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Old Enough to Make a Difference: Be Inspired By Real-life Children Building a More Sustainable Future
This children’s book highlights real-life young changemakers taking action for a more sustainable future.
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promises in Rural America
This book is a memoir and investigative account exploring the divergent paths of two childhood friends, revealing the systemic forces behind the declining li...
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
This book is a collection of essays, interviews, and speeches that connect global struggles against state violence, oppression, and incarceration, emphasizin...
The Ministry For the Future
This book explores humanity’s fight against climate change through political, economic, and technological solutions, told through the lens of a global...
Sick Kids in Love
This book is about two teens with chronic illnesses who find understanding, connection, and the possibility of love despite their challenges.
Living With Osteoarthritis
This resource provides education, resources, and strategies to help individuals manage, prevent, and stay active with osteoarthritis through treatment, lifes...
Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health and Housing Equity
This resource examines the historical and ongoing impacts of structural racism on housing inequity, the resulting wealth gap, and its implications for...
An Exploration of Individual and Collective Practices For Community-Based Leaders in Times of Transition
This resource provides practical strategies and reflective exercises for navigating transitions, fostering organizational change, and promoting racial equity...
Addressing Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as a Health Equity Imperative: A Primer for Public Health Professionals
This resource explores the health disparities and inequities faced by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), examining social...
The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE): Our Work
This resource provides resources and tools to address key environmental health issues such as climate change, water and transportation impacts, energy use, a...
Turning the Wheels: To Build Biking Infrastructure and Access
This resource highlights the collaborative efforts between developers and biking infrastructure consultants to integrate active transportation solutions into...
Building Understanding of Environmental Health
This resource provides framing research, recommendations, and communication samples to enhance public understanding and support for environmental health issu...
Getting Vaccinated: Vaccines for Adults
This resource provides information on recommended vaccines for adults, highlighting their importance in protecting individual and community health, and inclu...
For Teens: Vaccine Basics
This resource provides an overview of the importance of vaccines, recommended immunizations, and their role in preventing infectious diseases.
Vaccines 101: Misconceptions About Vaccines
This resource debunks common misconceptions about vaccines by providing evidence-based explanations on their safety, effectiveness, and necessity.
History of Vaccines: Vaccines 101
This resource provides an overview of vaccines, including how they work, how they are made, ethical considerations, common misconceptions, the future of immu...
A History of Employer Vaccination Mandates
This resource explores the historical development of employer vaccination mandates in the U.S., tracing their origins from the 1880s through the mid-20th cen...
Communicating About Public Health: A Toolkit for Public Health Professionals
This resource provides research-tested strategies, talking points, and best practices to help public health professionals effectively communicate the value a...
Disease Elimination and Eradication
This resource explains the role of vaccines in controlling, eliminating, and eradicating infectious diseases, highlighting their impact on public health and...
The State of State-Level Public Health Advocacy: Findings and Implications From a 50-state Scan
This resource provides a 50-state analysis of public health...
Raising the Legal Tobacco Purchase and Use Age to 21 in Utah
Utah legislators were urged by coalitions and associations to consider raising the legal age of tobacco purchases from 19 to 21. During the 2015 legislative...
Proposed Opioid Pre-Authorization Policy in Utah
Public health graduate students at Brigham Young University conducted an HIA to analyze the potential health effects of a bill proposed in the Utah Legislatu...
Treatment Alternatives to Prison
WISDOM, in collaboration with Human Impact Partners, conducted an HIA to project the potential health impacts of scaling up Treatment Alternative Diversion (...
Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions
This resource provides an overview of the status of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), tracking which states have adopted or not adopted...
A Home for All: Healthy and Affordable Housing Policy Recommendations for Thriving Communities
This report provides a framework for designing inclusive and holistic policies that center community voice and sets forth innovative policy recommendations t...
Good Food Impact Hub
This resource highlights how cities can leverage institutional food purchasing to drive climate, health, and equity solutions by adopting policies that suppo...
Housing Affordability and Quality: A Community Driver of Health
This resource explores the relationship between housing affordability, quality, and health, highlighting how unstable or substandard housing conditions can n...
Addressing America’s Affordable Housing Crisis
This resource discusses the severe shortage of affordable rental homes in the U.S., particularly for extremely low-income renters.
Chart Book: Housing and Health Problems are Intertwined. So are Their Solutions.
This resource discusses the interconnectedness of housing and health, emphasizing the need for coordinated policies that address both to improve well-being,...
Equitable Policy Processes for Multisector Health Efforts
This resource is intended to support stakeholders who may be new to public policy and are interested in building capacity for equitable and sustainable polic...
In Support of Maximum Diversion of Persons With Serious Mental Illness From the Criminal Justice System
This resource outlines a policy supporting the diversion of individuals with serious mental illness or substance use conditions from the criminal justice sys...
Localized Anti-Displacement Policies
This resource focuses on localized anti-displacement policies aimed at combating gentrification and ensuring that investments in disadvantaged communities st...
NIJ’s Multisite Evaluation of Prosecutor-Led Diversion Programs: Strategies, Impacts, and Cost-Effectiveness
This resource examines prosecutor-led diversion programs’ strategies, impacts, and cost-effectiveness through a multisite evaluation.
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This resource examines the impact of eviction moratoria and renter-support measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Effect of Youth Diversion Programs on Recidivism
This resource examines the effectiveness of youth diversion programs in reducing recidivism compared to traditional justice system processing.
Diversion Programs Are a Smart, Sustainable Investment in Public Safety
This resource highlights the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of diversion programs.
Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Government
Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments was created by the Public Health Institute, the California Department of Public Health, and t...
Diversion Programs Are Cheaper and More Effective Than Incarceration. Prosecutors Should Embrace Them.
This resource discusses how diversion programs are more cost-effective than incarceration.
Medicaid Expansion: Frequently Asked Questions
This resource provides an overview of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
National School Lunch Act
This resource provides a legislative history and analysis of the National School Lunch Act of 1946. It examines its development, debates, amendments, and imp...
Triple Aim and Population Health
This resource focuses on the IHI Triple Aim framework for optimizing health by improving patient care,...
Community-Based Doulas and Midwives
This resource highlights the critical role of community-based doulas and midwives.
How to Build Cross-Sector Partnerships That Improve Public Health
This resource provides guidance on effective communication strategies for building cross-sector partnerships to enhance public health outcomes
Together Toward Health: Amplifying Impact Through Collaborative Partnerships
This resource explores how the Public Health Institute Together Toward Health initiative built partnerships with over 500 community-based organizations to in...
Public Health Accreditation Board: Transformation Guide
This resource is about guiding public health systems through a transformative process to enhance equity, capacity, and community well-being by adopting innov...
School Health: Aligning Frameworks
This resource provides a comprehensive guide to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model, emphasizing the integration of education and hea...
Exploring Equity in Multi-sector Community Health Partnerships
This roundtable workshop proceedings from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement explo...
Supporting Communities and Local Public Health Departments During COVID-19 and Beyond: A Roadmap for Equitable and Transformative Change
This resource outlines policy, program, and resource recommendations to help local public health departments and communities better prepare for and respond t...
Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power-Building Organizations
This resource provides guidance to health departments on how to partner with Community Power-Building Organizations (CPBOs) to promote health equity. It incl...
NACCHO: Health in All Policies
This resource provides information and resources on Health in All Policies (HiAP), emphasizing its implementation support for local health departments, colla...
Multisector Community Health Partnerships: Potential Opportunities and Challenges
This brief summarizes the proceedings of a recent NASEM workshop where participants explored multisector community health partnerships that aim to address in...
Reimagining Public Health Advocacy
This resource explores the potential for stronger partnerships between public health NGOs and community power-building organizations (CPBOs) to address healt...
Farmworkers
Farmworkers are essential workers in our food system who perform the labor-intensive tasks of planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops and tending to live...
A Campaign for Dignity and Respect
This resource is about how Step Up Louisiana and the New Orleans Health Department utilized an inside-outside strategy to successfully advocate for a Workers...
The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership
The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership charts a pathway to strengthen and transform our local democracies. Leaders across multiple sectors, such a...
Human Impact Partners: Health Equity Guide
The Health Equity Guide is a comprehensive resource designed to help public health departments and practitioners plan and implement health equity and racial...
Big Cities Health Coalition Epidemiology Capacity Assessment, 2024
This resource provides an in-depth analysis of the epidemiology capacity in health departments, covering staffing, funding, methods, findings, and recommenda...
Achieving Environmental Health Equity: The Need and Opportunities for Public Health Action
This resource highlights the need for public health organizations to address environmental health disparities by dismantling systemic inequalities, particula...
Enhancing Data Access to Improve American Indian and Alaska Native Health: A Framework for State and Local Public Health Officials
This resource is a policy brief that outlines strategies for improving American Indian and Alaska Native health through better access to health data, focusin...
A Recipe for Meaningful Community Engagement
This resource provides guidance on how to move beyond transactional relationships and foster meaningful, long-term community engagement, emphasizing racial e...
Supporting Equitable Community Engagement
This resource guides state health departments on supporting equitable and inclusive community engagement to address social determinants of health and reduce...
Ready to Advance Health Equity
This resource focuses on enhancing the capacity of state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments to use law and policy to address social determina...
The BUILD Health Challenge Workbook
This workbook is designed to help communities looking to employ cross-sector and community-driven approaches that ensure everyone can reach their optimal lev...
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE): 2024–2026 Strategic Impact Plan
This resource outlines CSTE’s 2024-2026 Strategic Impact Plan, focusing on advancing applied epidemiology to promote public health through innovation,...
Applied Epidemiology Competencies Evaluation
This resource provides evaluation tools for assessing knowledge, skills, and abilities across the seven domains of the Applied Epidemiology Competencies (AEC...
COVID-19 Health Equity Technical Assistance
This resource provides technical assistance, training, and resources for OT21-2103 grant recipients as part of the National Initiative to Address COVID-19 He...
Centering the Community’s Voice in State-Led Health Equity Initiatives
This resource highlights state-led health equity initiatives, focusing on the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) Initiative...
American Public Health Association: Public Health Under Threat
This resource provides information on current threats to public health policy and infrastructure, emphasizing advocacy for science-based, equitable approache...
These Times Ask More of Us
This resource explores practices for navigating the current “time between worlds,” where old systems collapse and new ones emerge. It emphasize...
Thinking in Systems
This resource introduces “Thinking in Systems” (TiS) as a framework to address complex public health problems by analyzing dynamic patterns, sy...
Health Equity Policy Framework
This resource guides efforts to advance health equity and dismantle structural racism in Massachusetts, offering a roadmap for policy development, community...
Preventing Spread of Infections in K-12 Schools
This resource guides K-12 schools on preventing and controlling the spread of infectious diseases through everyday actions, planning for outbreaks, and ensur...
Leading a Community Dialogue on Building a Healthy Community
This resource discusses how to facilitate a community discussion to engage and bring together the many voices of a community.
Advocating For Change
This resource is designed to assist individuals and organizations in planning effective advocacy efforts while addressing potential opposition.
Principles of Advocacy
This resource serves as a comprehensive guide for planning effective advocacy campaigns.
Identifying Community Assets and Resources
This resource provides a comprehensive guide for assessing local needs and resources through various methods, such as public forums, surveys, and focus group...
Community Tool Box: Influencing Policy Development
This toolkit guides users with influencing policy development in organizations and communities by providing an outline of key tasks, examples, and links to m...
Conducting Public Forums and Listening Sessions
This resource outlines how to engage residents in meaningful dialogue about local issues.
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-1...
Conducting a Petition Drive
This resource provides a comprehensive guide on how to effectively organize and implement a petition drive to influence decision-makers regarding specific re...
Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
This resource offers instructions for forming a collaboration between various organizations to achieve a shared objective.
Conducting a Workshop
This resource guides how to effectively conduct a workshop. It outlines the key features of workshops, reasons for conducting them, and detailed steps for pl...
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 ef...
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...
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, an...
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 inf...
How Do Recent Changes to Public Health Authority Affect Prevention of Infectious Diseases?
This resource is on the legal framework and recent developments affecting public health authorities, particularly in preventing HIV, viral hepatitis, STDs, a...
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 f...
Public Health Policy Information Sheet
This information sheet explores key policies related to critical public health issues, including mental health, environmental health and climate change, infe...
The Public Health Communicators Guide to Misinformation
This resource guides public health communicators to identify and address misinformation, offering strategies for responding with clear, accurate, and accessi...
Pandemic Recovery Metrics to Drive Equity (PanREMEDY): Guidelines for State and Local Leaders in Anticipation of Future Catastrophic Outbreaks
This resource provides guidelines for state and local leaders to prepare for future catastrophic outbreaks, focusing on equitable recovery through strategic...
City Residents Support Public Health Approaches to Drug Use, Homelessness: A Messaging Playbook
This resource outlines public support for addressing drug use and homelessness through harm reduction, drug treatment, and affordable housing, based on polli...
The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System 2024: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations
This resource highlights the long-term consequences of insufficient U.S. public health system funding.
Commercial Determinants of Health
The Lancet series examines how commercial practices, including marketing,...
No-Cost COVID-19 Testing
This tool allows users to search for no-cost COVID-19 testing locations across the United States, particularly for uninsured individuals. The resource is par...
The COVID-19 Tracking Project
This resource details the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer initiative that collected and published comprehensive COVID-19 data across the U.S. to fill gap...
Heat Kills Thousands in the U.S. Every Year. Why Are the Deaths So Hard to Track?
This article discusses the rising number of deaths linked to extreme heat in the U.S., highlighting the vulnerability of certain populations and the challeng...
To Advance a National Health and Equity Infrastructure, Measure Drivers of Health
This resource advocates incorporating Drivers of Health (DOH) such as food insecurity and housing instability into the health care system’s regulatory...
Rural Resilience: How a Small Rural Health System Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic
This resource highlights Chapmanville’s community response to COVID-19, focusing on the challenges rural healthcare workers face, the efforts to manag...
American Public Health Association: Public Health Workforce
This resource outlines the importance and challenges of the public health workforce, emphasizing the need for additional funding, diversity, and training to...
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 professiona...
Advocating COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in American Communities of Color: A Health Communicator’s Appreciation of “Made to Save”
This resource discusses the efforts and challenges of the “Made to Save” project in promoting Covid-19 vaccination among underserved communitie...
Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States
This study analyzed COVID-19 vaccine allocation plans and evaluated whether jurisdictions adopted proposals to reduce inequity using disadvantage indices and...
Race, Racism, Civil Rights Law, and the Equitable Allocation of Scarce COVID-19 Treatments
This resource explores the issue of using race in COVID-19 treatment allocation guidelines, advocating for equitable distribution while addressing systemic i...
Activating Place-Based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives
This resource provides guidance for health systems and universities on forming place-based partnerships to promote equitable economic development and address...
NEJM Article: Supporting Climate, Health, and Equity Under the Farm Bill
This resource discusses how the Farm Bill can promote better health and climate outcomes by supporting the production of healthy foods, sustainable agricultu...
Taking Action for Trans Rights: Our Favorite Tools, Resources, and Data
Trans is an inclusive term, which describes gender expansive people. In general, Transgender and Nonbinary (TGNB) People are individuals whose gender identit...
The Role Youth and Young Adults Play in Mental Health Legislation
This resource discusses Jake’s Law, legislation enacted by the Arizona State Legislature in 2020 to enhance access to behavioral health services, part...
Empowering Youth Advocates in North Carolina
This resource highlights Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!), a North Carolina-based nonprofit that empowers high school youth and adult allies to address commu...
Beyond Allyship: Leveraging Activism Tools to Improve Transgender and Nonbinary Health
Each month, dozens of new thinkpieces on Trans allyship cross my desk— 7 Steps to Be A Better Trans Ally in 2022 Allyship Means Showing Trans People W...
LGBTQ+ People
LGBTQ+ people are individuals whose gender, sexual orientation, and/or romantic orientation is different from the heterosexual, cisgender norms most commonly...
Reexamining SNAP Policies for College Students
This is the third in a series regarding food insecurity among the student population. Read Food Insecurity on College Campuses and Innovative...
SNAP Supports Health Equity: Recommendations For the Reauthorization of the Farm Bill
This resource discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), highlighting its role in providing healthy food access to participants, includi...
Transgender and Nonbinary People
Transgender and Nonbinary (TGNB) people are individuals whose gender identity and expression are different from the cisgender norms most commonly-accepted in...
Farmworkers
Farmworkers play an essential role in a healthy, functioning food system. Farmworkers primarily contribute to the safe, efficient, and stable production and...
2023 Farm Bill: Advancing Public Health at the Intersection of Food, Environment, and Economic Policy
Every five years, Congress passes the “Farm Bill,” a large piece of packaged legislation that was originally designed to support the U.S. food...
Food Access
Everyone deserves access to healthy and affordable foods. Food access refers to a person’s ability to obtain healthy foods, shaped by availability and...
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...
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 star...
Community Health Workers Can Bridge The Gap
This resource advocates for recognizing and investing in community health workers (CHWs) as a vital resource within the US public health system, especially i...
Spirituality as a Determinant of Health: Emerging Policies, Practices, and Systems
This resource explores the integration of spirituality as a social determinant of health within public health practice in the United States. It assesses curr...
Reimagining Public Health: Mapping A Path Forward
This resource discusses the need for transforming the US public health system post-COVID-19, emphasizing accountability, politicization, climate change, equi...
Climate and Health Youth Education Toolkit
The resource provides a lesson plan and supporting materials for public health professionals to give guest lectures on climate, health, and equity to student...
Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities and Orienting Policy, Practice, and Research in Rural America
This resource challenges the narrative that public health has failed the US, arguing that the country has failed public health, particularly in rural re...
The United States Needs a Better Testing Playbook For Future Public Health Emergencies
This resource discusses the creation of the Testing Playbook for Biological Emergencies, a comprehensive national guide designed to help US officials rapidly...
Climate Change and Mental Health Interventions Workshop
This webinar includes a discussion of how to design interventions to build resilience and strengthen mental health and wellness in the face of the climate cr...
The Community as a Full Partner: A New Model For Public Health
This resource discusses the need to strengthen the US public health system through greater community engagement and leadership, as highlighted by the COVID-1...
Climate Communications Bootcamp
This course provides insights from climate and health experts regarding delivering key climate and health messaging and how to communicate and engage with po...
Transforming Public Health Practice With Generative Artificial Intelligence
This resource discusses how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are set to transform public health practice, focusing on its use in enhancing commun...
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 na...
Not Only How Much But How: The Importance of Diversifying Funding Streams in a Reimagined Public Health System
This resource examines revenue diversification in public health departments before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights patterns in revenue source...
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 civ...
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...
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 dispari...
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...
Building Trust-Based Community Partnerships For Public Health Professionals
This tool focuses on fostering trust-based partnerships between public health professionals and communities burdened by climate and environmental hazards, ai...
Racism as a Public Health Crisis: From Declaration to Action
This interactive mapping tool allows users to see what different localities across the country have been doing to advance racial and health equity since they...
Responsibilities In A Public Health Emergency
This chart outlines the authorities of various departments/federal branches/agencies during public health emergencies to clarify the “chain of command...
