This resource provides technical assistance, training, and resources for OT21-2103 grant recipients as part of the National Initiative to Address COVID-19
This resource highlights state-led health equity initiatives, focusing on the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) Initiative...
This resource provides information on current threats to public health policy and infrastructure, emphasizing advocacy for science-based, equitable approache...
This resource provides examples of letters to the editor that emphasize the importance of prevention in healthcare and community health initiatives.
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 ef...
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...
This resource provides guidance on writing effective letters to the editor to advocate for public health issues, focusing on how to craft concise, timely, an...
This resource provides tips on writing and submitting a brief letter to the editor to advocate for public health issues, raise awareness, and potentially inf...
This resource guides public health advocates in planning visits to Washington, D.C., or engaging with Congress, offering tools, meeting tips, and resources f...
This resource explores legal challenges to public health policies and offers strategies for prevention and defense. It aims to help public health professiona...
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...
This resource addresses the challenges facing public health, such as defunding and anti-science sentiment, and advocates for bold, policy-driven actions star...
This resource delves into Indiana’s increase in public health spending by 1,500 percent in 2023 amidst strained trust in governmental public health na...
This resource discusses the challenges faced by public health departments in the US in recruiting new employees, particularly focusing on barriers within civ...
This resource examines the impact of Public Health AmeriCorps, particularly the Minnesota Public Health Corps, in addressing workforce shortages and building...
This resource explores the potential of partnerships between public health organizations and community power-building organizations to address health dispari...
This resource examines how US courts have increasingly constrained public health legal powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly regarding mitigation...
This resource highlights efforts to strengthen relationships, combat structural racism, and promote equity and healing within the public health movement. It ...
This resource is about organizing public health workers to advocate for health, equity, and justice using their collective voice, evidence, expertise, and re...
This resource outlines a proposal for a 100-hour interactive online curriculum to address the gap in advocacy education within public health school curricula...
This resource discusses an initiative focused on showcasing innovations and successes in public health data collection and utilization across different state...
This video showcases diverse career opportunities in public health, including the private sector, government, climate justice, and oral health roles. It aims...
This resource focuses on building trust in public health communications by refining processes, seeking community input, and tailoring outreach efforts. It em...
This resource emphasizes the significance of reshaping the function of academic public health to tackle social determinants of health, enhance evidence-based...
This resource emphasizes the urgent need for transformative action to address racism, promote inclusivity, and advance health equity within academic public h...
This resource calls for a comprehensive rethinking of how public health education is delivered, advocating for a shift towards more inclusive, equitable, inn...
This resource aims to reshape how public health is taught and practiced, making it more effective, inclusive, and responsive to contemporary challenges....
This video discusses how historic investments during the pandemic have allowed for expanding and diversifying the public health workforce. It features insigh...
This resource discusses top public health priorities and legislative trends anticipated to impact public health in state legislative sessions.
This resource allows free access to the Big Interview online platform for Public Health AmeriCorps members, aiming to enhance their job interview skills and ...
This resource discusses the collaboration between public health and community development sectors to address health and racial equity through
This resource addresses the balance between public health measures and individual rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the constitutional and eth...
This podcast episode highlights developing and honing the host’s skills as a health educator and what the Certified Health Education Specialist has do...
This podcast episode highlights choosing to pursue an MPH over an MHA, Mentorship vs Sponsorship and their importance, why you need to be directionally corre...
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...
This podcast discusses diverse public health career paths to enhance understanding, skills, and networks for a broad audience.
In this webinar, conference attendees will continue to learn about poster design and creation. In this session, you will: Begin to craft your poster Incorpor...
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 curati...
This article portrays Dolly Parton as an iconic entertainer and a significant figure in health advocacy and philanthropy, particularly in rural and underserv...
Shot in the Arm explores vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of our modern pandemic.
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 capital...
This webpage emphasizes the benefits of becoming a member of APHA as an early career professional, providing access to a supportive community, professional d...
This resource is an online community platform that brings together public health professionals and enthusiasts. It offers a space for collaboration, networki...
This resource is a job site for public health professionals, offering a career guidance center for employers and job seekers.
