Health Workers: Leading Alongside Communities to Advance Equitable Well-Being
Community Health Workers partner with community members to advance health and well-being, elevating the wisdom of communities and the expertise of residents by ...
Communicating About Racial Equity and COVID-19: Connecting Data to Context
Without background knowledge or proper context, when people hear statistics about racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes, they are likely to attribute the caus...
TFAH’s Portal of COVID-19 Resources
This list of TFAH resources and documents focuses on the novel coronavirus outbreak and response. These materials cover what needs to be done to stop the spread...
Equitable Enforcement of Public Health Laws
To help communities and local governments strengthen their response to COVID-19 and advance health equity, ChangeLab Solutions is publishing a blog series about...
Addressing Racial Disparities In COVID-19 Outcomes
In this article, Dr. Wayne Riley, president of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and an NPR science correspondent answers questions about the racial di...
U.S. COVID Risk and Vaccine Tracker
This resource was created by a team of data scientists, engineers, and designers in partnership with epidemiologists, public health officials, and political lea...
COVID-19 Preparedness for the Cultural Sector
This webinar by the Mass Cultural Council, Boston Public Health Commission, and the Nonprofit Finance Fund provides strategies organizations can adopt to mitiga...
Coronavirus Law & Policy Resources
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is an extremely serious threat to public health and safety. Responding adequately and quickly to this pandemic can help save the live...
After Prison, Many People Living With HIV Go Without Treatment
This article looks at the gap between healthcare need and access for people living with HIV. When they walk out of prison, they leave with up to a month’s...
Assessing the Capacity of Social Determinants of Health Data to Augment Predictive Models Identifying Patients in Need of Wraparound Social Services
This report evaluates the capacity for clinical, socioeconomic, and public health data sources to predict the need for various social service referrals among pa...
Reliable Transportation
Reliable transportation is an indispensable vital condition that we all depend on for our health and well-being. Everyone needs transportation to move consisten...
Basic Needs for Health and Safety
Physical and mental well-being starts with access to fresh air and water, nutritious food, and the security of a stable home. People also need healthy relations...
Community Health Needs Assessments
Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) are part strategic plan/part grounding rod, and provide a systematic process for determining health needs in a...