Racial Equity and Public Health
This fact sheet defines racial equity and discusses the public health impacts of racism. It also provides methods for reducing the burden of racism and achie...
Why Proposed Legislation to End Judicial Deference to Executive Agencies Matters For Public Health
This resource discusses the practice of judicial deference to agencies’ interpretations of statutes, particularly focusing on its importance for publi...
Strengthening Public Health Authority to Contain and Prevent Communicable Disease
This resource provides an overview of the evolving legal and regulatory framework for public health authority in the U.S., emphasizing the need for strengthe...
LawAtlas
This tool is an interactive legal data on public health topics through maps, tables, and detailed datasets. It supports research and education with tools for...
Community Tool Box: Advocating for Change
This toolkit supports users planning for advocacy efforts and responding to opposition by providing an outline of key tasks, examples, and links to more deta...
Whitmer Vetoes Bill Aimed at Limiting Health Department’s Emergency Powers
This resource discusses Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s veto of Senate Bill 1, which aimed to limit the state health department’s emergenc...
Toward an Empowered and Trusted Public Health System: Learnings From COVID-19 Era Bright Spots Policies
This resource discusses positive policy developments during the COVID-19 pandemic that have helped public health departments adapt and better serve their com...
Edwards Rejects Bill To Give Lawmakers More Emergency Power
This resource reports that Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed a bill that would have given lawmakers more authority over his emergency COVID-19 decis...
Decriminalizing Abortion: How Our Movements Can Organize in Solidarity With Each Other
This resource discusses the expanding surveillance and criminalization of mutual aid, self-managed care, and bodily autonomy, emphasizing the growing attempt...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Recommendations To Support Health and Equity in the Reauthorization of the Farm Bill
This resource discusses the importance of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in providing food security for families. It highlights key fin...
5 Ways Health Departments Can Help Ensure Healthy Voting: 2022
This resource discusses the intersection between voting and public health, highlighting how voting impacts the social determinants of health and emphasizing...
Healthy Equity Now: A Federal Policy Platform to Advance Public Health
This resource calls on the Biden-Harris administration to take immediate action to address systemic health inequities and promote racial justice, focusing on...
A Guide For Implementing Media Roundtables
This resource provides tactics, tools, and resources to help plan a media roundtable.
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...
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 re...
The History of Seat-Belt Laws Shows Public Health Doesn’t Have To Be Partisan
This resource details how seat-belt laws, initially controversial, gained bipartisan support by focusing on child safety and strategic advocacy, suggesting a...
Our History of Advocacy: Defending Your Right To Breathe Smokefree Air Since 1976
This resource outlines the key milestones in the fight for smoke-free air, detailing legislative victories, grassroots efforts, and public health campaigns l...
Advocacy for Public Health Policy Change: An Urgent Imperative
This resource serves as a comprehensive guide to public health advocacy. It covers essential topics including the central role of advocacy in public health,...
They Took On the Food Giants — and Won
This story highlights the influential role of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (C.S.P.I.) in advocating for healthier food policies and practice...
The Power of Policy: 10 Tips for Getting Things Done in Public Health
This resource provides insights and strategies for effectively translating evidence into action through policy in public health. The speakers offer practical...
Public Health Advocacy: Informing Lawmakers about What Matters Most in Our Communities
This resource details the importance of public health advocacy, highlighting how public health professionals and informed citizens can effectively engage wit...
Opinion: Always the Bridesmaid, Public Health Rarely Spotlighted Until It’s Too Late
This resource explains the distinct roles and importance of the public health system and the healthcare system in the U.S., emphasizing the critical need for...
APHA Legislative Advocacy Handbook: A Guide For Effective Public Health Advocacy
This resource provides a detailed guide on engaging in public health advocacy, including understanding legislative and regulatory processes, effective commun...
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...
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 state...
State of Black America
This resource is an annual report by the National Urban League that assesses progress and challenges faced by Black Americans. The 2024 edition reflects on t...
CityHealth
CityHealth is a website that provides evidence-based policies to promote health and well-being in cities, with a focus on affordable housing, complete street...
Reclaim Your Vote
This resource is a campaign dedicated to promoting voter registration, education, and activation. It emphasizes the importance of civic engagement, protectin...
Strengthening Partnerships Between Public Health and Community-Based Organizations
This resource offers recommendations and a roadmap based on insights from health department and CBO leaders to enhance partnerships and address public health...
CityHealth Executive Summary Report
This document provides a summary of City Health’s 2017 report on cities that are leading the way on policies shown to improve people’s health a...
CityHealth 2018 Report Methodology
This document contains a detailed description of the methodology used for CityHealth’s report on that cities are leading the way on policies shown to...
Strategic Skills For Public Health Practice: A Series
This resource equips public health professionals with skills and fosters partnerships across sectors. The series covers topics such as policy engagement and...
Strategic Skills for Public Health Practice: Policy Engagement
This resource is designed to help public health practitioners navigate policymaking. It equips them with the knowledge and tools needed to engage effectively...
Arizona Social Vulnerability Index (AZSVI)
This tool adapts the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, tailored to Arizona’s unique conditions with rent burden, food insecurity, and heat vuln...
Pathways to Population Health Equity Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation (AACT)
This tool is used for evaluating community collaborations across six key areas, providing insights into their health and potential improvements. It can be ta...
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...
Voting and Health: Evidence and New Tools for Action
This webinar discusses the significant link between voting and health, exploring how voting acts as a political determinant of health. Speakers share insight...
Understanding Legal Authority to Address Social Determinants of Health
This resource offers a deep dive into the legal aspects surrounding Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and public health, providing insights into the...
Ensuring Equitable Access to Participation in the Electoral Process: A Policy Brief From the American College of Physicians
This resource outlines the interplay between voting and health, touching on voter turnout rates, barriers to voting, and the impact of electoral processes on...
Talking to Skeptical Voters
The resource underscores the importance of voting, especially in local elections, by highlighting how few votes can make a significant difference. It encoura...
Voter Conversation Starters
This resource provides conversation starters for healthcare professionals to discuss voting readiness with patients, emphasizing the impact of voting on heal...
Communications Tool: Strategies for Developing Culturally Driven Public Health Communications
This tool assists public health communicators in effectively engaging multicultural audiences. It is segmented into three sections – messaging, visual...
Play, Read, and Vote for Health
This resource discusses the interconnectedness of health and democracy, emphasizing the importance of play, reading, and voting for a healthier nation. It hi...
Advancing Health Equity Through Voter Participation
This resource discusses the interconnectedness between health and democracy, emphasizing the importance of voter participation in promoting health equity. It...
Civic Health Compact: An Opportunity For Health Care Leaders
This resource is a framework health and civic leaders developed to integrate civic engagement into healthcare policies and practices. It aims to address heal...
Health is Always on the Ballot
This resource discusses the relationship between voter turnout, public health, and city civic engagement. It highlights the impact of low voter turnout on po...
Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation
This resource is designed to help organizations manage and counteract misinformation effectively. The contents outline a structured approach to prepare for,...
Civic Engagement and Health Slides
This resource is a presentation highlighting the connection between health, voting, social determinants of health, and structural determinants of health, wit...
Healthy Voting
This site promotes healthy voting practices and emphasizes the link between voting and community health outcomes. It guides different voting options, deadlin...
Vote For Health
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5 Ways Health Departments Can Help Ensure Healthy Voting: 2020
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Many Missing Pieces: The Difficult Task of Linking Early Childhood Data and School-Based Data Systems
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Florida Codified Law Review Information Sharing Initiative
This resource summarizes key Florida state laws regarding data sharing.
Health Information and the Law
This website provides information on state and federal laws pertaining to health information. It provides overviews of state and federal laws, analysis of im...
Using Administrative Data for Randomized Evaluations
This resource provides guidance on obtaining and using nonpublic administrative data for evaluation purposes. It includes overview of select federal laws, is...
Media Advocacy 101
This resource gives a brief overview of what media advocacy is.
Legal Agreements and Supporting Documents
This online resource provides a brief overview of the importance of data use agreements and contracts in obtaining and using administrative data, and it cont...
State and Federal Consent Laws Affecting Interstate Health Information Exchange
This resource provides an overview of legal and policy consent issues associated with interstate health information exchange. It provides case studies of dif...
Measuring Performance: A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results
This resource provides a process for Promise Neighborhood grantees to establish data systems and processes to collect and report data required by the Governm...
Inter-Jurisdictional Health Information Exchange: Guidance for Public Health Agencies
This document provides guidance for creating inter-jurisdictional data sharing agreements to facilitate sharing between public health agencies in different j...
Clark County Information Sharing Guide
This resource provides guidance relating to inter-agency data sharing for juvenile justice reform in Washington state. This resource is a product of the Mode...
The Integration of Early Childhood Data: State Profiles and A Report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education
This resource provides information relating to the creation of early childhood integrated data systems using existing administrative data to state government...
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User’s Guide Third Edition
This two-volume manual provides detailed information on creating and operating various health-related registries. The manuals include in-depth discussion of...
Data De-identification: An Overview of Basic Terms
This resource provides an overview of key concepts relating to data de-identification as it pertains to FERPA.
The Privacy and Security of Non-Traditional Occupational Health Services
This resource provides an overview of the federal laws relating to data protections for occupational health records and provides some guidance for determinin...
Lessons in Framing
This resource discusses the concept of “framing” in media and its significant influence on public debates and policy discussions, especially co...
Public Health and Media Advocacy
This resource explains how media advocacy supports the social justice grounding of public health while addressing public health’s “wicked probl...
A History of Public Health
This resource discusses major historical trends and concepts of public health and their relationship to the individual and the community, health issues from...
Delivering Your Message
This resource is about preparing and effectively delivering messages during media interviews. It highlights the importance of selecting the right spokespeopl...
Guidance on the Release of Information Concerning Deaths, Epidemics or Emerging Diseases
This guidance document provides recommendations to journalists and public health information officers pertaining to the release of health information in the...
Confidentiality Toolkit
This toolkit is intended to help jurisdictions successfully navigate the balance between privacy and security with the delivery of efficient and effective se...
Worksheet: Overall Strategy
This worksheet helps provide clarity in your overall advocacy goals, as well as the steps you will take to achieve them.
Framing 101
This resource explores the concept of framing, its implications for advocacy, and its role in promoting health equity.
The Freedom of Information Act
This website serves as a gateway to making Freedom of Information Act requests for information held by federal agencies.
Strength in Numbers: Supporting Quality Improvement in Early Care and Education Programs through Linking Administrative Data
This resource describes challenges in linking administrative data relating to early care and education programs and provides specific strategies to address t...
Integrated Data Systems and Student Privacy
This resource describes FERPA compliance issues associated with the creation and operation of integrated data systems involving education data. It discusses...
Video: Engaging Communications To Create Healthy Environments
In this presentation for the 2014 Colorado Health Symposium, BMSG Director Lori Dorfman discusses why health education and data don’t go far enough to...
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Data Sharing
This resource provides a brief overview of New York’s UI Data Sharing Bill (S5773A). The resource describes the new uses for unemployment insurance da...
What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: Making the Case for Environmental Change
This brief resource shows how to create frames to help people see that environments affect health.
Rising to the Challenge: Building Effective Systems for Young Children and Families, a BUILD E-Book
This resource provides information on creating linked data systems relating to early learning and development. It provides high-level overview of relevant le...
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Guidance for Reasonable Methods and Written Agreements
This guidance document provides answers to frequently asked questions regarding the FERPA protections and disclosure provisions.
Business Associate Contracts
This HHS guidance provides a template for a HIPAA business associate agreement.
Toolkit for Communities Using Health Data
This resource from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics describes the principles for data governance and...
The Privacy and Security of Occupational Health Records
This issue brief provides an overview of federal laws relating to occupational health records and gives best practice recommendations for protecting the priv...
Conquering the Trials and Tribulations of Data Sharing and Linking
This slide deck provides information on legal and policy considerations and misconceptions related to early childhood integrated data systems, including less...
Data Sharing Requirements Initiative: Collaborative Approaches to Advance Data Sharing
This resource provides guidance for organizations working in alternative payment models to better obtain and use data form outside organizations, and provide...
Data Protection Law in the USA
This resource provides an overview of select federal and state data protection laws that might be relevant to the operation of non-profit organizations. It i...
Criminal and Epidemiological Investigation Handbook
This resource provides guidance on joint criminal and epidemiological investigations involving law enforcement and public health officials. It describes lega...
Message Delivery: The Interview
This resource provides tips and a practice exercise for delivering a strategic message during interviews or presentations. It emphasizes the importance of ad...
The Legal Landscape of Justice and Health Information Sharing
This issue brief describes select federal laws relating to data protections for justice and health information and outline relevant state law issues and ethi...
Minnesota Statutes Governing Data Classification and Sharing
This resource summarizes key Minnesota state laws relating to data sharing.
Data Sharing Agreements
This resource provides guidance and links to other resources for researchers needing data sharing agreements to use military health information managed by th...
Blog: Overcoming Common Communication Challenges: A 3-Part Series for Advocates
This three-part series includes, three steps for getting started with media advocacy, using values and framing to create messages that motivate, and deliveri...
Make Open Data Sharing a No-Brainer for Ethics Committees
This resource is an online repository for consent forms that have been used in IRB-approved research, with a focus on neuroimaging research. This resource al...
Open Government Guide
This resource contains information on state open records laws (sometimes known as freedom of information laws or sunshine laws). The resource provides uses g...
Data Protection in the United States: Overview
This Q&A-format resource provides an overview of a variety of federal data protection laws.
Privacy Tools for Data Sharing: Lessons Learned and Directions Forward
This resource compiles the slides and recordings of an interdisciplinary workshop summarizing findings from a 5-year NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Fr...
Comparison of FERPA and HIPAA Privacy Rule for Accessing Student Health Data
This document provides a side-by-side comparison of the FERPA and HIPAA privacy protections to facilitate sharing between schools and health agencies.
Models for Change Information Sharing Tool Kit
This toolkit provides information for jurisdictions seeking to share data to support juvenile justice reform efforts. It contains summaries of several federa...
Public Health Access to Student Health Data: Authorities and Limitations in Sharing Information Between Schools and Public Health Agencies
This issue brief discusses the FERPA and HIPAA data protections and exceptions relevant to data sharing between schools and public health agencies.
How Advocates Can Make Their Issue More Newsworthy: Tips From a Veteran Reporter
This resource discusses the challenge journalists face when creating unique and engaging stories about annual holidays, as these events are often subject to...
ASTHO Public Health and Information Sharing Toolkit
This toolkit outlines concepts and issues relating public health agencies’ authority to collect, use, and share information for emergency preparedness...
Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
This HHS guidance provides an overview of the federal HIPAA protections and requirements.
ASTHO Public Health and Schools Toolkit
This toolkit provides information, fact sheets, and resources relating to public health agencies’ legal authority to conduct public health activities...
Legal and Ethical Considerations for Health Department Data Sharing
This document describes legal and ethical for public health use of HIV data. It focuses on state laws and whether health departments can use or share HIV dat...
Data Sharing Agreement Checklist for IDEA Part C and Part B 619 Agencies and Programs
This resource provides information on creating written agreements to obtain and use education data protected by IDEA Parts B and C and FERPA. It contains lis...
Using Proactive and Reactive Media Strategies
This resource is about how advocates can effectively engage with the news media. It discusses two primary ways advocates can interact with the press: by resp...
Summary of Selected Federal Laws and Regulations Addressing Confidentiality, Privacy and Security
This resource provides a summary of nearly 50 different federal laws relating to data protection in different sectors.
National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Lessons on Local Data Sharing
This resource describes a process for negotiating data sharing agreements with local agencies with the goal of creating a neighborhood indicator system.
Newsworthy Elements
This resource discusses various elements that can make a news story newsworthy and how advocates can use them to attract media attention and support their po...
Worksheet: Creating a Media Advocacy Calendar
This text is about creating a media advocacy calendar, which serves as a timeline to identify critical moments in the political process and opportunities to...
Communicating for Change Trainings
This resource discusses the launch of the Center for Healthy Communities by The California Endowment in April 2006 to advance community health by bringing to...
Public-Health Emergency Authority Act
This resource provides a map, bill list, summary, and enactment history regarding the Public Health Emergency Authority Act. Further documents are also avail...
Blog: 7 Things Advocates Should Know When Communicating About Health Equity
This resource discusses the challenges and strategies for effectively communicating the concept of health equity in the field of public health.
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 Incorpor...
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 curati...
USAJOBS
USAJOBS is the official online platform for job opportunities in the United States federal government. It’s a comprehensive website where individuals...
Epidemic Intelligence Service
This webpage provides information on the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program. The page offers links to apply for the fellowship, host an EIS officer,...
Fellowships and Training Opportunities
This webpage provides diverse fellowship, internship, training, and volunteer opportunities for students and professionals.
Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program at CDC
This webpage discusses the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF), a program that provides a fast-paced opportunity to gain experience, develop talents, and f...
CDC NERD Academy Curriculum (for grades 6-12)
The CDC NERD Academy is an educational resource for STEM students to learn about public health, epidemiology, and related careers. The curriculum includes le...
Learn to Love Networking
This article addresses the common aversion to networking and provides four strategies for changing one’s mindset.
The Networking Guide for Public Health Professionals
This webpage discusses the significance of networking for students and professionals in public health. It provides strategies for effective networking, such...
Columbia University Center for Career Education: Networking
This webpage offers programs, resources, and further reading relating to networking.
10 Reasons Why Networking Is Essential for Your Career
This resource suggets why networking should be at the core of your career.
Networking and Social Media
This webpage discusses common networking challenges and ways to improve your networking strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using social media.
Networking Successfully in Public Health and Global Health
This resource discusses networking and why is it important, networking opportunities in public health and global health, and strategies for effective network...
Professional Networking in Public Health
This website suggests the importance of professional networking, particularly in public health. It discusses various types of networks, in-person and online...
Protecting Local Democracy: 2023 Legislative Session Overview
This report explores all the preemption trends in states nationwide this past year. The report also highlights what issues advocates are most concerned about...
Using Strategic Messaging and Framing To Motivate Others To Support Public Health
This course focuses on using strategic messaging tools simultaneously with framing tools to motivate cross-sector partners and other non-public health expert...
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 underserv...
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 capital...
Advocacy vs Lobbying: What Can You Do?
This webinar discusses the regulations surrounding lobbying and advocacy and some examples of activities that are well within the realm of advocacy. The webi...
Conducting Research Through an Anti-Racism Lens
This guide is for students, staff, and faculty who are incorporating an anti-racist lens at all stages of the research life cycle. It shares racist research...
Assessing Legal Preparedness for Emergencies: An Overview of the Prevention Measures Law Assessment Tool
This webinar overviews the newly drafted Prevention Measures Law Assessment Tool. Using lessons learned from the past 12 years, including strategies deployed...
Making the Most of Your Public Health AmeriCorps Experience: Poster Sessions 101- What To Expect
Are you presenting a poster at the APHA 2023 Annual Meeting? Or thinking about presenting a poster at APHA 2024? Join us to learn about poster session best p...
Trends in US State Public Health Emergency Laws, 2021–2022
This resource identifies and categorizes US state legislation introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, that addresses emergency health authority...
Regulating Public Health Measures
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation regulating public health measures introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U...