This resource is a longitudinal dataset that captures laws addressing authority to respond to public health emergencies enacted between May 21, 2022, and Apr...
This resource is the homepage of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Conference. The 2023 NACCHO360 Annual Conferenc...
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...
This series of webinars provides communications training for the public health field. Speakers include state, local, and federal government officials, public...
This messaging guide outlines preemption of public health authority, defining preemption, identifying relevant legislation, and sharing messaging guides for ...
This resource provides a community-level overview of legislative limits to public health authority. ChangeLab Solutions introduces concepts of public health ...
The Trustworthiness Toolkit, created by the Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Health Justice, is a resource designed to help all organizations...
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 ...
This website outlines Racial Justice Competencies for Public Health Professionals developed by the Public Health Training Centers, in partnership with the Na...
This resource provides information and resources to encourage people to take actions that can help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The initiative emphasizes ...
This journal article presents a framework for addressing health outcome disparities that attribute them, not simply to differences in the behavioral and phys...
This guide was created to support public health communicators in creating messaging to advance health literacy, build trust in your organization as a source ...
This commentary explores the challenges around the sustainability of public health interventions, with particular attention to definitions and frameworks lik...
This resource offers insight into what may impact local policymakers and public health officials’ ability to strengthen their response to cu...
During this meeting, The Council on Linkages heard from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and three other Council on Linkages me...
This opinion piece discusses what Congress can do to ensure the U.S. healthcare system is equipped to prevent the next major pandemic. ...
This brief describes the actions and commitments of an ecosystem approach to public health. Distinctions between this ecosystem approach and the current focu...
This article covers new data released by the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law regarding the legislat...
Act for Public Health provides direct support to public health departments and others through consultation, training, legal technical assistance, research, a...
This Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report enumerates the essential, concrete, near-term steps that will return the CDC to a pathway o...
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 chan...
In this story, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the Oklahoma City County Health Department, acknowledges that the misinformation and distrust surrounding covid-1...
This edition of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice includes several articles discussing the needs and interests of the public health workfo...
This report outlines data equity principles that provide a framework for a shift in thinking about how equity-mindedness throughout the entire data life cycl...
This blog post discusses how local communities are shaping solutions to counter preemption laws and give everyone a fair and just opportunity for health.
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This set of ten interactive case studies aims to bring recommendations from Public Health Forward: Modernizing the U.S. Public Health System to implemen...
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...
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...
This report documents the key findings of the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS). The survey provides data on workforce demogr...
The Public Health 101 Series provides an introduction to public health and covers the sciences essential to public health practice. The fundamental scientifi...
This website summarizes Project REFOCUS, a project that provides a real-time crisis monitoring system and educational resources for public health practitione...
PublicHealthCareers.org promotes careers and jobs in U.S. state and territorial governmental public health agencies. Users can search for public health job o...
The Public Health Learning Network is an active consortium of public health educators, practitioners, and thought leaders that aims to advance public health ...
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 t...
This report outlines the functions that public health could fulfill, in collaboration with aging services, to address the challenges and opportunities of an ...
This report explores the ways that public health authority is being eroded and suggests ways to hold lawmakers accountable, illustrate to community memb...
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 i...
This resource for public health communicators explains how to use bridging statements effectively to build trust, acknowledge and answer tough questions...
This webpage provides talking points and answers to tough questions related to COVID-19. Topics covered include children and COVID-19, mask guidance, vaccine...
This report summarizes a feasibility study conducted with public health advocates and leaders from 45 organizations. The purpose of this report is to stimula...
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 hea...
The third in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together nearly 1,500 participants t...
The first in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together more than 1,200 participant...
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 staf...
This document describes a multi-year, billion-plus dollar effort to modernize core data and surveillance infrastructure across the federal and state pub...
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 p...
This report tracks federal, state, and local investment in public health and how underinvestment in public health programs impacted the COVID-19 response, ex...
This report discusses how investments in public health not only improve the health of society but also advance equity and foster economic and climate resilie...
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 equ...
This report outlines recommendations for building a national public health system that addresses ongoing and future health crises, advances equity, and earns...
This webpage provides an actionable framework that aims to embed equity and excellence throughout the work of the entire healthcare sector and help achieve o...
