Public Health

This webpage provides tools and template for public health departments in taking action to advance health equity.

This issue brief describes the role of public health in addressing social needs and social determinants.

This website provides tools and strategies for public health to communicate with other sectors.

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...

This series of webinars and discussion guides for public health and community practitioners is intended to facilitate conversations about racism and racial heal...

This guide aims to assist public health practitioners address disparities in chronic disease health outcomes. It includes lessons learned from practitioners of ...

This opinion piece discusses results of a survey on the effectiveness of wastewater surveillance. It includes recommendations to strengthen and sustain wastewat...

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...

This blog explains the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) framework, an action-oriented framework that emphasizes addressing r...

This story outlines the general failure of vaccine mandates in California, particularly in those that focus on children. The need for education, public informat...

This blog interviews current cohorts of the DELPH program about their experience and the benefits of joining the program. DELPH stands for Diverse Executives Le...

This lists enacted legislation and pending bills that limit public health power.

This summit hopes to address future challenges in public health, specifically discussing how law, governance, and finance are all intertwined and essential for ...

This highlights the importance of wastewater surveillance in public health infrastructure, citing its use nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, and discussin...

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...

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 also phys...

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 health ex...

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...

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 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–making dec...

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...

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 and tech...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and explores public health on the global scale. It highlights efforts on eradicating...

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...

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...

This video is part of the series, “That’s Public Health,” and looks at how public health workers fulfill different roles throughout socie...

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 (P2PHE) is a framework and set of tools designed to support public health leaders to strategically advance population healt...

This webinar explores issues related to the multi-sector workforce for population health improvement, including strengthening and supporting the workforce, addr...

This interactive dashboard presents key demographic characteristics of trainees who received training through the TRAIN Learning Network as well as the communit...

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...

This article highlights key findings and implications of Trust for America’s Health’s report on how chronic underfunding of public health systems ex...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 searchable image library compiles photos and illustrations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is intended to support public health mes...

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 ...

This fact sheet provides information regarding how to amplify the work of community health workers in the response to COVID-19.

This article provides information on the importance of emerging public health leaders in response to COVID-19.

This resource list gathers factual and legal analysis to assist public health officials, advocates, and policymakers in responding to the complex issues involve...

This article presents five core principles for integrated disease surveillance for future real-time, accurate disease surveillance to aid public health decision...

This webpage provides a search tool for public health courses and other learning material. It also allows the learner to nominate high yield material which may ...

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...

This article advocates for the strengthening of the public health workforce. It provides background and contextual information on the workforce itself, referenc...

This article highlights five leadership skills that public health managers require and recommend training programs to ensure that 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 Journa...

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 ...

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 affecting t...

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...

This webpage provides continuing education material, such as courses, reports, and pamphlets, aimed at developing and strengthening the public health workforce.

This webpage provides information on the need for concerted recruitment and retention activities for public health workers in rural communities. Additional deta...

This webpage describes public health workforce needs and steps required to prepare for the future.

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...

This webpage provides information on core competency tools needed by public health practitioners. It links to a tool allowing assessment and self-assessment of ...

This webpage provides information on a model of public health service provision which encompasses ten essential services. Links are provided to background and h...

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. Information...

This topic guide provides resources that identify different CHW models, demonstrate effective CHW programs, and outline the issues and challenges to the develop...

This report provides synthesized recommendations regarding the core components needed to build a modern and more effective U.S. public health system capable of ...

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 ...

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...

This report discusses a modernized public health system that provides a framework of practical, prioritized, and bipartisan actions for policymakers and public ...

This report was completed to better understand current weaknesses and challenges that are impacting the US public health system’s infrastructure and to id...

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...

This webpage provides information on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s approach and action plan to public health workforce development. Data...

This interactive data visualization provides information from the latest edition of PH WINS (conducted in 2017) in five sections: demographic data, retention tr...

This article analyzes the nature and component pieces of diversity within the public health workforce in the United States. It provides key statistical informat...

This journal article highlights recent accomplishments and important areas for future attention to continue the path toward the public health workforce of the 2...

This resource outlines the vision, mission, and goals of the National Consortium for Public Health Workforce Development. Some of these goals include advancing ...

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...

This webpage provides a set of resources and learning material for public health workforce professional development. The material provided aims at increasing co...

This article provides information on the connection between discrimination and public health outcomes. It also discusses the need for a more diverse public heal...

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 Harris...

This journal article highlights how individual and organizational aspects of the COVID-19 response impacted mental health, as well as strengths, weaknesses, opp...

This article discusses how many workers feel stonewalled by elected officials and scapegoated for the high US COVID-19 death toll

This library provides resources and trainings to help public health workers build resilience.

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...

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 ...

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...

This article examines vaccine hesitancy, with a focus on COVID-19 vaccines. It discusses concerns and conspiracy theories driving COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, th...

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...

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...