Schools, Child Care and Colleges

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...

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.

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...

Lesson Plans | Vaccinate Your Family

This webpage provides take-home handouts and take-home activities regarding the importance of vaccination for use in preschools and daycares.

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...

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...

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

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

COVID-19 School Testing Toolkit

This blog post introduces the CDC’s COVID-19 School Testing Toolkit, which includes a suite of free resources intended to help support schools that are im...

Children, Schools and Vaccines: Communicating to Parents

This document provides suggestions for communicating effectively with parents on returning to in-person learning and student vaccinations.

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 ...

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....

Standardized COVID-19 K-12 School Surveillance Guidance For Classification Of Clusters and Outbreaks

This resource provides guidance and regulatory information on the surveillance of COVID-19 outbreaks in K-12 schools. It also provides technical guidance on cla...

COVID-19 Outbreaks: State Reporting By Setting

This report identifies states that have defined and are reporting setting-specific COVID-19 outbreaks as of November 2020 and highlights promising examples that...

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...

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 ...

Schools, Child Care, and Colleges

This webpage provides strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain safe operations in schools, child care programs, and institutions of higher educa...

Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention in K-12 Schools

This guidance emphasizes implementing layered prevention strategies to protect students, teachers, staff, visitors, and other members of their households and su...

Country and Technical Guidance – Coronavirus Disease

This webpage outlines technical guidance around coronavirus. The resources are grouped by topics including critical preparedness, surveillance, clinical care, n...

Household COVID-19 Risk and In-person Schooling

This report discusses the role of schools in transmission and the value of school closure.

Guidance for K-12 Education on Responding to COVID-19

This report provides guidance on the health-related issues for safely reopening schools and the practices that should be implemented in order to maintain and mo...

Science Brief: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 Schools and Early Care and Education Programs – Updated

This science brief provides information on how to provide safe, supportive learning environments for children and adolescents and how to employ teachers and oth...

Model-Driven Mitigation Measures for Reopening Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This research article provides model-driven and data-supported mitigation strategies for reopening schools that closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Layered Mitigation Strategies for Safe School Reopening

This fact sheet provides evidence that schools can safely open for in-person learning during the pandemic provided they use layered mitigation measures.

Current Emergencies

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

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...

Closing COVID-19 Equity Gaps In Schools

This articles discusses COVID-19 equity gaps and next steps for educational equity.

Testing for COVID-19 in Schools

This toolkit provides information about COVID-19 testing in schools and provides materials that school administrators can use to teach parents, students, and st...

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.

Accessibility Ideas for Distance Learning During COVID-19

This blog post provides advice on how to use accessibility features to support student learning.

6 Ways Schools Can Promote COVID-19 Vaccination

This document presents six recommendations for schools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations. It also includes links to resources created or curated by the CDC.

Infection Prevention and Control in Schools

This webpage contains a collection of resources from the Infection Prevention and Control in Schools task force. It includes a guide for school-based infection ...

COVID-19: Community, Work and School

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

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

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

Resources for Schools and Families Impacted by COVID-19

This webpage provides a curated list of resources for school stakeholders as in-person learning resumes.

Coronavirus and COVID-19

This webpage provides information on COVID-19 and COVID-19 related services that Kaiser Permanente provides for members.

Webinar: COVID-19 and Return to In-Person Learning: Communicating with Constituents

This webinar features a panel of experts who provide recommendations on effective messaging to communicate with families, teachers, and school officials to prep...

Addressing Student and Staff Health with COVID Relief Funding

This guide is intended for school districts and highlights steps that they can take to make data-informed decisions on how to use COVID-19 relief funds to suppo...

Planning for the Next Normal at School Playbook

This guide is intended for school and district leaders to support health needs of school communities. It contains evidence-based guidance, strategies, and opera...

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...

Supporting Student Success through School Health Policy

This webinar focuses on how to leverage school health policies to support children’s health and learning during COVID-19, including access to healthy meal...

Coronavirus Response – Thriving Schools

This webpage provides a compilation of resources to support school leaders and communities in navigating the coronavirus, and the resulting effects of the pande...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Mental Health

This resource reports data on the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of high school and higher education students from the April 2020 Active Minds Survey.

The K-12 National Testing Action Program: Connecting Schools with the Nation’s Leading Testing Companies to Safely Reopen

This slide deck synthesizes findings from school leaders, parents, advocates, labs and manufacturers who have come together to build, pilot, and run a variety o...