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 under...
This case study states people with disabilities must have equal access to COVID-19 information as those without disabilities. State and local jurisdictions a...
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 pro...
This webpage is part of the American Public Health Association’s campaign to remind people to periodically check their emergency supplies. It contains...
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 resp...
This website is part of the American Public Health Association’s initiative to help people prepare against disasters and hazards. It contains a compil...
This report shares stories, reflections, and insights from the Public Health Communication Collaborative’s national survey on public health during the...
This series of webinars designed for public health practitioners discusses racism and its impact on health and well-being.
This resource is a legislative prospectus around mental health and addictions.
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 ...
This webpage provides tools and template for public health departments in taking action to advance health equity.
This brief explores how the public health sector is uniquely positioned to assist at the intersection of public health, social needs, and social determinants...
This website provides evidence-based resources designed to support public health practitioners with communication skills and strategies to help build capacit...
This resource provides a description of key population health issues along the life course.
This toolkit is intended to help people go from community dialogue to mobilizing community change.
This resource is intended to foster public health and business collaboration. It provides resources that make the business case for health equity and racial ...
This series of webinars and discussion guides for public health and community practitioners is intended to facilitate conversations about racism and racial h...
This guide aims to assist public health practitioners in addressing disparities in chronic disease health outcomes. It includes lessons learned from practiti...
This webinar introduces the roles of various levels of government in public health policymaking and the ways that preemption is interfering with local democr...
This opinion piece discusses the results of a survey on the effectiveness of wastewater surveillance. It includes recommendations to strengthen and sustain w...
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 tre...
This blog explains the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) framework, an action-oriented framework that emphasizes addressin...
This story outlines the general failure of vaccine mandates in California, particularly in those that focus on children. The need for education, public infor...
This report describes decision-making amongst health agency leaders and their informatics staff as they selected and implemented digital resources to support...
This blog interviews current cohorts of the Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH) program about their experience and the benefits of joini...
This blog post introduces the use of isolation and quarantine powers to protect public health throughout history.
This resource details COVID-19-related laws and pending legislation, and broader enacted and proposed limitations on public health authority in all 50 states...
This brief recommends techniques for case investigators and contact tracers to communicate with contacts effectively.
This report examines epidemics that were prevented by early planning and intervention, including Yellow Fever, Ebola, Anthrax, and Monkeypox. It discusses wh...
This guidebook helps leaders to expand equity in the workplace by defining racial equity, including examples, providing talking points, and suggesting action...
This summit discusses future challenges in public health, specifically how law, governance, and finance are all intertwined and essential for strong public h...
This story highlights the importance of wastewater surveillance in public health infrastructure, citing its use nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic and d...
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...
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 o...
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explains the concept and importance of health equity.
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 als...
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explains the impacts of climate change on health and well-being.
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 hea...
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 ...
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and introduces the basics of public health and why it is important.
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.
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and discusses the concept of incorporating health in all policies–mak...
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores how environmental health affects health and well-being. It look...
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explains how social determinants of health affect health and well-being....
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and focuses on the issue of sexually-transmitted infections. With medical an...
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores the role of public health in cancer prevention, through early i...
This video is a part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores how public health addresses the growing issues of alcohol and d...
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 publ...
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...
This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores public health on the global scale. It highlights efforts on eradi...
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 di...
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 Sta...
This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and looks at how public health workers fulfill different roles throughout ...
This video series by APHA and Complexly Media examines the basics of important public health topics, including how chronic diseases, heart disease, racism, a...
Pathways to Population Health Equity (P2PHE) is a framework and set of tools designed to support public health leaders to strategically advance population he...
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...
Hosted by APHA, the Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response, and the COVID Collaborative, this conversation features a panel of experts on the valu...
This webinar explores issues related to the multi-sector workforce for population health improvement, including strengthening and supporting the workforce, a...
This interactive dashboard presents key demographic characteristics of trainees who received training through the TRAIN Learning Network as well as the commu...
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 w...
This article reveals the importance of having a robust public health infrastructure and discusses the shortfalls that the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed. It ...
This article features various emerging leaders in public health. It shares how these leadership teams are making a difference in their communities and helpin...