Public Health Preemption
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation preempting public health measures introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U...
State Limits on Enforcement of Federal Law
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation seeking to limit federal law enforcement introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in a...
Strengthening Public Health
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation strengthening public health introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U.S. st...
Reallocation of Public Health Authority
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation attempting to reallocate public health authority introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 2...
Public Health Authority Limits
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation limiting the emergency public health authority of state governors, state health officials, and loca...
Accessibility Guidelines for Presenters
This resource offers guidelines for creating accessible PowerPoint and posters. Presentation tips and handouts are also included.
Messaging Research: Effective Public Health Communication Strategies for Divisive Political Climate
This resource includes findings and messaging recommendations from Big Cities Health Coalition’s polling of critical audiences in its m...
Explore the Health Snapshot for Your Congressional District
This dashboard provides actionable measures of health and its drivers, calculated at the congressional district level. It shows users how their district perf...
Micro-Toolkit: Equity Assessment Framework for Public Health Laws and Policies
This resource includes six steps to assess potential equity implications for a new or existing policy and identifies opportunities for improvement and contin...
Undoing the Drivers of Health Inequity
This resource shows how ChangeLab Solutions addresses the five fundamental drivers of health inequity by developing legal and policy strategies to transform...
Policy Process Evaluation for Equity: A Tool for Commercial Tobacco Prevention at the Point of Sale
This guide discusses how public health and commercial tobacco prevention practitioners are focusing on equity in policy development to address tobacco-relate...
Innovative Laws and Policies for a Post-Pandemic Public Health System
This report compiles policies that aim to strengthen public health in various categories, such as governance, funding, health equity, infrastructure, workfor...
PH WINS: Dashboard
Users can explore the national findings from PH WINS 2021 utilizing this resource. To examine the data in more detail, users can apply filters, compare subse...
Pandemic Highlights Deep-Rooted Problems in Indian Health Service
This article covers how amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has struggled to provide medical care. The agency is crippled by a lack...
Poster Session Guidelines
This resource offers Poster Session guidelines and a graphic presentation of an author’s research. It includes general information, poster development...
Service Learning and Undergraduate Research Office of the Provost: Guidelines
This resource offers tips for abstract submission, presentation guidelines, and examples.
Poster Presentations: Planning a Poster
This resource offers poster planning, designing, printing, and presenting considerations. In addition, UAB library resources and links to UAB templates are i...
#betterposter
This resource describes the #betterposter template. The essentials include a main finding, in significant type and plain language; an “ammo bar”...
How To Create a Better Research Poster in Less Time
This video aims to provide a more efficient and fun approach to designing scientific posters/academic posters that are both more usable and easier to create....
Combating Misinformation as a Core Function of Public Health
This resource discusses the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which established a Misinformation Response Unit to counter the harmful im...
Making Posters With Powerpoint
This resource offers a multistep approach to creating PowerPoint posters for a presentation or event.
How Do You Make Your First Scientific Poster?
This blog offers suggestions related to both poster content (i.e., what to put in the poster) and the layout (i.e., how to distribute the content in the post...
Preparing a Poster Presentation
This resource offers tips on poster production timelines and poster appearance.
How To Prepare a Scientific Poster
This resource offers insights from researchers across various disciplines and career stages on maximizing poster presentations at conferences, including adap...
How To Design an Award-Winning Scientific Conference Poster
This resource suggests what a poster is not and what it should be. It also offers four steps for creating a poster.
Tips on Creating a Conference Poster
This resource includes nine tips for creating an effective poster.
How To Make an Effective Poster
This presentation aims to provide insight into the purpose of an academic poster, poster presentation guidelines, what an academic poster is, why academic po...
Designing Conference Posters
This resource offers an overview of the poster concept, downloadable templates, what to put in each section, DOs and DON’Ts, how to make your poster m...
Fact Sheet: HHS Announces ‘HHS Bridge Access Program for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments’ To Maintain Access to COVID-19 Care for the Uninsured
This resource outlines the Biden-Harris Administration’s prioritization of easy access to COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans and the implementation o...
Using Behavior Over Time Graphs To Spur Systems Thinking Among Public Health Practitioners
This resource explores how public health practitioners can use Behavior Over Time (BOT) graphs to analyze complex challenges and engage in group discussions...
A Public Health Guide to Ending the Opioid Epidemic
This resource provides a public health approach to fighting the opioid crisis, including a prevention-oriented model that has not yet permeated the academic...
Myths and Facts About COVID-19 Vaccines
This webpage provides myths and facts about COVID-19 vaccination.
2023 Update: Strategies for Equitable Policymaking
This resource builds upon the equitable policymaking frameworks and concepts outlined in the Blueprint. It explores drivers of health inequity, community eng...
Innovative Laws and Policies for a Post-Pandemic Public Health System
This report collects and categorizes policies aimed at strengthening public health. It focuses on enacted state laws but includes examples from federal, loca...
How to Look and Sound Confident During a Presentation
This resource offers tips on appearing and sounding confident during presentations. It emphasizes making eye contact, maintaining an open posture, using gest...
5 Tips To Feel More Confident With Public Speaking
This resource offers five tips to help overcome a fear of public speaking.
How To Write an Abstract for the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference
This webpage guides crafting effective abstracts. Included are the Four C’s of abstract writing.
Making the Most of Your Public Health AmeriCorps Experience: APHA 2023 Application Tips
This resource is intended for Public Health AmeriCorps members considering applying for an APHA Annual Meeting scholarship—the video contains tips on...
2020 Forces of Change: The COVID-19 Edition
This resource examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local health departments across the United States. The report provides insights into the challe...
NACCHO University
This resource provides a range of online courses, webinars, and resources tailored to the needs of local health departments and their staff. National Associa...
National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT)
This resource serves as a central hub for coordinating and disseminating training resources and programs to public health professionals across the United Sta...
Public Health Review Morning Edition
This podcast offers informative and engaging discussions on various public health topics. Each episode provides an exploration of important issues, featuring...
ASTHO’s e-Learning Center
This resource offers self-paced courses for public health professionals. It provides multimedia content, interactive modules, and collaborative learning oppo...
Making Your Abstract Awesome and Getting It Accepted
This resource focuses on improving the quality and acceptance rates of abstracts. It provides insights and strategies for enhancing abstracts and increasing...
How to Write a Successful Abstract for a Public Health Conference
This resource describes the steps in writing a scientific abstract for submission to a public health conference and will discuss specific ways to improve abs...
Writing Abstracts and Developing Posters for National Meetings
This resource offers guidance and insights for palliative care fellows and junior faculty members interested in presenting a poster at a national meeting. It...
Making the Most of Your Public Health AmeriCorps Experience: Abstract Tips for APHA’s Annual Meeting
This resource is intended for Public Health AmeriCorps members considering applying for an APHA Annual Meeting scholarship—the video contains tips on...
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 d...
APHA LEAD
This resource is an online community platform that brings together public health professionals and enthusiasts. It offers a space for collaboration, networki...
Public Health CareerMart
This resource is a job site for public health professionals, offering a career guidance center for employers and job seekers.
National Profile of Local Health Departments
This resource represents a data source on Local Health Departments (LHDs). The study describes the funding, staffing, governance, and activities of LHDs acro...
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 Apr...
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 Conferenc...
PH-HERO Workforce Resource Center
This webpage provides resources to protect, support, connect, and grow the well-being and retention of the workforce. The PH-HERO Workforce Resource Center i...
Insight and Inspiration: Conversations for Public Health Leaders
This resource provides information on the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ (ASTHO) Insight and Inspiration webinar series design...
Health Equity Summit: A Movement for Justice
This resource is a registration page for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)’s Health Equity Summit. The summit is an ed...
Public Health TechXpo and Futures Forum
This resource is a registration page for The Futures Forum by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). It is an educational program...
Public Health Associate Program
This resource is the CDC’s Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) homepage. It provides information on the PHAP two-year training program administered...
Careers.org
This website offers resources for career exploration, job search strategies, and educational programs. It provides information and tools to support individua...
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO): Stay Informed
This webpage provides newsletters on public health topics for professionals and policymakers. It offers valuable information and updates on emerging trends a...
National Association of County and City Health Officials: Student Home
This webpage is an online platform by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) for students interested in public health. It prov...
Fellowships and Training Opportunities
This webpage offers information and resources related to fellowship programs offered by the CDC. It provides details about various fellowship programs availa...
USA JOBS
This website serves as the official job portal for the United States federal government. It provides a centralized platform where individuals can search and...
Leveraging Community Expertise to Advance Health Equity
This brief examines how governments and organizations adopt community engagement approaches to collaborate and share power with communities that experience h...
Partners for Advancing Health Equity: Resource Library
This resource contains a collection of materials, such as reports, articles, and tools, related to health equity and the work of the Partners for Advanc...
Making the Most of Your Public Health AmeriCorps Experience: Webinar 1
This resource is intended for Public Health AmeriCorps members to learn more about public health and receive an introduction to four national organizations r...
Making the Most of Your Public Health AmeriCorps Experience: APHA Annual Meeting Scholarships
This video discusses APHA’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Expo and opportunities to network, learn and collaborate. Included are insights on what to expect...
Rapid Evidence Review: Policy Actions for the Integration of Public Health and Health Care in the United States
This study aimed to identify policy actions to improve the integration of public health and health care in the United States. Through document analysis and c...
Report to the President: Supporting the U.S. Public Health Workforce
This resource emphasizes the need to rebuild the public health system to achieve health equity. It acknowledges the failures of the system during the COVID-1...
Tips for Writing an Excellent Conference Abstract
The resource offers tips for writing a conference abstract. It highlights the importance of clearly stating the purpose, methods, results, and conclusions of...
How To Write an Abstract: 4 Tips for Writing an Abstract
This summary provides guidance on writing an effective abstract. It emphasizes the importance of brevity, relevance, and clarity in capturing the main ideas....
Writing an Abstract for Your Research Paper
This resource provides direction for how to write an abstract for a research paper. It includes the definition and purpose of an abstract, the contents, when...
Worksheet: Message Development
This worksheet outlines effective message development that is used in advocacy. It offers a description of how to create these messages while providing some...
Power Tools
This website contains a wide array of tools and resources that can be used for advocacy and campaigning. Some of these resources include: planning tools, coa...
Legislative Alerts
This website provides legislative updates from the federal government. The resources are centered around the implications of governmental affairs with state...
State Public Health Legislation Database
This database offers up-to-date information about bills that relate to public health in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Users are able to...
Public Health Authority Litigation Tracking
This database offers weekly updates pertaining to judicial action and litigation surrounding public health authority throughout the nation. Many of these cas...
The Evolution and Innovation of Combating Abusive Preemption
This workshop discusses preemption within state legislatures and how to combat abusive preemptive measures. Speakers highlight specific case studies in vario...
Advancing Prenatal-to-Three Policies: A Guide to Finding Commonalities and Solutions with Conservative Decision-Makers
This two part workshop highlights the ways in which people can work across the aisle and create meaningful change. The first part of this workshop is comprom...
Marketing Public Health
This free, hour-long course offers an introduction to the principles of branding and marketing public health to stakeholders. The course will equip users wit...
Campaign Resource Library
This resource library offers a wide array of resources relating to disciplines of public health that can be used in campaigns. Some topics include: media adv...
Distinguishing Advocacy, Lobbying and Education: Tips for Public Health Outreach
This video distinguishes the differences between lobbying, advocacy, and education in a public health regard. It’s important to know the differences i...
Power Mapping for Public Health Advocacy
This video discusses power mapping in the public health advocacy sphere. Christine Compton of Voices for Healthy Kids shares how to build your capacity to ad...
Communications for Public Health Advocacy
This video addresses how to effectively communicate about public health to a variety of audiences. Speakers in this video offer recommendations and suggestio...
How To Build Partnerships for Public Health Advocacy
This video discusses how to build and sustain partnerships for public health advocacy. Speakers elaborate on their experiences working with multi-sectoral pa...
Confronting Health Misinformation the U.S. Surgeon Generals Advisory on Building a Healby Information Environment
This advisory comes from the U.S. Surgeon General regarding the dangers of health misinformation and ways to combat it. It contains a summary of the ramifica...
Communicating During an Outbreak or Public Health Investigation
This report offers information regarding how to communicate in times of public health crises, outbreaks and investigations. It highlights the necessity for s...
Six Ways to Boost Public Support for Prevention-Based Policy Authors
This journal article discusses how to effectively advocate for prevention-based strategies to solve social problems. It contains a brief background on the di...
The NACCHO Advocacy Toolkit
This toolkit is a comprehensive introduction to governmental affairs advocacy. It offers explanations of different types of engagement, congressional timelin...
Preemption Message Manual
This toolkit discusses the importance of preemption and helps users advocate for local decision-making. It includes audience motivations and concerns, tested...
CDC’S Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
This guide outlines effective communication strategies when discussing health equity. It outlines the various ways in which we can embed health equity concep...
The Family Van: Wellness Within Reach
Family Van is a mobile health clinic that provides healthcare services to underserved and low-income communities in the Boston area. It offers free screening...
Mobile Health Map
Mobile Health Map is a network of more than 1,000 mobile clinics working together to increase access to health care and achieve equity. This website provides...
Opinion: The Unnecessary Price of COVID-19
This story discusses “Lessons from the Covid War,” which highlights American policy failures and successes during the Covid-19 pandemic. The re...
Ready or Not 2023: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
This annual report evaluates the US’s preparedness for public health emergencies. The report evaluates the country’s ability to respond to...
Coalition for Trust in Health & Science: Resources
This collection of resources includes articles, research studies, and expert opinions that promote trust in science and healthcare. The resources cover vario...
FrameWorks: Framing the Foundation of Community Health
This toolkit contains various suggestions and recommendations on how to discuss public health in varying situations. It includes articles, FAQs, and in-depth...
Advocacy for Public Health
The American Public Health Association provides advocacy resources related to voting, Congressional engagement, policy statements, and resources explaining k...
Connecting the Dots: How to Message the Abuse of State Preemption
This guide is designed for starting conversations about preemption, especially abusive preemption. They provide a comprehensive strategy on how to begin the...
Building Your Advocacy Toolbox: Advocacy vs. Lobbying
This flyer discusses the key differences between health advocacy and lobbying. They provide a description of each action and examples of how they both can be...
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...
‘It’s a Tsunami’: Legal Challenges Threatening Public Health Policy
This articles discusses the various court orders that diminished public health authority surrounding mask and vaccine mandates. The authors discuss the poten...
Becoming Better Messengers
This website contains various resources and tools that relate to effective messaging in public health environments to create meaningful dialogue. The website...
The Collaborative on Media and Messaging: Focus Areas
This website provides health policy communications support. The repository contains information on several health communications focus areas, including the i...
FrameWorks: Government
This website discusses how to approach communication oriented around the government and policy. It contains various articles, reports, and toolkits on how to...
What is Public Health Authority FAQ
This website provides an introduction to public health authority, including key definitions and explainations of public health concepts, threats to public he...
FrameWorks: Human Services
This website discusses human services and how to communicate about them. The website contains various toolkits, reports, and recommendations on how to approa...
FrameWorks: Evidence-Based Policymaking
FrameWorks provides a resource hub for evidence-based policymaking and communications support. The website includes guides and webinars regarding reframing s...
Public Health Advocacy: The Basics
This webinar explains public health authority and legislation related to lobbying and advocacy for public health professionals. The web page includes additio...
Making the Case for Public Health
This webinar includes resources for communicating the importance of public health infrastructure to prevent limits to public health authority. The resource i...
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...
State Laws Limiting Public Health Protections: Hazardous for Our Health
This report contains an analysis of all state laws that impact public health authority as of May 20, 2022. The laws described in this report relate to the CO...
Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders
This policy brief synthesizes the data depicted in Temple University’s Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders....
Connecting the Dots: How to Message the Abuse of State Preemption, Audience-Specific Message Modules
This guide is an addendum to an existing guide that provides specific strategies on how to facilitate conversations about preemption. This guide provides sug...
2022 End-of-Session Report: ‘Undermining Democracy’
This report showcases certain preemption state laws that were introduced and/or enacted in the 2022 legislative session. These laws relate to public health a...
Campaign Toolkits: Preemption
This guide provides advocacy materials for public health preemption. The resource introduces preemption and provides guides for recruitment, engagement, and...
Community Health Partnerships: Tools and Information for Development and Support
The guide provides a comprehensive framework on how to identify, create, and sustain healthy partnerships. Partnerships between organizations among different...
Fundamentals of Preemption
This fact sheet provides summarizes the main types of preemption and how it operates. The authors provide various examples of preemption to understand how th...
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...
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...
State Action on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This data tool provided by the National Conference of State Legislatures culminates and tracks all bills relating to COVID that entered state legislatures. T...
Early Pandemic Access to COVID-19 Testing in the Somali Community in King County, Washington, USA: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation
This study found that the Somali immigrant community in King County, Washington, experienced barriers to accessing COVID-19 testing due to distrust, stigma,...
National Public Health Week Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help the public health community prepare for National Public Health Week. Below you’ll find a curated collection of resour...
Vaccinate With Confidence
Vaccine Voices is a website promoting vaccine acceptance by sharing personal stories and experiences related to vaccines. It includes video testimonies, reso...
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...
Basics of Health Equity
In this introduction to health equity, health equity and justice are defined, equality and equity are compared and contrasted, the four levels of racism are...
Prioritizing Equity: Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety During COVID-19
This resource discusses how quality and safety can drive equitable health care and outcomes examined through the lens of COVID-19.
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...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
This book covers the story of Lia Lee, a child of Hmong immigrants diagnosed with a severe form of epilepsy, and the cultural conflict that obstructs he...
How Culture Influences Health
This webpage outlines how culture influences the health of individuals, families, and communities. It also provides guidance for healthcare professionals in...
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 Na...
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...
Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward
This journal article compares the public health responses for the 1918 influenza and 2020 COVID-19 responses, specifically as it impacts Black Americans. The...
The Black History of Public Health: From Legacies of Racism and Resistance to Futures of Equity and Justice
FACT SHEET: President Biden Signs Executive Order To Strengthen Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Across the Federal Government
This resource covers President Biden’s executive order aimed at strengthening racial equity and support for underserved communities across the federal...
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 phys...
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...
Applying for Grants to Support Rural Health Projects
This guide can serve as a starting point for those who need assistance to begin the grant writing process. It will cover tips on searching for rural-specific...
Building Family Confidence in the COVID-19 Vaccine: Framing Strategies for School Nurses
The National Association of School Nurses offers this resource with the aim to increase confidence in and access to pediatric COVID-19 vaccinations.
Rural Philanthropy Toolkit
The Rural Philanthropy Toolkit focuses on preparing for partnerships with philanthropies, conducting outreach to philanthropies, and establishing and sustain...
Grant Writing Toolkit
The Center for Rural Health’s Grant Writing created an outline that provides rural communities with the information, resources, and materials they nee...
Candid Learning
Candid Learning offers in-person or online training and special events from their training experts and peers in the field. Training and special event topics...
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 lik...
Community Foundation Locator
Find Community Foundations in your area by clicking on the map.
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 cu...
