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 implementation. It shares real-world experiences, stepwise guidance, useful details, and lessons learned by state and local health departments across the country that have already put them into practice.

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