This article highlights key findings and implications of Trust for America’s Health’s report on how chronic underfunding of public health syste...
This webpage focuses on the efforts by the Skoll Foundation to strengthen health systems and prevent pandemics. It highlights examples of partnerships betwee...
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-s...
This webpage highlights stories about health departments around the United States that have been showing leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 preventio...
This webpage is intended to help support healthcare professionals with navigating the COVID-19 landscape. It provides healthcare guidance, information on how...
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-spo...
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 ...
This blog post features epidemiologists Gypsyamber D’Souza and David Dowdy, who answer questions about herd immunity and how it may still be possible ...
This article provides key points and explains the implications of the Global Burden of Disease Study published by The Lancet, which revealed how unprepared c...
This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of Google’s COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset, a ...
This article presents the findings of a study on COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among those who are already vaccinated, unvaccinated by willingness to accep...
This webpage presents how the Association of Public Health Laboratories is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This collection of blog posts, news, and resources provide information on how public health professionals are combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webpage contains a series of videos from OU Health and surrounding community members promoting COVID-19 vaccinations.
This blog post introduces and presents the key points of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s report on the critical investments needed to modernize America...
This podcast series features interviews with experts on current health topics and concerns.
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 po...
This webpage contains a searchable compilation of free imagery from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Image Library.
This series of courses from the Public Health Foundation provides frontline professionals with knowledge to better understand health equity and approaches th...
This webpage presents a collection of preemption resources on various issues, including sanctuary cities, equitable housing, minimum wage, and more. It is in...
This webpage highlights resources from ChangeLab Solutions to help inform public officials and community leaders about how preemption can affect their effort...
This website offers a variety of online trainings for community health workers and healthcare workers in the United States and around the world.
This webpage presents a collection of links to image galleries of various Health and Human Services agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and P...
This webpage contains an extensive list of galleries, databases and collections of public health images, videos, infographics, and more. While it is aimed at...
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...
This journal article focuses on how public and private actors are fighting back again anti-public health state laws via legal interventions, such as constitu...
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 in...
This webpage looks at the importance of and opportunities for engagement from the private sector in promoting health and wellbeing. It highlights the report,...
This webpage provides a compilation of evidence-based resources created and curated by the National Academies to inform COVID-19 response and recovery effort...
This paper shares highlights from the National Academies’ COVID-19 convening. It summarizes key themes, lessons on communications and community engage...
This searchable image library compiles photos and illustrations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is intended to support public health ...
This webpage contains resources and tools curated by the Build Healthy Places Network on navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic. It emphasizes cross-sector...
This post provides an overview of the ten state public health policies that the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) identified as t...
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.
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 eco...
This webpage provides resources, FAQs and infographics for Tribal public health departments and workers, community organizations, and Tribal community member...
This story provides insights into the experiences of community health workers in low-and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically t...
This fact sheet provides information regarding how to amplify the work of community health workers in the response to COVID-19.
This fact sheet provides insight into the best resources and biggest challenges in community healthcare amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
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...
This webpage offers information regarding CDC recommendations for mask-wearing early on in the pandemic. It emphasizes the need to prioritize certain masks f...
This webpage outlines the COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa (CAF-Africa), a collaboration of 30+ organizations for the purpose of supplying community health wo...
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 fac...
This piece outlines a national strategy to address health workforce needs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This fact sheet covers the implications of preemption for important public health priorities in areas such as affordable and fair housing; food and beverages...
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 ex...
This blog post introduces the Satcher Health Leadership Institute’s Health Equity Tracker, a data platform that tracks systemic health inequities.
This webpage provides access to a survey, created and circulated by the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and Emerson College, assessin...
This webpage provides information about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the Latinx community in California, social determinants of health influencin...
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 h...
This website provides methods that increase a community’s capacity to solve problems collaboratively and raise the voices of underserved communit...
In Inside Philanthropy, PHI president and CEO Mary Pittman describes working with California philanthropies to form Together Toward Health, to support COVID-...
This webpage outlines the Association for Public Health Laboratories’ COVID-19 response activities. It links critical resources, including COVID-19 la...
This Q&A discusses how to successfully present information to the public about COVID-19.