What Happens When COVID-19 Emergency Declarations End? Implications for Coverage, Costs, and Access
This brief provides an overview of the major health-related COVID-19 federal emergency declarations that have been made and summarizes the flexibilities trig...
The End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Details on Health Coverage and Access
This article outlines what major health policies will and won’t change when the public health emergency (and national emergency) declarations end. Inc...
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 me...
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 focu...
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 legislat...
Act for Public Health
Act for Public Health provides direct support to public health departments and others through consultation, training, legal technical assistance, research, a...
Death by Missing Data: Uncollected Racial and Ethnic Pandemic Data Will Drive Inequities for Decades To Come
This article highlights the data deficiencies at every stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, national reporting of racial and ethnic disparities in Covid-19 t...
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
This story highlights a nonprofit’s experience of racial bias being part of the philanthropic and grantmaking process. The result is that nonprof...
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 o...
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 chan...
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-1...
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
Going Beyond Public Health 3.0: How Flexible Funding Streams Can Help to Break Down Silos, Change Systems, and Advance Health Equity in Local Communities
This article dicusses the Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge, a funding opportunity that strives to fund multisector work differently to better support...
Vaccinate for All: Resources for Champions
This set of resources and tools is specifically tailored to increase vaccine uptake and address the main barriers that Hispanic people face in the current he...
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 workfo...
The Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge
This webpage details the Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge (HCCC), in which 20 project teams in communities across the nation are awarded grants...
COVID-19 Information Navigator
This training aims to support bilingual and multilingual community members in reducing health information barriers by sharing vital health information with p...
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 cycl...
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.
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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 implemen...
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...
Keeping Young Farmers on the Land in COVID-19
This blog is part of a three-part series on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on land access and security for farmers. The first post outlines the potential...
COVID-19 Fallout Hits Farmers
This article discusses the mental health of farming communities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
America’s Farmers: Resilient Throughout the COVID Pandemic
This blog post provides information and data on farming operations and how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted U.S. farmers.
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...
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 demogr...
Examining Progress Toward Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities for Healthy People 2020 Objectives Using Three Measures of Overall Disparity
This report provides the first-ever assessment of health disparities by race and ethnicity across all Healthy People 2020 objectives using multiple measures...
Increased Respiratory Virus Activity, Especially Among Children, Early in the 2022-2023 Fall and Winter
This Health Advisory provides information about the early, elevated respiratory disease incidence in the 2022-2023 winter season. Diseases caused by multiple...
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 scientifi...
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Organizational Action Toolkit
This toolkit serves as a first step for organizations ready to implement Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices. Using this toolkit, boar...
Project REFOCUS
This website summarizes Project REFOCUS, a project that provides a real-time crisis monitoring system and educational resources for public health practitione...
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 o...
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...
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 t...
TFAH Healthy Aging Resources Toolkit
This document compiles resources for the promotion of healthy aging. Resources are organized by topic, including age-friendly communities, aging in place, ca...
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...
Supporting Community-Based Organizations To Reignite a Culture of Immunization
This report examines the $120 billion spent by the federal government on public health measures including the development and distribution of vaccines and if...
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 memb...
Updated Toolkit: COVID-19 Booster Dose Messaging and Outreach Tools
This webpage provides a collection of communication tools and resources to help answer questions about updated COVID-19 booster doses and support local vacci...
Building an Ecosystem of Community-Led Public Health
This article explores how centering communities helped overcome mistrust and barriers to accessing COVID-19 vaccines and looks at lessons learned for buildin...
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 i...
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...
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, vaccine...
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: September 2022
This report provides information from a survey on the state of vaccination in the United States as of September 2022. Key topics covered in the survey includ...
Suicides Among American Indian or Alaska Native Persons — National Violent Death Reporting System, United States, 2015–2020
This Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) discusses suicides among American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. It provides a comparison of 2015&...
The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear
This story discusses how American leaders and pundits have been trying to call an end to the pandemic and how this mindset not only compromises the nation...
Overview of Opioid Treatment Program Regulations by State
This brief examines opioid treatment program (OTP) regulations across all 50 states and the District of Columbia as of June 2021 in two areas: access to care...
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 stimula...
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 hea...
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 t...
Summit 4 Accelerating Action Report: Catalyzing Cross-Sectoral Partnerships and Community Engagement
The fourth in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together nearly 1,500 participants...
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 participant...
Equity and Enhanced Individual and Community Resilience Are Integral to a Meaningful Recovery
This blog post discusses the opportunity that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented for renewal in a transformational way, based on the importance of individua...
2022 Is the Year of Decision
This report proposes eight recommendations to strengthen America’s health security and secure U.S. global leadership in the next phase of pandemic res...
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 staf...
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 pub...
American Pandemic Preparedness: Transforming Our Capabilities
This document describes the critical work needed to transform U.S. capabilities to respond rapidly and effectively to any future pandemic or high consequence...
National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan, March 2022
This White House plan lays out a roadmap for fighting COVID-19 in the future as we begin to get back to our more normal routines. The plan focuses on four ke...
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 p...
A Public Health Success Story
The article uses the story of limited access to the COVID-19 vaccine supply in Birmingham, Alabama in order to revisit the larger issue of the coronavirus pa...
Creating a Welcoming and Accessible Vaccination Site
This fact sheet gives vaccine providers the knowledge and resources needed to address the factors inhibiting vaccine access and confidence in an equitable wa...
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, ex...
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 resilie...
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 equ...
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...
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 o...
Priority Populations Channel
Trauma-Informed Care in Primary Health Settings—Which Is Even More Needed in Times of COVID-19
This paper aims to review the existing studies that support the practice of trauma-informed healthcare and to summarize best practices. It also explains how...
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 under...
Understanding Coverage Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments
This report provides an overview of the current coverage and payment of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments across payers, identifies expected gaps in coverage...
2022-2023 Flu Season
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides information about flu, including symptoms, treatments, and vaccination. It also includes frequently asked questio...
Information and Resources on COVID-19 and COVID-19 Vaccines
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides links to COVID-19 information and resources.
Vaccines and Diseases
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides information about vaccine-preventable diseases and why vaccines are important.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: Chronic Diseases
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination suggestions for adults with chronic diseases.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: Adults
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination suggestions for all adults. It also includes frequently asked questions about vaccines.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: Jobs, Lifestyle, and Travel
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination suggestions for all adults based on their jobs, lifestyles, and travel plans.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: Preteens and Teens
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination suggestions for preteens and teens. It also includes frequently asked questions about vaccines.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: Babies and Children
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination suggestions for babies and children. It also includes frequently asked questions about vaccines.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: Before Becoming Pregnant
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination recommendations for people preparing for pregnancy.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: During Pregnancy
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination recommendations for people during pregnancy.
Which Vaccines Does My Family Need: Pregnancy
This Vaccinate Your Family webpage provides vaccination suggestions for people before or during pregnancy. It also includes frequently asked questions about...
VICNetwork | Virtual Immunization Communication Network
The Vaccine Immunization Communication (VIC) Network regularly posts new webinars about effective immunization communication strategies, the importance of ut...
Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit
CDC created this comprehensive toolkit to help providers implement best practices and recommendations that will help protect patients, safeguard vaccine supp...
Vaccine Information Statements
Vaccine Information Statements inform vaccine recipients (or their parents or caregivers) about the benefits and risks of a vaccine(s) they will be receiving...
Vaccine Administration: Making the Process More Efficient in Your Practice
AAFP’s guidance to help healthcare providers make the vaccine adminstration process more efficient.
Red Book: 2021-2024 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases
AAP’s Red Book provides clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childho...
The Vaccine Handbook App
This resource is a comprehensive source of vaccine information that brings together vaccine science, guidance, and practice.
Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
CDC’s Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (“The Pink Book”) provides physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, ph...
Raising Vaccination Rates During a Pandemic
This Vaccinate Your Family (VYF) blog discusses ways to raise vaccination rates when many people are living under stay-at-home orders
Vaccine Update for Healthcare Professionals
This is CHOP’s Vaccine Education Center’s (VEC) website for healthcare providers. Here you will find VEC announcements, current and past articl...
Vaccines and Immunizations: For Healthcare Professionals
This webpage provides evidence-based immunization strategies and best practices for healthcare providers and professionals.
Talking to Parents About Vaccines
These resources were developed by CDC, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to help healthcare prof...
PneumoRecs VaxAdvisor Mobile App for Vaccine Providers
This CDC page introduces a mobile app that helps vaccination providers quickly and easily determine which pneumococcal vaccines a patient needs and when.
ChildVaxView Publications and Presentations
Each year, CDC publishes child vaccination coverage reports from the National Immunization Survey. This link brings you to publications that provide addition...
Immunization Information Systems (IIS)
This CDC’s website presents general information about IIS.
Give Birth to the End of Hep B
The Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) has a variety of resources to help hospitals and birthing centers meet the national standard of care by providing a u...
How Immunization Information Systems Can Help Pediatricians and Family Physicians
VYF created this brochure to help physicians learn more about how participating in their local IIS can save their office practice both time and money.
Have More Time to Take Care of What Really Matters, Your Patients: How PNPs Can Get the Most Out of Using Immunization Information Systems
This brochure for pediatric nurse practitioners describes benefits of participating in their local Immunization Information System.
Increasing Appropriate Vaccination: Health Care System-Based Interventions Implemented in Combination
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends using a combination of health care system-based interventions to increase vaccination rates i...
Guidelines for Vaccinating Pregnant Women
Based off of the ACIP’s recommendations and guidelines, CDC offers healthcare providers guidelines and resources for vaccinating their pregnant patien...
Vaccine Administration
CDC created this online training module to help educate providers about proper vaccine administration. Continuing education credits are offered for this trai...
Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
This resource is the CDC’s recommended childhood immunization schedule (Birth through 18 years old) and footnotes for healthcare professionals.
Association of Immunization Managers
This links to AIM’s homepage. AIM was created in 1999 to enable immunization managers to work together to effectively prevent and control vaccine-prev...
American Immunization Registry Association
The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) exists to support and promote the use of immunization information to ensure healthy communities through...
Standards for Adult Immunization Practice
This webpage contains a variety of resources, including fact sheets, recommendations, and other shareable content, intended to help healthcare providers...
Catch-up Immunization Schedule for Children and Adolescents Who Start Late or Who Are More than 1 Month Behind
This is CDC’s recommended catch-up schedule for children (4 months through 18 years) who start late or are more than 1 month behind on their immunizat...
Video FAQs
Vaccinate Your Family created these short videos to help answer common questions that parents have about childhood vaccines.
Call, Don’t Cancel: Talking to People About Vaccinations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This blog presents information for parents and adults to understand why their families must stay up-to-date on their vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemi...
Vaccine Information Statements (VISs)
This website informs vaccine recipients (or their parents or caregivers) about the benefits and risks of a vaccine(s) they will receive.
Did You Know Your Child Can Get Free Vaccines?
CDC created this toolkit for parents to answer their questions about The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. The program provides free vaccines to children...
Top 4 Things Parents Need to Know About Measles
This webpage contains the top 4 things parents need to know about measles, including how measles is spread and how parents can protect their children from me...
The Journey of Your Child’s Vaccine
CDC’s infographic gives information about complex processes in place in the U.S. that ensure vaccines are effective and safe.
Understand the Difference Between the COVID-19 and Normal Vaccine Approval Process
AVAC created this graphic to help people understand the differences between the COVID-19 vaccine and the regular vaccine approval processes.
Talking about Vaccines with Dr. Stanley Plotkin
In each 1- to 2-minute video, Dr. Plotkin answers a question about vaccine science.
Resources to Help Address Vaccine Misinformation Online
This resource provides links to several websites that address vaccine information and misinformation online.
Recursos de Vacunación Para Padres y las Mujeres Embarazadas (Edición 2021)
VYF developed this Spanish-language resource to bring together vaccine resources from CDC, VYF and other credible organizations. Individual resources from th...
Sabias Que a Hijo Lo Pueden Vacunar De Manera Gratuita?
This Spanish-language resource for WIC staff and participants can also be helpful for any parent or pregnant person. It combines resources from CDC, Vaccinat...
Child and Adolescent Vaccine Assessment Tool
This assessment tool can be used by parents to determine which vaccines their child may need.
The Adult Vaccine Assessment Tool
This CDC’s Adult Vaccination Quiz helps you find out which vaccines are recommended for you.
Vaccines, Calling the Shots
Several diseases that were largely eradicated in the United States a generation ago-whooping cough, measles, mumps-are returning, in part because nervous par...
Credible Organizations and Websites for Vaccine Information and Resources
This list contains credible sources of information on vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases.
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.
Las 4 cosas principales que deben saber los padres sobre el sarampión
This Spanish-language webpage contains the top 4 things parents need to know about measles, including how measles is spread and how parents can protect their...
Contacts for IIS Immunization Records
The CDC website has contact information for the Immunization Information System (IIS) in every U.S. state/territory.
How Do We Know Vaccines are Safe?
This blog from Vaccinate Your Family explains the pre-and post licensure vaccine safety system in the U.S.
Growing Up with Vaccines: What Should Parents Know?
CDC created this resource to help people understand vaccinations needed from pregnancy through adulthood.
Get the Facts Handout for Expecting Parents
This handout from Vaccinate Your Family shows pregnant people and their families where they can find credible vaccination information for people of all ages....
Concerns During Pregnancy
This fotonovela tells a story of a pregnant woman thinking about whether she should get vaccinated.
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety for Babies and Children
This resource cointains key information about COVID vaccine safety for babies and children.
Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule by Age
This CDC toolkit gives healthcare providers detailed childhood and adolescent immunization schedule guidelines. It also includes scheduling for catch-up vacc...
Enfermedades Prevenibles Por Vacunación En Niños y Adolescentes
This Spanish-language booklet contains descriptions of vaccine-preventable diseases in children and teens. Information on each disease provided includes symp...
Child and Teen Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
This booklet contains descriptions of vaccine-preventable diseases in children and teens. Information on each disease provided includes symptoms and methods...
Enfermedades Prevenibles por Vacunación en Adultos
This Spanish-language booklet contains descriptions of adult vaccine-preventable diseases, including symptoms and methods to prevent disease contraction.
Adult Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
This booklet contains descriptions of adult vaccine-preventable diseases, including symptoms and methods to prevent disease contraction.
Adult Immunization Schedule
This CDC toolkit contains reccomended immunization schedule for adults in the U.S.
COVID-19 | ACOG
This ACOG webpage contains information about COVID-19 for pregnant and breastfeeding women, including facts, frequently asked questions, expert views etc. AC...
ACIP Vaccine Recommendations and Guidelines
This Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) webpage contains links to specific vaccine recommendations and guidelines.
Immunization Resources for Parents and Parents-to-Be
This booklet contains vaccination resources for parents-to-be, including the reccomended immunization schedule and tips for clinic visits.
Improving the Well-Being of Native Older Adults and Their Caregivers
This story discusses how the challenges faced by older adults and caregivers in tribal communities were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant...
Monkeypox: What You Need to Know
This webpage provides a compilation of essential information currently known about monkeypox. It includes resources for the public, advocacy purposes, and cl...
Monkeypox: The State of the Science
In this webinar, a panel of experts discuss the recent state of the science of monkeypox, the known disease epidemiology, prevention options, and critic...
Mpox
This webpage provides a compilation of resources on monkeypox, such as infographics, blogs, and webinars.
Pandemic Response Institute – News and Events
This webpage provides a list of webinars and news articles on trends, new findings, and information on pandemic-related topics.
Know Your Rights Guide to Surviving COVID-19 Triage Protocols
This is a “Know Your Rights” toolkit that covers rights and strategies for people facing potential triage discrimination based on disability or...
Evaluation Framework for Hospital Visitor Policies
This guidance document outlines the legal framework under disability rights laws for reasonable accommodations to state and hospital no-visitor policies. It...
The Pandemic’s Silver Linings: Moving Toward a More Inclusive New Normal for People with Disabilities
This article points out that during the pandemic, many experienced for the first time external barriers that prevented them from participating in everyday li...
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 a...
COVID-19, Accessibility, and Libraries: A Call to Action
In this call to action, the author argues that libraries should prioritize accessibility and follow the Americans with Disabilities Act, which directs busine...
United by Hope, Divided by Access: Country Mapping of COVID-19 Information Accessibility and Its Consequences on Pandemic Eradication
This article explores the importance of accessibility implementation during normal times, and points out that the current COVID-19 pandemic highlights just h...
Covid-19 and Digital Accessibility: The Importance of Digital Accessibility
This fact sheet outlines the importance of integrating the inclusion of persons with disabilities throughout its work toward digital accessibility. New digit...
Cultural Humility and Competence
Cultural humility is a lifelong process of transformative self-reflection and continuous learning. It involves recognizing and challenging power imbalances,...
COVID-19 Response: Digital Accessibility and Other Best Practices for Remote Work
This resource discusses the importance of digital accessibility at work, specifically in the context of remote work. It lists action items to help organizati...
COVID-19 Continues to Highlight Gaps in Accessibility for People with Disabilities
This resource discusses how COVID-19 has highlighted the gaps in equitable situations and data for people with disabilities. It also discusses the way that t...
Vaccine Website Accessibility Dashboard
This dashboard tracks the accessibility of each state, territory, and District of Columbia’s vaccine information webpage, where information about prio...
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 pro...
Get Ready: Sharing
This webpage compiles visual tools from the Get Ready initiative. It provides quick, simple, and easily shareable information on emergency preparation and di...
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...
COVID-19: What Are the Basics?
This webpage provides a collection of tips, videos, and resources to help people prepare for and protect against COVID-19.
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 resp...
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 compil...
Pharmacists’ Guide to Increasing Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
This toolkit is intended for vaccine providers. It contains resources and guidance on how to address factors inhibiting COVID-19 vaccine access and how to ad...
Intergovernmental Dimensions of the COVID-19 Responses and Consequences
This report examines the varied and sometimes conflicting governmental responses to the pandemic and outlines 37 actionable recommendations across four inter...
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...
Pathways to Population Health Equity Action Plan
This collaboration tool guides users through the process of documenting and identifying priority areas and strategies to advance health equity.
Pathways to Population Health Equity Compass
This assessment tool helps public health change agents see where they are in their health equity journey and chart a path forward. Users can choose between c...
Understanding the Collaboration Continuum
This written story describes levels of collaboration and the capacities needed for each level.
Types of Communication Networks
This webpage describes five types of communication networks that can occur in an organization or community.
Community Tool Box – Toolkits
This compilation of toolkits provides information and resources for a variety of community work objectives, including building leadership, assessing communit...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
This video resource consists of a conversation with author of “Sum of Us” about shifting the narrative of the journey of equity from a zero-sum...
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.
The Climate Change and Health Playbook: Adaptation Planning for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
This digital playbook is designed to support the work of state, local, territorial, and tribal health services nationwide in embedding justice, equity, diver...
Ten Essential Practices for Transforming Regional Health and Well-being Through Regional Stewardship
This document outlines the ten most essential practices that...
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...
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.
Racial Healing and Achieving Health Equity in the United States
This issue brief discusses policy opportunities to address racism.
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...
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 capacit...
Promoting Internal Communication
This webpage provides information on how to make sure that your organization runs smoothly and effectively by promoting official and unofficial internal comm...
Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
This webpage provides information on mobilizing for action through planning and partnerships (MAPP), a community-driven strategic planning process for improv...
Meeting Individual Social Needs Falls Short of Addressing Social Determinants of Health
This written story distinguishes social needs from social determinants/upstream community conditions.
Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener’s Tale
The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on three levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework...
Improving Health Equity Through Rural Economic Development
This webinar describes the link between rural educational and economic development and health outcomes in Klamath County, Oregon.
How To Build a Diverse Coalition
This webpage provides strategies to recruit diverse leaders and community residents into your community coalition.
How Racism Makes Us Sick
This article explains how everyday racism and structural inequities add up to poor health and life outcomes.
HHS’s Strategic Approach to Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity – At a Glance
This resource provides a brief summary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ approach to addressing social needs, social determina...
Healthy Places Index Policy Guides
This resource identifies evidence-based policy interventions to meet the needs of the community tied to indicators in the Healthy Places Index. Interventions...
Health Impact Assessment
This webpage provides tools to understand health and equity impacts of policies and programs across sectors, applied as part of a Health in All Policies Appr...
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.
Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
This issue bried is full of curated policies and practices that can be implemented at the local level to promote racial healing and advance racial equity....
Engaging People with Lived Experience: A Toolkit for Organizations
This webpage contains detailed strategies for engaging people with lived experience into care and change processes.
Countering the Production of Health Inequities
This webpage provides a systematic look at how exclusionary policies and systems produce health inequities in different neighborhoods by sector. It includes...
Connecting Public Dialogue to Action and Change
This toolkit is intended to help people go from community dialogue to mobilizing community change.
Complex Care Startup Toolkit
This toolkit provides tools to operationalize a system of complex care that address mental, physical and social needs together.
Community Health Worker Roles and Resources
This webpage provides resources for engaging a community health worker workforce.
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...
Communities of Solutions
This website is a review of key characteristics that lead to growing, equitable transformation in communities.
Everyday Democracy Communications Toolkit
This is a toolkit for equitable communications in the context of community change.
Budgeting for Health
This book chapter discusses how countries can effectively budget for health, or allocate national funds to the health sector, and why this process is importa...
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 h...
Advancing Health Equity: Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts
This guide was created to stimulate critical thinking about language, narrative and concepts-helping readers to identify harmful phrasing in their own work a...
Addressing Health Misinformation
This is a curated toolkit with communication strategies from the Office of the Surgeon General.
A Primer on Community Power, Place, and Structural Change
This resource examines how health equity can be achieved through a community power-building approach to structural change. It defines community power, highli...
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 practiti...
A Pathway to Building Health and Well-being Through Regional Stewardship
This resource outlines the essential practices stewards commit to and develop to create equitable opportunities for everyone to reach their full potential fo...
10 Dangers of Collective Impact
This article examines the worst practices in using the collective impact approach for social change and lessons on how to avoid them.
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 democr...
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 w...
Racial, Ethnic, and Language Concordance Between Patients and Their Usual Healthcare Providers
This brief discusses the need to diversify the workforce to improve patient-provider relationships and patient health outcomes. Perceptions of a shared ident...
Youth Not Totally on Board With COVID Vaccine Incentives
This discusses youth views on COVID-19 vaccine incentive programs. While many adolescents and young adults view these programs positively, not all young peop...
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 tre...
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 addressin...
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 infor...
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...
Trusted Voices for COVID-19: Engaging Community Leaders To Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy
This story highlights three COVID-19 outreach initiatives that use peer-to-peer communication with trusted messengers and other evidence-based strategies to...
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 joini...
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...
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 wh...
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 action...
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 h...
Signals from Monkeypox: Create an External Advisory Group to Start Preparing for the Next Pandemic
This lays out the benefits of private-public partnerships in disease response, using growing monkeypox cases as a basis for increased investment.
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 d...
Novavax COVID Shot, Aimed at Vaccine Skeptics, Overwhelmingly Backed by FDA Panel
This resource outlines recommendations made to the United States Food and Drug Administration’s regarding the emergency use authorization of Novavax I...
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...
Indigenous Knowledge Library
Indigenous knowledge—also known as traditional knowledge—refers to information, meanings, purposes, and values that Indigenous peoples have gat...
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 o...
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 als...
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 hea...
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...
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–mak...
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 look...
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 an...
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 i...
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 d...
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 publ...
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...
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 eradi...
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 di...
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 Sta...
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 ...
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, a...
Pandemic Highlights Deep-Rooted Problems in Indian Health Service
This article covers how amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has struggled to provide medical care. The agency is crippled by a lack...
Thriving Together: Engaging through Dialogue
This webpage houses resources for authentic and meaningful dialogue, which can strenthen our sense of belonging and connection by building relationships. The...
America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens
This resources discusses the lengthy history of racism against Asian Americans in the United States. It discusses how racist COVID-19 pandemic responses are...
The State of Black America and COVID-19: A Two-Year Assessment
This report shares the arc of the pandemic for Black Americans, synthesizes data from multiple sources alongside lived experience, highlights areas for immed...
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 he...
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...
Find COVID-19 Guidance for Your Community
This website provides resources and information on COVID-10 treatment, vaccines and testing, and masks, including a vaccine/booster locator; a form to order...
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 valu...
Incorporating Principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Climate Adaptation Planning
This webinar explores the practical application of the principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in health and environmental agencies and...
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, a...
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 commu...
COVID-19 and Heart Disease
This webpage contains various articles, webinars, and resources on COVID-19 and women’s heart health. Readers can learn how to stay safe during the pa...
How COVID-19 Vaccines Can Stay Efficient in the Long Run, Despite New Variants
This article discusses the importance of COVID-19 vaccines to reduce new variants and looks at the need for more testing and sequencing in order to improve s...
White Paper-Stopping COVID-19: Short Term Actions for Long-Term Impact
This white paper presents the results of an analysis by MITRE and other experts on how to disrupt the COVID-19 pandemic’s trajectory. It calls for str...
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 w...
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...
Mental Health Awareness Is Paramount As We Battle COVID-19 and Racism
This webinar discusses the importance of addressing mental health in the wake of the fear, uncertainty, loss, and stress that the COVID-19 pandemic has cause...
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 helpin...
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 syste...
Building an Equitable Recovery from COVID-19
This series of case studies features four communities that have used its civic infrastructure to address immediate, pandemic-related needs in ways that have...
The Color of COVID-19
This panel discussion explores the underlying causes of the pandemic’s disparate impact on communities of color, as well as the inequitable responses...
Protecting Community Health Workers Through COVID-19 and Beyond
This article shares the stories of community health workers in Malawi, who continued serving their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic even with PPE cha...
Strengthening Mental Health and Wellness Support in COVID Response in Sao Paulo
This article looks at how TEDx has adapted to the changing landscape of COVID-19. It shares how TEDx has explored health from new perspectives and focused on...
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 betwee...
How To Include the Social Determinants That Impact Behavioral Health in a Health Equity Tracker
This blog post looks at how social determinants affect behavior health outcomes and explores how disparities in behavioral health services can be included in...
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-s...
A Special Conversation: Dr. Tony Fauci and Oprah Winfrey
This blog post summarizes and highlights key parts of Oprah’s interview with Dr. Fauci on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Dashboard
This dashboard allows users to explore community-specific resources and tools on COVID-19, community disaster, environmental justice, and community resilienc...
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.
An Overview of the White House COVID-19 Action Plan Vaccine Mandates
This document provides an overview of the COVID-19 vaccine mandates that were implemented in September 2021.
COVID-19 Resources for Cardiovascular Nurses
This webpage is intended for cardiovascular nurses. It contains a collection of resources on cardiovascular care, telehealth, mental health, and other resour...
Update and NHMA Call to Action
This webpage acts as a call to action for Spanish-speaking physicians to help educate communities on COVID-19. It provides a collection of general COVID info...
COVID-19 STD Program Resources
This webpage provides a collection of COVID-19 resources for STD programs, including COVID-19 testing and reporting, sex and COVID-19, and more.
Medicaid Access During Economic Distress: Lessons Learned From the Great Recession
This brief shares reflections and insights into the 2008 Great Recession to help inform policymakers with how to respond to the economic downturn and maintai...
FDA Shares Vaccine Information in Multiple Languages
This webpage provides a compilation of translations in multiple languages from the FDA for COVID-19 vaccination information.
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 preventio...
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...
Schedule a COVID-19 Vaccine or Booster Shot
This webpage provides a convenient site to schedule vaccine and booster appointments, check eligibility, and find information about commonly asked questions...
COVID-19 Latest News On The Coronavirus Outbreak
This webpage provides the latest stories and articles from the Kaiser Health News on COVID-19.
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-spo...
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...
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...
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 c...
Population Health Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This blog post highlights key points from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s interview with Dr. Kara Odom Walker, who shares her expertise and...
COVID-19: Care of Older Adults
This webpage contains a collection of resources curated by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on how to healthcare in the context of older adults.
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.
Now is the Time: Acting Today Will Ensure We Have A Strong Health Workforce Tomorrow
This article from the president of Grant Makers in Health acts as a call to action for the philanthropic field to help support the needs of workers and addre...
Building a More Inclusive Internet, Beyond COVID-19
This blog post focuses on the changing landscape of internet users and looks at what Google and other organizations can do to support new internet users, esp...
Resources for Mental Health Support During COVID-19
This blog post highlights resources on mental wellbeing and shares what Google is doing to help support mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pande...
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...
Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19
This blog post provides an overview of how COVID-19 can affect heart health, specific concerns for people living with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and...
FH Foundation Webinars
This webpage contains a compilation of webinars from the Family Health Foundation. Viewers can view past recordings and learn about upcoming webinars on heal...
Outbreaks Near Me
This tool allows users to explore COVID-19 and flu data in their communities. Users can view self-reported data and government-reported date. They can also c...
Research and Publications
This webpage contains publications from Ending Pandemics, an organization working to improve early disease detection and rapid response to emerging diseases....
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 accep...
Aqui Nos Cuidamos
This website is a project of the Ciencia Puerto Rico and is in Spanish. It contains various infographics, animations, videos, and other resources to promote...
COVID-19: Health Departments: Information on COVID-19
This webpage is intended for health departments and provides guidelines, tools, and resources from and curated by the CDC on COVID-19.
COVID-19 Planning Checklist
This checklist helps users with simple, practical things that they can do to plan for, prevent, and manage COVID-19.
ASTHO COVID-19
This webpage is intended for state and territorial health officials and their agencies. It contains reports, webinars, training materials, guides, tools, and...
Responding to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
This webpage presents how the Association of Public Health Laboratories is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Smoking and COVID-19: The Real Deal
This article focuses on smoking and explores the possible mechanisms by which it could affect SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 health outcomes.
Territory-Wide Study on Hospital Admissions for Asthma Exacerbations in the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article presents the findings of a study on how asthma hospitalizations were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The results suggest that preventative me...
Controlling Chronic Lung Diseases Amid COVID-19
This webpage was created as a resource for people with chronic lung diseases and provides essential information on COVID-19.
COVID-19 Updates
This webpage provides the updates on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Amazon employees and the hiring process. It includes information on mask regulati...
COVID-19 Health Equity Resources
This webpage provides a list of health equity resources from curated by the American Medical Association that examine the structural issues that contribute t...
Health Literacy Resources on Inequities and for Non-English Speakers
This webpage provides a collection of resources, tools, and examples that are designed to improve access to critical information about COVID-19 and raise awa...
11 Vital Coronavirus Research Findings You Should Know About
This webpage provides a compilation of eleven significant studies, reports and editorials on COVID-19.
COVID-19 Health Equity Initiatives Across the United States
This website highlights the efforts of health care, governmental and community organizations across the country that are providing resources to minoritized a...
Approaching the Intersection: Will a Global Pandemic and National Movement for Racial Justice. Take Philanthropy Beyond Its Silos
This report explores how the philanthropic sector is responding to inequities, policy brutality, and racism that has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemi...
Foundations Response to Crisis: A Moment of Transformation?
This report is the first in a three-part series and focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped the thinking and actions of U.S. foundations.
#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.
Yale COVID-19 Data
This data dashboard allows users to explore data on Yale’s vaccination rates, COVID-19 incidence over time, and risk level.
Get Your COVID-19 Vaccine
This webpage contains a series of videos from OU Health and surrounding community members promoting COVID-19 vaccinations.
The Conservative Supreme Court that Embraced Vaccine Mandates
This article focuses on the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold vaccine mandates and draws parallels to how the Supreme Court responded to smallpox vacci...
Rural Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
This guide provides resources and information on how rural communities can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes topics such as protecting against CO...
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...
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 po...
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 th...
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 in...
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 effort...
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.
Structural Racism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Moving Forward
This article focuses on the issue of structural racism in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and lays out a pathway towards a more equitable society.
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 P...
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...
Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope with the Coronavirus Disease 2019
This guide is intended for parents and caregivers. It provides information on the COVID-19 pandemic, and helps prepare families physically and emotionally fo...
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...
Using Disadvantage Indices to Guide State Health Equity Efforts: On-the-Ground Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
This brief summarizes key themes and from a workshop on states’ experiences using disadvantage indices to inform their COVID-19 vaccination efforts. I...
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 constitu...
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 in...
2021 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment
This fact sheet provides an overview of the results from the 2021 Epidemiology Capacity Assessments conducted by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemi...
COVID-19 Funded Research Projects
This tool allows users to look up COVID-19 research projects that were funded by the National Institutes of Health. Users can search by state and congression...
Coronavirus Resource Center
This website provides a periodically updated compilation of questions and answers regarding COVID-19 topics, including prevention, vaccine, high-risk individ...
Resources to Support the Health and Well-Being of People with Substance Use Disorder and Those Who Experience Pain During the COVID-19 Outbreak
This webpage offers a compilation of resources on how to support patients and the clinicians who treat and manage the care of patients with substance use dis...
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,...
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) News and Resources from the National Academy of Medicine
This webpage contains a compilation of reports, webinars, events, and updates on various COVID-19 topics, including vaccination, inequitable health outcomes,...
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 effort...
Resources About the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webpage contains a curated collection of COVID-19 resources from Local Solutions Support Center’s partners. It is organized by topic area, which...
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 engage...
Engaging With Communities – Lessons (Re)Learned From COVID-19
This article focuses on how to effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through building partnerships with marginalized communities.
Community Building During the Coronavirus
This webpage provides recommendations and resources on how to continue work and build strong community connections during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conversations on COVID-19: Impacts on Communities of Color
This webpage presents a collection of webinars, reports, and other resources on how COVID-19 has and is affecting communities of color.
Communication Resources
This webpage presents a collection of resources and tools for effective communication regarding COVID-19. It includes videos, an image library, print resourc...
Resources for Correctional and Detention Facilities Preparing for the Release of People with Substance Use Disorder during COVID-19
This guide acts as a resource for correctional and detentional facilities on how to ensure that people with substance use disorder have access to post-releas...
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...
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...
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 t...
Managing Mental Health During COVID-19
This webpage is intended for healthcare professionals and presents strategies and resources to manage their mental health while caring for patients.
Pandemic Data Initiative
This initiative explores lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic on how to best support government efforts to collect and deliver comprehensive real-time...
Coronavirus (COVID19): How You Can Help
This webpage outlines fundraising initiatives aimed at addressing COVID-19, including a telemedicine program, a student emergency fund, and more.
Georgetown McDonough COVID-19 Resources
This page summarizes COVID-19 updates and guidance from Georgetown University.
Resources
This webpage contains a compilation of resources regarding COVID-19, with a specific emphasis on health equity and outreach in the Black community.
Our First Use Case: CV-19 Checkup
This website outlines CV19 Checkup, a tool designed to help older individuals to assess and mitigate their risks related to COVID-19.
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
This webpage contains information regarding COVID-19, including sections about vaccines, the effect of COVID on children, and how to manage chronic lung dise...
Understanding Social Distancing: How Far is Enough?
This webpage is designed to answer questions about social distancing and COVID-19, including why it is necessary and why recommended social distancing measur...
How to Protect Yourself and Others
This webpage contains information regarding how to protect yourself and others from COVID-19. Topics covered include masking, social distancing, vaccination,...
COVID-19: Symptoms, Safety, Protecting Family & More
This webpage offers a compiled list of COVID-19 facts, including information about how COVID spreads, how to protect yourself, testing, treatment, contact tr...
Coronavirus COVID-19: Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment
This webpage contains information about supplies and personal protective equipment shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically targeted towards hosp...
COVID-19: COVID-19 Science and Research
This webpage outlines science and research regarding COVID-19. The featured categories include CDC’s science agenda, science updates, data and surveil...
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.
Isolation and Precautions for People with COVID-19
This CDC webpage details regularly updated information regarding quarantine and isolation protocols. It features and quarantine and isolation calculator to h...
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 eco...
COVID-19 Community Health Tools
This webpage provides resources, FAQs and infographics for Tribal public health departments and workers, community organizations, and Tribal community member...
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 t...
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...
COVID-19 PPE Shortage
This webpage provides information regarding ongoing COVID-19 PPE and medical supply shortages and the impacts of these shortages.
COVID-19: How can the US contain the current rate of infection
This video includes several stories about the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, particularly during the spread of the Delta variant. Topics covered include booste...
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 f...
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 wo...
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 fac...
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...
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 ex...
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.
Contact Tracing for COVID-19
This webpage focuses on contact tracing for COVID-19. It provides information on various steps of contact tracing, including scaling up staffing roles, train...
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 ar...
Antigen Testing Resources
This folder contains a set of training materials for how to collect samples, test, and record results for COVID-19 antigen tests.
Find a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing Site
This tool allows users to find COVID-19 test sites by address, city, or ZIP code.
COVID-19 Test Kits
This webpage lists the available at-home COVID-19 tests sold through Amazon. It briefly describes the two types of available tests: molecular test and antige...
COVID-19 Vaccine: Key Things to Know
This webpage provides information on COVID-19 vaccine safety, side effects, booster shots, and more. It also includes links to vaccine-related services that...
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.
Big City Health Officials: Vaccines Can Help Protect Communities of Color
This video is aimed at communities of color and features various Big Cities Health Coalition members, who explain why they got the COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 Vaccine Comparison
This issue brief provides key details and a comparison of the three COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. It includes infor...
COVID-19 Vaccines Myths and Facts
This webpage presents common myths and facts about the COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Vaccines in Children and Adolescents
This policy statement presents recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics on COVID-19 vaccinations for children.
Ending Pandemics Calls for Broad U.S. Public Participation in New COVID-19 Tracking Program
This article introduces Ending Pandemic’s COVID Near You tracking tool and highlights the importance of large quantities of accurate data.
COVID Data Tracker
This interactive dashboard provides daily updates on COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations, and vaccinations data in the United States.
COVID-19 Health Equity Resources
This webpage provides a set of resources and educational material addressing community equity in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resources address issu...
U.S. Territories Data Added to Health Equity Tracker
This webpage provides information on the addition of COVID-19 data from the US territories to the Health Equity Tracker. The Health Equity Tracker is a datab...
COVID-19 Data Tracker
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement provides access to a COVID-19 Data Tracker via this webpage. This tool can be used to demonstrate COVID-19 trends, i...