This resource list gathers factual and legal analysis to assist public health officials, advocates, and policymakers in responding to the complex issues invo...
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 fu...
This blog post summarizes legal challenges to state laws and executive orders that limit or prohibit issuing universal face mask protocols for schools based ...
This resource discusses the surge in litigation related to COVID-19 and the varying outcomes of legal challenges to mitigation measures. It mentions courts...
This website page outlines steps for stopping workforce violence in public health, and provides resources and factsheets.
This journal article discusses quarantines and travel bans implemented during COVID-19 in the United States.
This report summarizes survey findings of legal protections for public health workers, including criminal statutes punishing individuals who impede public he...
This article discusses variations among states and cities in implementing 3 NPIs: stay-at- home/shelter-in-place orders, gathering restrictions, and mask man...
This blog discusses legal challenges to stay-at-home orders, business and school closures, public gathering limits, face covering requirements, and public he...
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...
This resource provides detailed recommendations for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5-11 years old.
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This infographic outlines why preemption matters for public health. It provides the definition of preemption, as well as its implications for community-drive...
This report provides information on the surveillance of COVID-19 and the ethical and legal considerations necessary for its effective implementation. Details...
This time series dataset includes viral COVID-19 laboratory test [Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)] results from over 1,000 U.S. laboratories and testing loca...
This webpage provides a deep well of information for public health experts, business preparedness leaders, government officials, and the public on COVID-19.<...
This webpage strives to ensure that electronic health information is shared appropriately between healthcare and public health partners in the right format, ...
This webpage provides information and resources to help public health departments and laboratories investigate and report COVID-19 cases.
This webpage includes tools, resources, and best practices for addressing barriers to vaccine access. Methods for reaching underserved communities and addres...
This webpage provides an overview of preemption and highlights key resources connecting preemption, public health and equity.
This written story provides information on how state officials identified hotspots to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.
This website details how state and local officials can better serve groups with persistently low vaccine coverage� particularly low-income persons and...
This presentation explores the connections between preemption, public health, and equity. It also contains information regarding how preemption can hinder or...
This report provides an overview of the methods and strategy used to develop a COVID-19 surveillance system. The document provides public health expertise he...
This report assesses the United States’ policy response to the COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of health equity along racial and economic lines. ...
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 ...
This report from the Partnership for Public Service provides information on emergency preparedness and response in the public services. Recommendations are p...
This resource addresses the need for enhanced surveillance data during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of establishing a unified national surveillan...
This journal article provides technical information pertaining to the use of electronic health records in public health surveillance. It provides additional ...
This journal article provides a description of the Food and Drug Administration’s sentinel surveillance system and its use in tracking and monitoring ...
This journal article provides background information and advocates for the use of data on COVID-19 to draft appropriate policy serving mitigation efforts. Te...
This journal article advocates for an increase in the scale of COVID-19 surveillance data collected. It supports developing nationalized standards for diseas...
This journal article advocates for an increase in scale of COVID-19 surveillance. Data collected and analyzed will help support decision making for community...
This journal article provides information on a study evaluating how concerns relating to health data privacy affect the surveillance of COVID-19. This study ...
This journal article examines the components of an ideal surveillance system and assesses the effectiveness of COVID-19 surveillance in North Carolina and ar...
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 for...
This journal article addresses the use, promise, perils, and ethics of social media and Internet-based data collection for public health surveillance.
The purpose of this study was to develop dynamic metrics for public health surveillance that can inform worldwide COVID-19 prevention efforts.
The resource discusses the weaknesses in disease surveillance revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It mentions issues such as inadequate diagnostic capacity, i...
The report summarizes an approach for assessing negative and positive effects of preemption on health equity. It outlines a research and advocacy agenda for ...
This article proposes a new spatio-temporal spline model suited for COVID-19 surveillance that allows estimating and monitoring for small areas, as demonstra...
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...
This document summarizes current WHO guidance for public health surveillance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in humans caused by infection with severe...
This resource contains an overview of preemption, describes how it can affect health equity, and outlines generally how local authority is granted in differe...
This report highlights how wastewater surveillance can be an important and effective tool for early detection of SARS-CoV-2 especially among disadvantaged or...
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 ou...
This toolkit a set of practical tools and guidelines developed with and for public health implementers around the country to promote equitable and effective ...
TRAIN is a learning platform that provides access to a national catalog of trainings developed by government agencies, universities, professional association...
This webpage provides information on BEAM, an online certificate program in the field of financial management. It offers key statistics to the field of finan...
This toolkit is designed for public health officials, K-12 administrators, school district officials, and occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals ...
This article discusses rebuilding the U.S. Public Health system with a new generation of highly trained, diverse public health professionals. It calls on cur...
This article advocates for the strengthening of the public health workforce. It provides background and contextual information on the workforce itself, refer...
This article provides information on Biden’s public health workforce plan and the long term public health goals of the administration.
This article highlights five leadership skills that public health managers require and recommend training programs to ensure they have them.
This podcast talks about what the pandemic has taught about urgently needed investments in public health workforce.
This webpage provides links to editorials, commentaries, research reports, and practice commentaries that appeared in the March/April 2019 edition of the Jou...
This webpage advocates for a renewed approach to developing public health workforce in the US. Information is provided on an interview conducted by Partners ...
This infographic shows that creativity and innovation in public health can improve moral, retention, and productivity.
This infographic suggests that composition of numbers of workers, competency of workers, contextual environment and work environment are the factors affectin...
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 d...
This webpage provides continuing education material, such as courses, reports, and pamphlets, aimed at developing and strengthening the public health workfor...
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 sect...
This webpage provides information on the need for concerted recruitment and retention activities for public health workers in rural communities. Additional d...
This webpage describes public health workforce needs and steps required to prepare for the future.
This resource is intended for public health and labor authorities, businesses, employers, workers, and their representatives at the national, local, and work...
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 pro...
This website describes goals, guiding principles, and strategies for non-pharmaceutical community mitigation of COVID-19 transmission that can be adopted by ...
This webpage provides information on the training and education needs of the public health workforce in rural communities. Additional detail and context is a...
This webpage provides information on core competency tools needed by public health practitioners. It links to a tool allowing assessment and self-assessment ...
This webpage provides information for public health professionals regarding the mitigation of COVID-19 at the community level. Guidance for case investigatio...
This webpage provides information on a model of public health service provision which encompasses ten essential services. Links are provided to background an...
This website provides new resources, strategies and recommendations for strengthening the public health workforce.
This webpage provides information on the Public Health Learning Forum and its advocacy for the development of the public health workforce in the US. Informat...
This topic guide provides resources that identify different CHW models, demonstrate effective CHW programs, and outline the issues and challenges to the deve...
This report provides synthesized recommendations regarding the core components needed to build a modern and more effective U.S. public health system capable ...
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 repo...
This report provides information on the state of the public health workforce in the United States. It also conveys information from a needs assessment conduc...
This report discusses a modernized public health system that provides a framework of practical, prioritized, and bipartisan actions for policymakers and publ...
This report examines changes in levels of trust in the CDC between May and October 2020 in light of COVID-19.
This report was completed to better understand current weaknesses and challenges that are impacting the US public health system’s infrastructure and t...
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 g...
The document is intended for public health and labour authorities, businesses, employers, workers and their representatives at the national, local and workpl...
This webpage provides information on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s approach and action plan to public health workforce development. ...
This interactive data visualization provides information from the latest edition of PH WINS (conducted in 2017) in five sections: demographic data, retention...
This article analyzes the nature and component pieces of diversity within the public health workforce in the United States. It provides key statistical infor...
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 N...
This journal article provides information on succession planning in the United States in state health agencies.
This paper presents a new public health workforce taxonomy and explains the process in which it was developed.
This journal article highlights recent accomplishments and important areas for future attention to continue the path toward the public health workforce of th...
This journal article examines the role of public health scientific guidelines in the adjudication of legal challenges to mandatory orders adopted as part of ...
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 k...
This resource outlines the vision, mission, and goals of the National Consortium for Public Health Workforce Development. Some of these goals include advanci...
This guide describes strategic skills for the governmental public health workforce, recommendations for workforce development, and potential actions that can...
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 m...