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, assessin...
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 influencin...
6 Ways to Educate Rural Communities About the COVID-19 Vaccines
This article discusses the six best ways to maximize impact when educating rural Americans about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Slowing the Spread of COVID-19 Will Protect Communities
This article discusses how the government can better use data and new technologies to cope with new outbreaks with the goal to protect the nation’s he...
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 h...
Resilient American Communities Methods
This website provides methods that increase a community’s capacity to solve problems collaboratively and raise the voices of underserved communit...
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...
State and Local Governments Spent $150B. Then Got $350B More. Follow the Money.
This data story provides charts that compare payments from the Coronavirus Relief Fund and the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund for the top 15 states....
Who Are Prime Recipients and Sub-Recipients?
This data story explains the difference between prime-recipients and sub-recipients.
How Much Money Did Pandemic Unemployment Programs Pay Out?
This website provides a timeline with key dates for pandemic unemployment programs.
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-...
NBS Players Association Provides Over $500,000 in Matching Grants for Players’ Own Donations
This website provides information on the relief efforts and grants The National Basketball Players Association Foundation has made related to the COVID-19 pa...
COVID-19 School Testing Toolkit
This COVID-19 School Testing Toolkit social media content that communicates the importance of COVID-19 school testing and can be shared, informational flyers...
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 la...
COVID-19 Test Site Finder
This website provides state guidelines and information on COVID-19 testing sites regarding testing criteria, availability, and hours.
Taking Back Control: a Resetting of America’s Response to Covid-19
This report lays out a new plan for the largest domestic testing scale up to date and proposes 14 executive actions for the current and incoming administrati...
CDC Webinar-Strengthening Vaccine Confidence in Pediatric and Family Practice Offices During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This archived webinar with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), discusses...
How to Earn COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence? Build Trust
This resource was developed to help healthcare staff and leaders engage in trust-building conversations about the vaccine at work and in their communities....
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.
Building a More Inclusive Internet, Beyond COVID-19
This article provides information on how governments, businesses, and civil society organizations can work together to make the internet better and more incl...
How Physicians Can Build Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines
This guide provides ideas that doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other medical professionals can use to build confidence in vaccines among their patients. It...
Lessons from the Field: Building Organizational Resiliency to Deliver High-Value Care in Time of COVID
This article discusses the need to re-design the United States health systems around high-value care, equity, and more stable payment structures.
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 invo...
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 fu...
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...
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 courts...
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 he...
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 man...
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 he...
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...
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
In Common Newsletter: The Growing Gap
The In Common Newsletter shares new and featured resources from Community Commons. The second March 2022 newsletter featured original story “The Growi...
The Growing Gap: Gender Pay Equity, Meaningful Work, and Wealth during COVID-19
Meaningful Work & Wealth as a Vital Condition...
Shared Stewardship in Health Care
The guide describes how all members of the health care workforce can act as leaders to ensure all people can reach their full potential. The guide introduces...
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-drive...
The COVID Tracking Project
This webpage links to various datasets and tools to support regional and national tracking of COVID-19 data. Resources are stratified by field of expertise a...
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...
COVID-19 GIS Hub
This webpage provides access to an interactive map with information on COVID-19 case count and vaccination rate in the US. The data provided is updated regul...
Outbreak: A User-Friendly Georeferencing Online Tool For Disease Surveillance
This tool provides access to surveillance information through an animated map with detailed information on COVID-19 case count broken down by geographic regi...
FEMA COVID-19 Response Resources
This webpage provides access to an interactive database of state vaccination resources and locator tools. It also links to additional COVID-19 response resou...
WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard
This webpage provides access to an interactive global map of confirmed COVID-19 case count. Additional graphs and data are provided by world region and indiv...
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 loca...
Update to the Standardized Surveillance Case Definition and National Notification for 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
This guidance document provides information on COVID-19 and its case definition for surveillance purposes. Background information and updated data is provide...
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) Knowledge Repository
This resources is a searchable repository of information related to the surveillance of COVID-19. The items within the repository are indexed searchable by k...
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...
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....
FAQ: COVID-19 Data and Surveillance
This webpage includes tools, resources, and best practices for addressing vaccine access barriers. Methods for reaching underserved communities and addressin...
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,...
Information For Health Departments On Reporting Cases Of COVID-19
This webpage provides worksheets, instructions, and a data dictionary on the reporting of information on COVID-19 cases from jurisdictional health department...
Calculating SARS-CoV-2 Laboratory Test Percent Positivity: CDC Methods and Considerations For Comparisons and Interpretation
This webpage details how the CDC calculates percent positivity of laboratory test results of COVID-19.
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)
This webpage provides information on syndromic data critical to COVID-19.
Surveillance and Data Analytics
This webpage provides information and resources to help public health departments and laboratories investigate and report COVID-19 cases.
COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review
This webpage provides data charts with weekly updated information regarding the cases and hospitalizations of COVID-19 across the United States.
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 addres...
Preemption
This webpage provides an overview of preemption and highlights key resources connecting preemption, public health and equity.
Pfizer and BioNtech Provide Update on Omicron Variant
This press release addresses efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine against the Omicron variant.
Rural and Conservative Engagement Effort
This website details how the COVID Collaborative has partnered with Ad Council and trusted rural voices like the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Coopera...
The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is Available For Children Ages 5-11
This website details where families can locate vaccine hotspots for children between 5-11.
COVID-19 Vaccines For Children 5 To 11 Years Old
This website highlights frequently asked questions about COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5 to 11.
Inside America’S COVID-Reporting Breakdown
This written story provides information on how state officials identified hotspots to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.
COVID-19 Vaccines For Children
This editorial details COVID-19 vaccine trends for children, and calls upon the biomedical community to help increase vaccine confidence and acceptance among...
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...
Coronavirus In The U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
This mapping tool provides multiple charts with data on the latest updated regarding COVID-19.
What We Can Learn From Israel’s COVID-19 Vaccination Of Children
This analysis details how Israel was one of the first countries in the world to vaccinate its population, its pandemic experience has become a test case for...
COVID Vaccine: What Parents Need To Know
This website details what parents to need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 and older.
FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Children 5 Through 11 Years of Age
This news release details how the U.S. FDA authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 Vaccine for children ages 5 through 11.
Frequently Asked Questions About COVID-19 Vaccination
This website highlights commonly asked questions about COVID-19 vaccination in children ages 5 through 11 years.
Myths and Facts About COVID-19 Vaccines For Children
This website details the various myths and facts about the COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 Vaccines For Children and Teens
This website highlights how the CDC recommends everyone ages 5 years and older get a COVID-19 vaccine to help protect against COVID-19.
Bonus Training: Preemption
This presentation explores the connections between preemption, public health, and equity. It also contains information regarding how preemption can hinder or...
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 he...
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 t...
Framework For Equitable Allocation Of COVID-19 Vaccine
This report offers a framework for vaccine allocation to assist policy makers in the domestic and global health communities. Additionally, this report’...
Building Vaccine Confidence Through Community Engagement
This resource outlines the psychological and other scientific phenomena related to vaccination attitudes and behaviors. Additionally, it contains advice for...
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....
Review Of Geospatial Technology For Infectious Disease Surveillance: Use Case On COVID-19
This webpage provides information pertaining to the use of geospatial tools to monitor the progression of COVID-19. Background information and historical con...
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...
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 p...
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 surveillan...
Potential Benefits of Expanded COVID-19 Surveillance in the US
This journal article provides an analysis of benefits to be gained from an expanded surveillance of COVID-19 data. A breakdown of projected results is provid...
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...
U.S. COVID Risk and Vaccine Tracker
This interactive tool tracks vaccinations and COVID risk by geographic location. These data can be sorted by state, county, and metropolitan area and also in...
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...
Digital Technology and Disease Surveillance in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review Protocol
This journal article provides technical information on the use of digital tools for surveillance of COVID-19. Ethical, legal, and sustainability consideratio...
Surveillance For Adverse Events After COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination
This journal article addresses safety concerns related to the administration of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. It also discusses surveillance procedure and coordina...
A Pediatrician Talks With Parents About COVID-19 Vaccines
This series of videos aimed at parents offers information regarding COVID-19 vaccines, their potential side effects, and their effectiveness in protecting ch...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Shot Loses Power Against Omicron Variant, but Booster Restores Protection
This written story provides information regarding the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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. Te...
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 diseas...
What the Racial Data Show
This written story discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people of color and how data, like infection, hospitalization, and death rates, show how...
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...
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...
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 ar...
The Surveillance Gap: The Harms Of Extreme Privacy and Data Marginalization
This article seeks to identify and understand the causes, contours, and consequences of the surveillance gap and to outline legal and policy tools for addres...
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 for...
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.
Data and Digital Solutions to Support Surveillance Strategies in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The aim of this paper was to provide a comprehensive overview for the application of data and digital solutions to support surveillance strategies and draw i...
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.
Epidemiologic Surveillance For Controlling COVID-19 Pandemic: Types, Challenges and Implications
The purpose of this study was to determine the types, challenges and implications of surveillance methods used for controlling COVID-19 pandemic.
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, i...
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...
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...
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 demonstra...
Evaluation of the BNT162B2 COVID-19 Vaccine in Children 5 to 11 Years of Age
This journal article details that a COVID-19 vaccination regimen consisting of two 10-μg doses of BNT162b2 administered 21 days apart was found to be s...
Interim Statement On COVID-19 Vaccination For Children and Adolescents
This article examines the role of COVID-19 vaccines in adolescents and children in the global context of inequitable vaccine distribution across countries an...
An Update On Vaccine Roll-Out For 5-11 Year-Olds In The U.S.
This resource examines progress of the vaccine rollout for 5-11 year old’s to date nationally and by state.
Surveillance Strategies For COVID-19 Human Infection
This PowerPoint highlights the surveillance strategies used by the CDC for COVID-19 human infection.
Considerations In The Investigation Of Cases and Clusters Of COVID-19
This document offers operational guidance for the rapid investigation of suspected COVID-19 cases after an alert or signal. It is a tool to be used by local,...
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...
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 differe...
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
This resource is about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It explains the s...
Identifying the Outbreak Signal of COVID-19 Before the Response of the Traditional Disease Monitoring System
This comparative study discusses the early warning capability, timelines, and validity of alert signals for the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in China....
Community Wastewater-Based Infectious Disease Surveillance
This study examines the value of wastewater surveillance as a tool to trace, prevent, and control the spread of infectious diseases beyond COVID-19.
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...
How Well Do Non-MRNA Vaccines Work Against Omicron and Will Vaccine Inequity Worsen?
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Omicron: Three Vaccine Doses Key For Protection Against Variant
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Vaccine Protection vs. Omicron Infection May Drop to 30% but Does Cut Severe Disease
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U.S. Study Suggests Vaccines May Be Ineffective Against Omicron Without Booster
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COVID News: US Deaths Surpass 800,000
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Update On Omicron
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Latest on Omicron Variant and COVID-19 Vaccine Protection
This blog highlights the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 and what protection existing mRNA vaccines offer against it.
When Can Babies and Young Children Get The COVID Vaccine? What To Know About The FDA Timeline and More
This article reports on factors affecting the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for children under five years of age.
COVID-19 Vaccines For Children: How Parents Are Influenced By Misinformation, and How They Can Counter It
This article discusses the impact of social media on spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, and how to address parents’ vaccine concerns.
Legal Authority For Local Health Officers’ and Local Governments’ Responses To COVID-19 In California
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PIH’s Strategy for Achieving Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination
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Breaking Barriers to Quality Mental Health Care for LGBTQ Youth
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Guidance for Operating Youth and Summer Camps: Readiness and Planning Tool
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COVID-19 Infection Control Inventory and Planning (ICIP) Tool for Homeless Service Provider
This tool facilitates a conversation between health departments and homeless service providers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
TRAIN Learning Network
TRAIN is a learning platform that provides access to a national catalog of trainings developed by government agencies, universities, professional association...
Public Health Learning Navigator
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 m...
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 finan...
K-12 Schools COVID-19 Mitigation Toolkit
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The Bridge Between Public Health Education and Government Workforce Needs Fixing
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Seeing the Bigger Picture of Public Health Workforce Challenges
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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 Jou...
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...
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
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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 d...
Workplaces and Businesses
This webpage provides information on how to prevent and reduce transmission and maintain healthy business operations in non-healthcare workplaces.
Tribal Communities: Plan, Prepare, and Respond
This webpage provides COVID-19 guidance supporting tribal community members, leaders, and tribal partners.
Tribal Ceremonies and Gatherings During the COVID-19 Outbreak
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Training and Education Resources for the Workforce
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State COVID-19 Data and Policy Actions
This webpage highlights which states have adopted mandates and which populations are subject to the mandates
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 ed...
Rural Healthcare Workforce
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Retirement and Shared Housing
This webpage provides information on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in shared or congregated housing.
Resources for Nonprofits Facing COVID-19
This webpage provides resources for nonprofits in communities facing COVID-19 based on CDC guidelines of how we should be operating.
Quick Links to COVID-19 Community Mitigation Strategies and Tools: Resources for States, Tribes, Territories, and Localities
This resource includes links to COVID-19 mitigation guidance for specific sectors, as well as tools that communities and facilities can use to assess, improv...
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 d...
Public Health Workforce Development Strategies
This webpage describes public health workforce needs and steps required to prepare for the future.
Promoting a Community Engagement and Community Mitigation Approach to Early Action and Prevention of COVID-19
This report outlines a framework for COVID-19 mitigation that emphasizes the need for effective, two-way communication with health officials and communities...
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 work...
Nonprofits and Coronavirus, COVID-19
This webpage is regularly updated with information and resources that nonprofits can use to prepare and respond to COVID-19.
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 pro...
Homeless Populations
This webpage provides resources to support people experiencing homelessness during COVID-19.
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...
Guidance for COVID-19
This webpage provides a searchable list of CDC guidance regarding COVID-19. It also includes a comprehensive review of CDC’s existing COVID-19 guidanc...
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...
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 a...
COVID: Community Mitigation
This webpage details the analysis of global and domestic COVID-19 community mitigation responses in order to develop and disseminate practical, evidence...
COVID-19
This webpage details how can the nation respond in the short term to keep all people safe and the economy afloat? What policies could help all of us recover...
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...
Correctional and Detention Facilities
This webpage features resources, presentations and guidance for people who work and reside in prisons, jails and detention centers.
Coronavirus Pandemic: Community Mitigation Decision Support Tool
This webpage outlines a tool used to provide the data that state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government officials need to adjust community mitigat...
Community, Work, and School: Information for Where You Live, Work, Learn, and Play
This webpage provides considerations for ways community-based organizations can help protect individuals and communities and slow the spread of COVID-19.
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...
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 investigatio...
COVID-19
This webpage list several documents related to topics on restaurant closures, school closures, limits on mass gatherings, and maps to show mitigation practic...
Activities and Holidays
This webpage provides information on how to stay safe while engaging in activities or gathering indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 an...
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. Informat...
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 deve...
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...
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 repo...
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 conduc...
Household COVID-19 Risk and In-person Schooling
This report discusses the role of schools in transmission and the value of school closure.
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 publ...
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...
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.
COVID-19 Community Response: Emerging Themes Across Sentinel Communities
This report provides a collection of stories from communities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reader gets an introduction to nine communities, their...
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 t...
Adapting and Aligning Public Health Strategic Skills
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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...
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 workpl...
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....
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...
Bouncing Back (and Forth): Statewide Reopening and Mitigation Steps
This chart provides links to key reopening orders and/or mitigation measures affecting the private sector issued at the statewide level.
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 infor...
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 N...
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 th...
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...
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.
Mitigation Strategies and Compliance in the COVID-19 Fight; How Much Compliance is Enough?
This journal article investigates how mitigation strategies and compliance can work together (or in opposition) to reduce (or increase) the spread of infecti...
COVID-19 and Community Mitigation Strategies in a Pandemic
This journal article details community mitigation strategies for addressing COVID-19.
Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines
This journal article details the experiences of Black and Latinx communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how are these experiences associated with thei...
A National Strategy for COVID-19: Testing, Surveillance, and Mitigation Strategies
This journal article highlights strategies for COVID-19 testing, surveillance, and mitigation at the national level.
Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace
This guide is designed to help employers protect workers who are unvaccinated, including people who are not fully vaccinated.
Going Forward: Best Practices and Considerations for Nonprofit Re-engagement
This document aims to establish a foundation of ideas and recommendations for nonprofits to use during COVID-19 in collaboration with clients and partners....
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 k...
Common Agenda
This resource outlines the vision, mission, and goals of the National Consortium for Public Health Workforce Development. Some of these goals include advanci...
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...
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.
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 m...
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, stu...
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...
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 provi...
Coronavirus Rumor Control
This webpage was designed to help the public distinguish between rumors and facts regarding the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 h...
Social Distancing
This blog post introduces important information about social distancing and discusses the legal authority for implementing social distancing as a mitigation...
New Study Shows UC System Mitigation Efforts Reduced Campus COVID-19 Infection Rates
This blog details how the University of California system established guidance and protocols to reduce campus infection rates
Isolation and Quarantine
This blog details what public health leaders need to know about the legal issues regarding quarantine and isolation during COVID-19.
Guidance and Tips for Tribal Community Living During COVID-19
This blog details the tips that tribal communities can follow during COVID-19.
Ratcheting Up Rural Response, Recovery and Resilience: Five Good Ideas for Philanthropy Right Now
This webinar series features discussions between experts and leaders on what rural communities can do to help address and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic....
COVID-19 Resources for Community Leaders and Health Professionals
This webpage provides a compilation of resources, including fact sheets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, and more on COVID-19, vaccinations, and lung health.
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 u...
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. const...
Trustworthiness and Equity: Establishing Trustworthiness When Conducting Research in COVID-19 Testing
This webpage provides recommendations aimed at helping to build an effective and trustworthy COVID-19 testing research program.
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...
Community Needs Assessment COVID-19 Update Template
This webpage links to a tool for community needs assessment, provided by Community Action Partnership. Two versions of the tool are available, a comprehensiv...
Reimagining Strategy in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis: A Triage Tool
This article covers a tool created to help leaders begin or refine the process of reordering community priorities and reshaping the work of community institu...
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...
Emergency Authority and Immunity Toolkit
This toolkit addresses critical concepts regarding federal and state emergency declarations and the various response authorities and liability protections th...
Current Emergencies
This toolkit provides coronavirus disease press releases from 2019 regarding telehealth, clinical, technical, billing, coding, Medicaid, Medicare and open pa...
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.
The Demographics Of Covid: Explore The Pandemic’s Impact Across Age, Race, Gender, And Ethnicity
This graph shows detail the ages, races, ethnicities, and genders of the pandemic’s victims in each state and is updated every two weeks based on avai...
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 authorit...
Invest in Trust: A Guide for Building COVID-19 Vaccine Trust and Increasing Vaccination Rates Among CNAs
This guide helps nursing home leaders build COVID-19 vaccine confidence among CNAs and overcome barriers to vaccination by applying social, behavioral and co...
Social Listening And Monitoring Tools
This report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on social listening, with COVID-19 as the main subject of interest. It a...
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...
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...
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 h...