The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Digital Library provides access to current evidence to support State Title V programs, community agencies, educators, stu...
This website provides learning material to foster competency-based learning and leadership in the field of maternal and child health. Various links are provi...
This webpage provides a set of resources and learning material for public health workforce professional development. The material provided aims at increasing...
This webpage provides instructions on how to report COVID-19 misinformation and mythbusters on COVID-19 topics themselves.
This article provides information on the connection between discrimination and public health outcomes. It also discusses the need for a more diverse public h...
This blog details what public health leaders need to know about the legal issues regarding quarantine and isolation during COVID-19.
This course was developed to provide practitioners, students and healthcare professionals a basis knowledge of public health law; it comprises nine lecture u...
This curriculum provides law training for state and local officials on how to balance public health authority against individual liberty using the U.S. const...
This map identifies structural differences of public health governance structures across states to understand the roles, responsibilities, and authorizes for...
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 ...
This toolkit addresses critical concepts regarding federal and state emergency declarations and the various response authorities and liability protections th...
This toolkit provides coronavirus disease press releases from 2019 regarding telehealth, clinical, technical, billing, coding, Medicaid, Medicare and open pa...
This toolkit provides overviews, guidelines, fact sheets, resource materials and updates on public health and information sharing.
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.
This presentation provides information and objective guidance on emerging issues of law and policy, core legal preparedness and response issues.
This resource outlines the legal and regulatory framework for emergency public health medical responses in Washington State, detailing the roles and authorit...
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 ...
This map and chart describes each state’s emergency orders and actions designed to safeguard residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A list of currently circulating misinformation curated from automated social media review and public health analysis. Misinformation is organized into three ...
This data bank is a growing portfolio of courses and other learning materials on public health law featuring trainings and educational resources for public h...
This article discusses the publics response to stay at home orders, mandatory business closures and mask mandates.
This article discusses legal limits on government actions during the health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This video, featuring national and state-based experts on the front line of chronic disease prevention, provides information on the ways in which s...
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...
This audio recording includes discussion about the state of our public health workforce with Jennifer Horney of the University of Delaware and Lisa Macon Har...
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 ...
This website provides a collection of resources and tools for community participation in public health efforts around the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual tools ar...
This webpage provides information on community engagement for public health professionals. It contextualizes community engagement within the framework of com...
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 depres...
This webinar introduces participants and viewers to methods and tools that can be used to increase resiliency in public health professionals. The discussion ...
This article discusses the mental health challenges facing public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides contextual understanding of the wo...
This webpage discusses organizational strategies that could be used to protect healthcare workers, prevent burnout and other mental health concerns. Seven ti...
This article discusses nurses’ approach to managing and mitigating the risks of COVID-19 within the school system. It emphasizes the unique positionin...
This webpage provides a description of steps and links to additional resources that may be used to conduct a community health improvement process.
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 agenc...
This webpage provides information on the release of protected health information for planning purposes in emergency situations and guidance about sharing pat...
This webpage examines the opioid overdose epidemic as a case study in compassion fatigue during public health epidemics.
This webpage offers instructions on how children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic diseases, disabilities, and mental health disorders can a...
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 ...
This webpage by the Department of Health and Human Services provides general information about the Secretary’s legal authorities during public health ...
This webpage summarizes findings from the policy brief prepared by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and co-authors the National Medical Association (...
This website provides the information for the series of three virtual public workshops exploring issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and disaster prepare...
This webinar highlights federal and state laws like HIPPA that affect public health’s ability to share COVID-19 information and data.
This webinar shares results from a national survey on criminal statutes that protect public health officials, analyzes burnout and employee turnover, and dis...
An introduction to administrative law, this webinar explains how public health agencies can implement and enforce their policies and programs at all governme...
This webinar explores the nature of recent laws and legislation in various states and explains principles that should guide future legislation to include fac...
Amidst dissatisfaction and anger at public health officials in response to COVID-19, this webinar organized with National Association of County and City Heal...
This webinar sponsored by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health features a panel of public health officials who address communication stra...
This video piece covers the value of fact-based health communication in the process of building trust in 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 comm...
This video discusses how systemic racism and health inequities contribute to COVID-19 rates among Black and Latinx people, how Tracing Health is addressing t...
This video from the Laura Flanders Show interviews three public health officials explore the roots of vaccine hesitancy, methods for rebuilding public trust,...
This article provides an overview of the doctrine of state police power, addresses recent limitations on public health police powers, then uses quarantine or...
This article provides a snapshot of the IFRC’s report on law and public health emergency preparedness and response.
This report explores the history of public health authority, including longstanding and recent efforts to undermine it. It provides arguments to counter prop...
This presentation reports key findings and data from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s surveys of trust in the U.S. Healthcare syst...
This policy brief summarizes how states have used Medicaid emergency authorities related to the COVID-19 PHE, providing potential lessons for future public h...
This journal article discusses the importance of making healthcare worker mental health a public health priority. It reviews the literature and also provides...
This document identifies guiding principles to inform the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s community health needs assessment provisions app...
This article reviews the constitutional basis of the police power, its historical use in public health, and the structural reasons why health departments pre...
This journal article discusses how implementing prevention and control practices that eliminate, reduce, and manage factors that cause or contribute to publi...
This journal article highlights how individual and organizational aspects of the COVID-19 response impacted mental health, as well as strengths, weaknesses, ...
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 et...
This journal article utilizes available research on governance and the political economy to make the case that governments in developing countries have an op...
This article explains the legality of public health emergency declarations including compulsory powers, health assessments, quarantine, and travel restrictio...
This article discusses the interdisciplinary functions of public health, the effects of legacy systems and policies on the sector’s response to COVID-...
This article describes the challenges public health and healthcare leaders face in building trust. It also includes strategies to combat issues like attachme...
This paper discusses how a model for developing and maintaining trust in public health officials during food safety incidents and scandals might be appl...
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 o...
This legal resource guide’s core objective is to produce a strategic assessment of legal or policy issues affecting the development of a regional mode...
This topic guide provides an overview of rural public health agencies, including FAQs, resources, funding and opportunities, events, and models and innovatio...
This publication explains common questions and answers about the role of state of local public health departments and boards of health in public health regul...
This factsheet defines public health law and explores sources of legal authority including constitutions, legislation, regulations, and case law.
This data bank is a compilation of the best practices and lessons learned that communities faced fighting COVID-19.
This newsletter provides noteworthy news and content of potential interest to readers on public health law.
This virtual resource center serves as a repository for state-focused resources pertaining to public health emergency preparedness policy.
This data bank contains a variety of resources on COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for vaccines, drugs, medical devices and more.
This repository stores general information, tools, plans and templates on COVID-19 legal resources.
This data bank tracks the exits of state and local public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic
This book was developed to help not-for-profit health care organizations strengthen their assessment and community benefit planning processes.
This chapter of The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century explores the state of governmental public health infrastructure, including the r...
This book outlines a systems approach for public health, discussing the need for a population-based framework for practice, research, policy, and community e...
This blog discusses the various elements that contribute to frontline worker burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 discus...
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 bac...
This article discusses how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is now committing $100 million to address health care worker shortages through t...
This library provides resources and trainings to help public health workers build resilience.
This story describes how burnout is affecting health care workers which in turn affects patient care. It explores solutions and implementing staff ideas for ...
This article explains the challenges facing public health departments as it pertains to burnout, harassment, and pay cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The article highlights the eight principles that is believed to increase trust, acceptance and demand for vaccination
This blog outlines the implications of the Biden Administration’s continuation of the public health emergency (PHE) declaration and what it means for ...
This article discusses the barriers to modernization of the public health system posed by existing regulatory structures and suggests priority areas for util...
This story gives examples of recent legislation aimed at weakening public health authority and discusses rising rates of burnout among officials.
This blog post, which is accompanied by a webinar, defines administrative law, explains where public health agencies sit within the U.S. governmental system,...
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 Wash...
This article explores how new states laws passed during COVID-19 curtail health agencies’ emergency powers to invoke restrictions like quarantines and...
This article explores the relationship between trust, basic psychological needs, and the importance of promoting mental health during COVID-19.
This interview explores six key findings from a report from the Center for Health Security’s vaccine working group alongside top concerns and barriers...