Equitable Community Engagement During A Global Pandemic And Beyond
This webpage discusses the significance of equitable community engagement within the world of urban and community design. It provides key questions to consid...
The Power Of Ecosystems For Problem-Solving
This article discusses the role of ecosystems in promoting social change, with a special consideration for community equity.
Well-Being Resources Should Extend Beyond a Crisis To Include PTSD
This article advocates for increasing available mental health support resources for healthcare workers facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Emphasis is placed on th...
Frontline COVID-19 Workers
This website provides a collection of stories and articles promoting mental health and wellness in the workplace for frontline workers. They help both indivi...
COVID-19 Taking a Disproportionate Toll on Female Healthcare Workers
This webpage discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the effect of healthcare worker burnout in female healthcare professionals. It reviews...
Burnout, Alcohol, PTSD: Health Workers Are Suffering
This webpage discusses the mental health issues facing healthcare workers in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a personal account of challenges spec...
‘A Sinking Ship’: Pandemic’s Mental Health Toll Continues to Roil Health Care Workers
This article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers. The article explores the effects of the COVID-19 pande...
Medical Burnout: Breaking Bad
This article discusses the medical burnout health care providers are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests five practical changes that can b...
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.
Trust In The Age Of COVID-19: The Role Of Governments, Businesses And Unicef
A conversation with Mr. Yannis Kotziagkiaouridis, a Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer, about the Edelman Trust Barometer and the implications of declin...
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.
Misinformation And Mistrust: Covid-19 Conversations On Race And Gender Equity
This video highlights the importance on building trust in community relationships to reduce the impact of COVID-19 misinformation
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 s...
Organizational Resilience And Making Meaning: During COVID 19 And Beyond
This presentation conveys information on organizational resilience strategies and techniques during COVID-19 and beyond.
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 Har...
How To Ensure Vaccine Equity, Build Trust And Strengthen Global Health Systems
This audio piece details how we can ensure vaccine equity, build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen health systems to prepare for the next pandemic...
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...
Pivoting Community Engagement During COVID-19
This article aims to address the lack of certain voices in discussions on COVID-19’s effects and suggests multiple methods on how to increase communit...
How To Perform A Needs Assessment For Your Community During COVID-19
This webpage provides critical tools and tips for conducting essential community needs assessments. It also offers examples of effective use of the tools and...
Community Health Assessment During COVID-19
This webpage outlines the significance of...
3 Tips for Conducting a Community Needs Assessment Amid COVID-19
This article provides guidance for non-profit organizations conducting community needs assessments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Needs, Perceptions And Demand: Community Assessment Tool
This webpage provides information and resources to be used in community assessment. Emphasis is placed on demands and perceptions, advocating for development...
Index Of Community Engagement Techniques
This webpage provides information and resources to be used in community engagement regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. It also links to an index document listin...
Vaccine Community Assessment: A Tool To Understanding Your Communities COVID-19 Vaccination Decisions And Needs
This webpage from the National Association of County and City Health Officials website provides information and strategies on community assessment for COVID-...
COVID-19: How To Include Marginalized And Vulnerable People In Risk Communication And Community Engagement
This webpage provides information on effective communication and methods for community engagement with vulnerable populations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic...
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 ar...
Civic Tech And Data Collaborative Toolkit
This toolkit is a collection of resources and tools for anyone interested in unleashing the power of local data and civic technology in their community. The...
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 com...
Addressing Community Needs And Preparing For The Secondary Impacts Of COVID-19
This webpage provides information on the importance of cross-sector collaboration to address multiple community needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. It...
Community Benefit – Community Health Needs Assessments During COVID Not Mission Impossible
This webpage provides information relevant to steps taken by the Catholic Health Association of the United States in its assessment of community benefits and...
Preparing A Community Needs Assessment During The COVID-19 Pandemic
This webpage provides nonprofit organizations with updates on issues to consider when it comes to community health needs assessments during the COVID-19 pand...
Creating The Next Community Health Needs Assessments In The Aftermath Of Covid
This webpage discusses the significance and methods for community health needs assessment in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights specific communi...
How to Conduct a Rapid Community Assessment
This resource discusses methods of community assessment for COVID-19. It highlights the importance of community assessment, as well as best practices used to...
Burnout Among Healthcare Workers in the COVID 19 Era: A Review of the Existing Literature
This journal article provides a review of the existing literature on burnout in the healthcare worker population in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through...
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 depres...
The Disproportionate Impact Of COVID-19 On Black Health Care Workers In The U.S.
This article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black healthcare workers. It provides a description of the unique challenges facing Black healt...
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...
School Nurse Deficit Deepens As States Seek Relief
This article discusses the nationwide impact of COVID-19 on school nurses. It describes how school nurses’ jobs have changed in light of the COVID-19...
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 wo...
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 ti...
KFF/Post Survey Reveals The Serious Mental Health Challenges Facing Frontline Health Care Workers A Year Into The COVID-19 Pandemic
This webpage provides information on the mental health risks facing frontline and healthcare workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides background inf...
How Health Care Leaders Can Support Their Frontline Workers
This webpage discusses strategies that can be adopted by healthcare leaders to support frontline workers. It provides a list of such strategies and explains...
Health Workers Face ‘indescribable’ Mental, Physical Exhaustion As Covid Fills Hospitals
This news article describes the stress and mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers within hospital systems. It provides a health...
Essential Workers More Likely To Be Diagnosed With A Mental Health Disorder During Pandemic
This webpage provides an introduction and statistical information on essential workers’ risks of developing or currently having an undiagnosed mental...
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 positionin...
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.
Community Health Needs Assessment For Charitable Hospital Organizations – Section 501(R)(3)
This webpage provides information on assessing community health needs and requirements imposed by section 501 (r) (3).
Community Health Assessments And Health Improvement Plans
This webpage provides insight on what community health is and what the benefits of a community health improvement plan are.
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 agenc...
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 pat...
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 a...
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...
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...
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 (...
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 prepare...
How Black Medical Experts Are Building Trust Within Black Communities About Vaccines
This webinar covers the misinformation and conspiracy theories around vaccines.
Building the Community Health Workforce of the Future, Presented by Partners in Health
In this webinar, panelists speak to the role of community health workers as trusted messengers on the front lines of primary care systems during the COVID-19...
Prioritizing Equity In COVID-19 Vaccinations: Perspectives From States And Public-Private Partnerships
This webinar covers promising state strategies to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in vaccination rates and public-private partnerships to enhance state...
Prioritizing Equity Video Series: Trustworthiness And Vaccines
This webinar explores misinformation, trustworthiness and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals.
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 dis...
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 governme...
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 fac...
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 Heal...
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 stra...
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.
How Kaiser Permanente Fights Inequity In The Face Of COVID-19
This video covers what Kaiser Permanente is doing to address inequities in health care.
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 comm...
Rebuilding Trust After COVID-19: U.S. Healthcare Experts Weigh In
This video piece looks at some of the lessons that the new U.S. administration can learn from the pandemic.
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 t...
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,...
Rural Community Health Toolkit: Conduct A Needs Assessment
This toolkit provides information on how to conduct a needs assessment and identify topics and issues relevant to a community.
Guide To Civic Tech And Data Ecosystem Mapping
This webpage leads to a report from the Civil Tech and Data Collaborative. The report focuses on the concept of ecosystem mapping, discussing its importance...
Community Engagement During The COVID-19 Pandemic And Beyond: A Guide For Community-Based Organizations
This report provides tools and information on community engagement in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. It defines community engagement, provides a blueprint...
The Practice Transformation Journey
This is a report describing ways in which the American Medical Association is supporting healthcare workers in light of increasing rates of burnout and other...
Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach To Professional Well-Being
This webpage introduces a report from the National Academy of Medicine, advocating for prioritization of clinician mental health to reduce rates of burnout....
Socioeconomic Privilege And Political Ideology Are Associated With Racial Disparity In COVID-19 Vaccination.
This brief report provides information on vaccine uptake and socioeconomic privilege associated with racial disparity in COVID-19 vaccination.
3.5 Million Social Needs Requests During COVID-19: What Can We Learn From 2-1-1?
This resource synthesizes the findings from more than 65 reports of 2-1-1 requests during COVID-19 into four broad observations and discusses their implicati...
Trauma-Informed Community Building And Engagement
This report serves as a guide for those seeking innovative, effective, and responsible approaches to supporting residents of low-income housing communities....
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 or...
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.
American Medical Association Coping With COVID-19 for Caregivers Survey National Comparison Report
This report provides a national summary of the preliminary results of the American Medical Association (AMA) ‘Coping with COVID-19 for Caregivers ...
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 prop...
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 syst...
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 h...
Building Trust In And Access To A Covid-19 Vaccine Within Communities Of Color And Tribal Nations
This policy brief advocates for building vaccine acceptance within communities of color and tribal nations through data transparency, tailored communications...
Engaging Immigrant And Racialized Communities In Community-Based Participatory Research During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges And Opportunities
This journal article discusses the concept of community-based participatory research and its use during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses the discussion on t...
Community Engagement During COVID: A Field Report From Seven CTSAs
This journal article provides a descriptive summary of how Clinical and Translational Science Awards leaders have used community engagement and community eng...
Community Engagement For COVID-19 Prevention And Control: A Rapid Evidence Synthesis
This journal article discusses the role of community engagement as a prevention and control tool against the spread of COVID-19. It provides background infor...
Supporting Frontline Staff During The COVID-19 Pandemic
This journal article provides information on the current understanding of healthcare worker response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also discusses ways in whic...
Racial And Gender Discrimination Predict Mental Health Outcomes Among Healthcare Workers Beyond Pandemic-Related Stressors: Findings From a Cross-Sectional Survey
This journal article provides data on the impact of race and gender on mental health outcomes in healthcare workers. It specifically studies the association...
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...
Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Nurse Burnout in the U.S.
This journal article presents data regarding the incidence and prevalence of burnout in nurses. It discusses the root causes of burnout in nurses and the imp...
Healthcare Worker’s Emotions, Perceived Stressors And Coping Mechanisms During The COVID-19 Pandemic
This journal article provides an introduction to research on healthcare workers’ attitude and coping mechanisms in facing risks inherent to COVID-19....
Compassion Fatigue Among Healthcare, Emergency And Community Service Workers: A Systematic Review
This journal article provides a systematic review of the existing literature on compassion fatigue and healthcare worker burnout. It emphasizes and explains...
Women In Healthcare Experiencing Occupational Stress And Burnout During COVID-19: A Rapid Review
This journal article aims to identify the causes of occupational stress and burnout in women in medicine, nursing and other health professions during the COV...
What Support Do Frontline Workers Want? A Qualitative Study of Health and Social Care Workers’ Experiences and Views of Psychosocial Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This journal article provides background information and data concerning the mental health status and needs of frontline and social care workers in the UK. T...
Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes by Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
This journal examines the association between race, ethnicity, socioeconomic determinants and COVID-19 outcomes.
Disparities in National and State Estimates of COVID-19 Vaccination Receipt and Intent to Vaccinate by Race/Ethnicity, Income, and Age Group Among Adults ≥ 18 Years, United States
This journal provides information on developing effective strategies for ameliorating racial/ethnic COVID-19 inequities.
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 app...
The Importance Of Community Engagement On COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy: Lessons From Two California Pilot Programs
This article discusses what a successful vaccination plan looks like, specifically analyzing two pilot programs in California that offer compelling lessons i...
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 pre...
Racial Disparities In COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Building Trust To Protect Nursing Home Staff And Residents
This journal article describes a series of interventions that Genesis implemented to improve vaccine confidence among employees, particularly Black and Hispa...
The Burden Of Burnout Among Healthcare Professionals Of Intensive Care Units And Emergency Departments During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review
This journal article evaluates the burnout prevalence among healthcare workers (HCWs) in intensive care units (ICUs) and emergency departments (EDs) during t...
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 publi...
Reducing Burnout and Resignations Among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment
This journal article discusses how government agencies around the world struggle to retain frontline workers as high job demands and low job resources contri...
Prevalence of Depression, Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This journal article discusses updated prevalence estimates for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among health care workers duri...
Prevalence And Correlates Of Stress And Burnout Among U.S. Healthcare Workers During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Cross-Sectional Survey Study
This journal article provides a comprehensive view of how stress and burnout during the pandemic have impacted healthcare team members.
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,...
Burnout On The Frontline: The Impact Of COVID-19 On Emergency Department Staff Wellbeing
This journal article studies the rate and degree of burnout present in the emergency department (ED) staff at St. James hospital Dublin (SJH) and at Cork Uni...
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 et...
Building Trust In American Hospital-Community Development Projects: A Scoping Review
This journal article aims to understand the current state of the small but growing literature that engages the intersection of hospitals and trust within com...
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 op...
Build Trust in Digital Health
Rapid deployment of digital health approaches in response to COVID-19, combined with the enactment of emergency powers by governments, has resulted in data p...
Enhancing Public Trust in COVID-19 Vaccination: The Role of Governments
This journal article addresses the role of governments in promoting confidence in the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines through effective communi...
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 restrictio...
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-...
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 attachme...
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 appl...
Trust Is The Engine Of Change: A Conceptual Model For Trust Building In Health Systems
This article examines trust at the theory level and within community-based health systems. It considers reciprocity as central to the process of trust-buildi...
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 o...
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 mode...
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 innovatio...
Building Community Trust To Improve Participation In COVID-19 Testing And Contact Tracing
This guide highlights culturally competent mechanisms and transparent practices to build trust across vulnerable communities. It features relevant statistics...
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 regul...
Coronavirus Emergency Management Best Practices
This data bank is a compilation of the best practices and lessons learned that communities faced fighting COVID-19.
What Is Public Health Law?
This factsheet defines public health law and explores sources of legal authority including constitutions, legislation, regulations, and case law.
Inclusive Virtual Community Engagement During COVID-19
This guide provides a written plan and resource list on how to implement inclusive virtual community engagement during 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 r...
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 e...
How Do We Lead On Equity? Hint: Avoid A Routine Approach And Focus On Building Trust
This resource highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity for academic institutions to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. Two key...
Strategies For Public Engagement To Combat Mistrust And Build COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence
This webpage outlines six public engagement strategies to combat mistrust and build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.
Your Public Health Workers Are Not Okay
This blog discusses the various elements that contribute to frontline worker burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bringing The Invisible Battle Into View: Understanding Health Care Stressors And Mental Well-Being In COVID-19 Frontline Workers
This report details how COVID-19 has amplified preexisting challenges of burnout and distress and provides a list of proactive approaches that healthcare org...
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 discus...
To Protect Frontline Workers During And After COVID-19, We Must Define Who They Are
This report highlights the need to better define who frontline workers are in order to prioritize their safety and determine the cost and eligibility for pan...
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 bac...
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 t...
School Nurses Feel Like ‘the Enemy’
This article explains how school nurses have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Public Health Workforce Resilience Resource Library
This library provides resources and trainings to help public health workers build resilience.
Helping Frontline Workers Cope With Stress During COVID-19: Actions for Peers
This webpage highlights actions that peers can take to help frontline workers cope with stress during COVID-19.
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...
Half Of Health Workers Report Burnout Amid COVID-19
The article outlines the impacts of burnout and stress on health care workers. It describes effects on physicians and residents, disproportionate impacts amo...
‘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.
COVID-19 Keeps Delivering Lessons About Health Care Worker Burnout. Will We Learn Them?
This article describes the mental health impacts of burnout among health care workers and steps health care leaders can take to implement changes.
Combating Burnout Among Nurses And Frontline Healthcare Workers
This blog explains the impact of burnout on clinicians and their view on the most pressing challenges.
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy By Creating A Circle Of Trust
This vaccine hesitancy blog post discusses how Wagma Mohmand and Utah Muslim Civic League’s Luna Banuri are building on trust to vaccinate and support...
Closing COVID-19 Equity Gaps In Schools
This articles discusses COVID-19 equity gaps and next steps for educational equity.
Building Trust In COVID-19 Vaccines in Communities of Color Through Community Investment
This interview with Dr. Karen Emmons and Dr. Bisola Ojikutu explores how community investments can be implemented to assist in building vaccine trust in comm...
Leveraging Trust in Primary Care to Promote Behavior Change During COVID-19
This blog post discusses the role of primary care practitioners in advancing vaccine uptake and equity through existing trust between them and the communitie...
The Principles Of Trustworthiness
This toolkit outlines the principles of trustworthiness, details reasons and causes for mistrust of the health care system and offers suggested actions that...
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...
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 util...
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,...
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 Wash...
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...
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...
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...
Building Organizational Trust During A Pandemic
Using insight from Scripps Health, this article explores evidence-based strategies for building trust among physicians, staff, and patients during the pandem...
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...
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 in...
Bring ‘Sources Of Healing’ To The Community: Building Confidence In COVID-19 Vaccines
This article covers “The Trust Factor: Vaccines and Communities”, a virtual town hall meeting held to discuss strategies to help raise confiden...
Building Trust: COVID-19 Vaccine Protection For The Black Community
While providing historical context for Black community’s skepticism of the medical community, this article explores vaccine mistrust among African-Ame...
Lessons From Journalists on Building Trust With Local Communities During Crises
This article offers community organizations a novel perspective from the field of journalism on how to build trust with partner communities, focusing on thre...
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 i...
Guidance for Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs)
This website offers COVID-19 prevention guidance for institutions of higher education (IHEs). This resources includes guidance regarding testing, social dist...
ARP Toolkit Guidance on Community Engagement
This document names five reasons to put community engagement at the front of their American Rescue Plan plans, provides a four-step plan for public participa...
Thriving Campuses: A Campus Guide for Well-Being, Equity and Thriving Together
Thriving Campuses: A Campus Guide for Well-Being, Equity and Thriving Together aims to help stakeholders advance a vision for thriving on their campuses and...
Building Trust: Resources
This repository of research, blogs, tools and news about addressing trust in health care is organized by topic area: health equity, misinformation, organizat...
Interim COVID-19 Report
This report of the United Way of New York City COVID-19 Community Fund details activities of the fund which focus on meeting immediate needs of New Yorkers t...
Insights into Health Equity After COVID-19
U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, and Affordable Care Act expert Daniel Dawes, JD , offer lessons from history and a path forward to help heal our...
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 fro...
COVID-19 GalterGuide
This platform provides interactive data dashboards, and information and resources related to COVID-19 research.
COVID-19 Employer Resources
This website provides briefs, town halls and webinars, videos, articles and webinars, apps, news media and other resources for employers from the National Al...
Learn More About the COVID-19 Vaccines
This website provides information about the Delta variant, making the COVID-19 vaccines, the vaccines and side effects, getting vaccinated and booster shots....
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...
COVID-19 Projection
This interactive dashboard provides data on cumulative deaths, daily deaths, vaccine coverage, hospital resource use, infections and testing, mask use and so...
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...
Planet Earth Reboot: Our Mental Wellness as we Emerge from COVID-19
This roundtable discussion about mental wellness and COVID-19 is presented by America Salutes You and the Entertainment Industries Council.
Addressing Two Epidemics: COVID and Violence
This blog discusses how violence trends with epidemics and pandemics, and challenges presented by COVID-19.
California Sick Leave: Extra Time for COVID is Ending
A California state law signed in March 2021 required companies with more than 25 employees to offer as much as 80 hours of supplemental sick leave related to...
State Actions on COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements and Verification
This blog post highlights specific examples of state level vaccine requirements enacted for state employees.
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 (P...
Updates and Resources on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2)
This is a collection of resources related to COVID-19 from the American Hospital Association. This page includes an archive of podcasts and webinars, latest...
Amazon’s COVID-19 Blog
This blog provides regular updates on how Amazon is supporting employees, customers, communities, and researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Vaccine Education
This webpage is intended to support efforts to educate diverse audiences on COVID-19 vaccinations. It includes a searchable database of materials that users...
Critical updates on COVID-19
This webpage provides important updates on COVID-19. It includes resources and guidance on a variety of topics, including vaccinations, surge planning, preve...
COVID Minutes Podcast
This educational podcast series by UT Health San Antonio explores evolving issues in medicine, healthcare, and education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Action Agenda Leaders on the Front Line: Why Social Entrepreneurs Are Needed Now More than Ever
This webpage provides the link to a report published by the World Economic Forum on organizational leadership during the pandemic.
Learning from COVID-19 and Preparing for the Future: Reflections from a Collaborative Partnership
This webpage from the Rockefeller Foundation reports on organizational lessons learned and assesses the cross-organizational collaborative efforts deployed i...
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...
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...
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, a...
PIH U.S. COVID-19 Resource Library
This website provides resources and information related to COVID-19 with a focus on equity and social justice. Links are provided to articles, presentations,...
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 o...
NAMD (National Association of Medicaid Directors) COVID-19
This website provides links to a collection of blog posts from the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD). These blog posts outline the NAMDȁ...
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 St...
COVID-19 Resources for Indian Country
This webpage links resources and information relevant to the Indigenous community on COVID-19 from various federal, local, and tribal health authorities.
COVID-19 Community Response: Emerging Themes Across Sentinel Communities
This webpage provides a collection of stories from communities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reader gets an introduction to nine communities, thei...
This Pandemic Expert Wants You to Join The Fight Against Coronavirus From The Safety Of Your Home
This article provides information on participatory surveillance and the role that individuals can play in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 through the use o...
This Nonprofit is Helping Communities Stop Pandemics in Their Tracks
This webpage is a news story on a nonprofit organization, Ending Pandemics, and its efforts in tackling the spread of COVID-19 in many countries, across many...
COVID-19 Response
This webpage provides an update on the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific responses activit...
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 COV...
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.
ATS COVID-19 Resources
This webpage provides resources and information related to the American Thoracic Society’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Links to articles, video...
COVID-19 Resources for Essential Hospitals
This website provides resources and literature on best practices in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic for essential hospitals and healthcare systems. These reso...
Telehealth Resource Center: News
This webpage provides information on the COVID-19 and Telemedicine FAQs town hall hosted by the American Medical Association (AMA) on April 9, 2020. Linked t...
Long COVID: How Becoming a Patient Shaped My Thinking as a Futurist
This webpage shares information on a digital health futurist’s journey with long COVID-19 (post-acute sequelae of COVID-19). Maneesh Juneja interacts...
#Turnthepageproject
This webpage provides links to personal profiles of various advocates for youth, community leadership, education, and mental health. The advocates featured a...
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 Ok...
Engagement Tool and Resource Repository
This webpage is a searchable peer-to-peer repository which includes resources that aim to inform future research. It provides a wide-ranging list of current...
Social Media And Research Toolkit
This website houses the social media and research toolkit (SMART) with the aim of increasing patient engagement and involvement in research through the use o...
Race and the Patient-Physician Relationship in 2021
This article discusses how race influences doctor-patient relationships, contributes health inequities, and suggests strategies for improving relationships a...
The Color of COVID-19: Disparate Impact, Inequitable Response
This collection examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color and the inequitable pandemic response. It features a...
Maternal Health Inequities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This issue brief presents challenges, promising advances, and opportunities to addressing maternal health inequities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic....
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.
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 memb...
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...
COVID-19 General Resources
This webpage contains a list of free COVID-19 resources curated by the National Rural Health Association for supporting rural communities.
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 Tribal Advocacy Tools
This advocacy toolkit is intended to support messaging on COVID-19 and related legislation to promote health in tribal communities.
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.
Community Health Workers and COVID-19: Three Ways to Support Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
This issue brief provides an overview of how Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have been affected by COVID-19 and suggests three ways that communit...
Infographic: Top COVID-19 Resources for CHWs
This infographic provides an overview of what community health workers reported as the best sources of information on COVID-19 and the biggest challenges in...
Insights on COVID-19 From Community Health Worker State Leaders
This article presents the findings of a focus group with community health worker (CHW) leaders on CHWs roles in addressing COVID-19 and how the pandemic has...
CHWs in the Black Community in the Age of COVID-19: Frontline and Essential Responders
This slide deck discusses the role of community health workers (CHWs) in Black communities, how to support CHWs with addressing COVID-19, and the importance...
Advancing CHW Engagement in COVID-19 Response Strategies
This playbook provides a framework for a continuum of community health worker engagement, synthesizes CHW programs’ best practices, and provides polic...
Community Health Workers in the Time of COVID-19
This slide deck presents lessons learned from community health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Race and Health: Kaiser Health News
This webpage compiles the latest Kaiser health news stories on race and health.
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 coverag...
COVID-19 Data in Motion
This webpage provides frequently updated information on COVID-19 data trends in the United States, including a daily-updated video with the latest data. User...
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. I...
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 vaccina...
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 va...
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...
COVID-19 Resources: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
This webpage provides regularly updated projections on a number of COVID-19 measures, including reported deaths, excess deaths, vaccine hesitancy, and more....
Telehealth
This webpage presents a list of resources to assist the health care community with implementation of safe, effective, equitable, and patient-centered telehea...
COVID-19 Data Tracker: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This tool shows the reported deaths from COVID-19 globally and for each state using Shewhart charts.
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 a...
Accessibility Ideas for Distance Learning During COVID-19
This blog post provides advice on how to use accessibility features to support student learning.
Public-Private Disease Surveillance Partnerships are What’s Needed to Stop the Next Pandemic
This article discusses the need for and potential of partnerships between private organizations and governments to develop surveillance systems in order to p...
Our Mental Wellness as We Emerge from COVID-19
In this webinar, Bob Okun and Marie Dyak host a discussion with panelists about mental health following the COVID-19 pandemic from multiple perspectives of t...
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....
Healthier Businesses Start with Healthier Communities
This report shares best practices, strategies, and research on how to reopen businesses safely and ensure customer and employee health.
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 cat...
Common Indicators of Success
This chart is intended to help state, territory, local, and tribal governments with COVID-19 efforts. It provides a short overview of indicators of success a...
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 fo...
Rural Vaccine Uptake
This webpage introduces an initiative created to promote COVID-19 vaccination in rural America.
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 infecti...
Zip Code Level Visualization of Vaccine Intention
This interactive map shows vaccine hesitancy by county in the United States over time.
COVID-19: Healthcare Workers: Information on COVID-19
This webpage focuses on healthcare workers and provides guidance and information on how to care for patients, prevent and control COVID-19, safely operate he...
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 commu...
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.
How Health Departments are Addressing Substance Use Disorder and Overdose During a Pandemic
This blog post focuses on Seattle-King County, where communities are experiencing a drug overdose crisis. It discusses steps that health departments can take...
Views from the Big Cities: Columbus and Maricopa County
This webinar is the sixth in the series, Views from Big Cities, and shares how Columbus, Ohio and Maricopa County, Arizona are fighting against the COVID-19...
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-1...
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...
Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Case Investigators and Contact Tracers
This free online training is intended to support the rapid training of COVID-19 case investigators and contact tracers.
Combat Hate Crime Resources
This hate crime toolkit is intended for community-based organizations, community leaders, and hate crime victims to help respond to hate crime incidents. It...
COVID-19 Community Corps In-Language Resource Guide
This spreadsheet presents a collection of resources in various languages curated by community members, leaders, and organizations to help improve the health...
Coronavirus COVID-19: Protecting & Enabling Health Care Workers
This webpage provides the latest information about how hospital and health system leaders can work to protect their health care staff as well as information...
AMA, Ad Council COVID-19 Resources to Boost Vaccine Confidence
This webpage contains a collection of articles, websites, guides, webinars, and more to help support physicians whose patients may have questions or concerns...
The Role of Data Collection in the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webpage offers a list of projects, initiatives, and organizations that are collecting data on marginalized and minoritized communities during the pandem...
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.
Impact of COVID-19 on Minoritized and Marginalized Communities
This webpage provides a collection of resources that present the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health inequity and disparities for vulnerable groups, i...
6 Ways to Educate Rural Communities About the COVID-19 Vaccines
This article provides six recommendations on how to maximize impact when educating rural Americans about the COVID-19 vaccines.
The Impact of Childhood Adversity on Health and COVID-19
This article discusses the potential impacts of COVID-19 on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and health outcomes later on in life.
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 f...
New Initiative Aims to Build a Model Open COVID-19 Patient Data Registry Network
This blog post introduces a new initiative that was created to allow researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and journalists to better understand the impact...
Webinar: Organizational Resilience, Recovery, and Capacity
This webinar is part of the series Re-designing for a High-Value, Equitable Health Care System in the Time of COVID. It explores opportunities for building o...
The Other Epidemic: Fatal Police Shootings in the Time of COVID-19
This report presents national and state-level data on fatal police shootings since 2015. It provides recommendations on reducing funding and the role of poli...
Children and COVID-19 Vaccinations Trends
This slide deck provides American Academy of Pediatrics’ analysis of COVID-19 vaccination trends in children.
AAMC Guide to COVID-19 Tests and Testing
This guide focuses on the role of COVID-19 tests in surveilling and controlling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides answers to commonly asked qu...
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 te...
Care for the Caregivers
This website is intended for caregivers to help ensure the health and safety of caregivers and their loved ones. It provides resources on how to build person...
Mapping COVID Data
This webpage contains a collection of interactive maps created and curated by Yale University to allows users to visualize the state, spread, and impact of t...
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,...
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.
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 in...
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 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...
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 communit...
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 reso...
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...
COVID-19 the Family, State and Federal Policy: Lessons Learned in New England
This report captures insights, lessons, and recommendations for family-centered policy and practice and how to support families in this new COVID-19 context,...
Webinars – NACCHO
This webpage provides information regarding past, current, and upcoming webinars from NACCHO and their partners. Users can register for upcoming webinars and...
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.
Public COVID-19 Resources
This data bank provides coronavirus response resources from a variety of organizations that are part of the COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs....
Resilient American Communities Tools
This repository was developed for use in response to specific needs stated by community leaders on COVID-19.
COVID-19 Vaccine Resources
This repository provides COVID-19 vaccine resources including tools for leaders, fact sheets, data, surveys, posters, and infographics.
COVID, Race, and the Revolution
This data bank contains an archive of journals and articles from the newsletter, COVID, Race and the Revolution, which centered around finding ways to transf...
COVID-19: Resources for Indian Country
This data bank provides COVID-19 resources specifically for tribal nations, including advocacy materials, news, and funding opportunities.
COVID-19 Resources
This webpage provides a compilation of COVID-19 vaccine equity resources, publications, webinars, and initiatives.
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 reposi...
Young People and Long COVID
This resource discusses effects of, data on and lessons to be learned from young people with long COVID-19.
The (Post-COVID) Future of Heart Disease Prevention
This YouTube video provides information on the (Post-COVID) future of heart disease prevention.
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...
Framework for Global Action
This webpage provides a framework for a global action plan for COVID-19 response. The framework aims to encourage world leaders to take the steps needed to e...
COVID-19 Data Tracker CDC
This webpage features daily updated maps and charts tracking cases, deaths, and trends of COVID-19 in the United States.
CV19 Checkup: About the Service
This website provides information about harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to enable older adults across the wor...
Better for It: COVID-19 Vaccine Toolkits
This webpage provides culturally relevant, science-based and factual guides on COVID-19 vaccination.
Nationwide Survey of AANHPI on COVID-19
This report provides a press release, summary and powerpoint on a comprehensive nationwide study focused on COVID-19 vaccination-related attitudes and behavi...
ANA (American Nurses Association): COVID-19
This website provides a variety of resources on how to combat COVID-19, monitor COVID-19 and prevent infection.
Vaccine Resources for Providers
This website provides vaccine resources for providers, information on the delta variant and an explanation of benefits and risks for vaccinating children....
COVID-19 Information
This data bank is focused on the health and safety of communities and provides information on mask guidance, testing & contact tracing, community commitm...
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...
COVIDGuidance.org
This webpage features information on COVID-19 guidance from trusted, credible sources specifically regarding vaccination, COVID-19 impact, general reopening...
Managing Harmful Vaccine Content on YouTube
This YouTube blog describes how medical misinformation policies on YouTube have been updated with new guidelines on vaccines.
Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webpage features a collection of COVID-19 resources useful to philanthropic, and philanthropic-serving organizations.
Equity, Systems Change and Sustainability: Lessons from Communities
This report summarizes cradle-to-career outcomes from the Strive Challenge Fund communities. The report highlights specific community examples of activities...
Coronavirus Disease: COVID-19 Recent Articles
This collection of resources from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation includes research, resources, and blog posts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 pu...
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 h...
COVID-19 Tribal Resource Center
This webpage from the National Indian Health Board highlights COVID-19 resources that will be informative and helpful to Tribes and Tribal members.
COVID-19 and the State of the STD Field
This webpage summarizes findings from surveys of health department STD programs, DIS, and STD clinics in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vaccines
This is a collection of stories from Kaiser Health News related to vaccines.
MSM COVID-19 Experts
This webpage lists Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) faculty and staff with particular expertise related to COVID-19. The webpage includes a list of experts...
COVID-19 Guidance and Resources
This website lists documents, tools, and resources collected by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Those resources offer information to hospital...
The Conversation/La Conversacion
This website features recorded Latinx doctors, nurses, and promotoras answering common COVID-19 questions.
COVID-19 and Business – Subject Matter Experts
This webpage highlights Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business faculty and staff with expertise in a variety of subjects related to coro...
Using Timeliness Metrics to Track Progress and Identify Gaps in Disease Surveillance
This article describes how tracking the timeliness of disease outbreak detection, verification, notification, and response can provide insight into surveilla...
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,...
US Coronavirus: COVID-19 Numbers are Improving. Don’t Let History Repeat Itself with Yet Another Resurgence, Doctors Say
This 2021 article explains that while COVID-19 cases are declining, there is still potential for resurgence.
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...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information & Resource Hub
The webpage from the Association of Black Cardiologists features recorded webinars, FAQs, and links to resources regarding COVID-19.
Stay Healthy and Informed- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Library
This is a COVID-19 resource library hosted by Anthem Insurance. Resources can be filtered and sorted by type and recency.
Responding to COVID-19
This is a detailed timeline highlighting actions taken by the American Academy of Nursing, as well as links to resources useful in response to the COVID-19 p...
Information and Updates on COVID-19
This website lists resources and the latest guidance related to COVID-19 for preventive medicine professionals.
Prioritizing Equity
This multi-part video series from the American Medical Association outlines how COVID-19 and other determinants of health impact marginalized communities, pu...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Hub
This website lists resources and the latest guidance related to COVID-19 for American medical colleges.
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 i...
The Return-to-Office Quandary
This article discusses the need for clear, measurable guidelines for office re-openings and presents various potential metrics that would help determine when...
Pandemic to Prosperity: South – Focusing on the South to Lead the Way in Pandemic Recovery
This report provides a status update on how Southern states in the United States have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The key indicators are organize...
Pandemic to Prosperity – January 21, 2021: One Year After COVID-19 Announced on U.S. Soil
This report provides an overview how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected employment, businesses, education, mental health, health disparities, health insuranc...
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.
Southern New Jersey Equitable Approach to Overcoming the Pandemic
This resource summarizes Southern New Jersey’s approach to equitable COVID-19 vaccination in populations at high risk of dying from COVID-19 and among...
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...
#COVIDSafeZones: Workplaces
This webpage includes an open letter with recommendations, an op ed and call to action for private sector leaders to create #COVIDSafeZones in America’...
Greater Than COVID: The Conversation
This webpage provides FAQ videos by health care experts that address the most common questions about the COVID vaccine, as well as social graphics, flyers, s...
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 nega...
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...
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 a...
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 va...
Families USA Spearheads Strategic Initiative to Galvanize Action on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
This article focuses on Families USA’s initiative to help ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. It highlights the importance of prioritizing v...
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 fo...
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...
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.
COVID-19: The Essential Guide to Leading and Working, Remotely
This guide provides Decker Communications’ recommended best practices for leading and working from remote locations.
Coronavirus and COVID-19
This webpage provides information on COVID-19 and COVID-19 related services that Kaiser Permanente provides for members.
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 project...
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, a...
Resources to Promote the COVID-19 Vaccine for Children and Teens
This toolkit provides a variety of sample Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter messages and digital resources that can be used to support COVID-19 vaccination ef...
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...
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...
Worker Safety & Health During COVID-19 Pandemic: Rights & Resources
This document is intended for workers, their advocates and allies, and policymakers to help ensure worker safety and health during the COVID-19 pandemic. It...
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 vuln...
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 t...
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 pandem...
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, includin...
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 m...
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,...
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...
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 comm...
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...
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...
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 wou...
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...
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 historica...
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 s...
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...
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 acc...
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 traje...
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 modernizati...
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 mainl...
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...
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 p...
Community, Work, and School: Information for Where You Live, Work, Learn, and Play
This webpage provides guidance and strategies to help protect for students, teachers, staff, and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources are cate...
From Concern to Confidence: How Physicians Can Build Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines
This document is intended to help physicians build trust in COVID-19 vaccines. It provides six actionable items, examine of effective messaging, sample langu...
Creating Vaccine Equity
This webpage advocates for the importance of equity-focused practices in increasing vaccination rates within communities of color.
Language Choice about COVID-19 Vaccines Can Save Lives
This blog provides information on the importance of language and word choice when providing information on the COVID-19 vaccine, including the use of positiv...
Engagement Tools Offer Tips for Engaging Virtually
This blog highlights PCORI tools for virtual patient and stakeholder engagement, including Engagement Tool and Resource Repository, a searchable, peer-to-pee...
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 st...
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 i...
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Virtual Communities
This online platform allows NACCHO members to engage with peers. Users can explore and create communities, participate in discussions, share resources, and m...
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 su...
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 op...
Psychologically Healthy Workforce Scoresheet
This worksheet is intended to help businesses measure their progress towards building a psychologically healthy workforce.
‘Surviving a Pandemic’ Podcast: The Language of COVID & Vaccines
In this podcast, host Frank Sesno talks with Dr. Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, and Dr. Frank Luntz, renowned political po...
Focus Group Participants Reveal How They Overcame Doubts about COVID Vaccines
This webinar presents the findings of a focus group of formerly vaccine hesitant people on how to build vaccine confidence. It highlights recurring themes, c...
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, opportuni...
Disinformation in the Pandemic: Law & Policy Briefing
This webinar features guest speakers Timothy Caulfield and Brian C. Castrucci, who discuss disinformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role o...
Tools for Building Institutional Trust
This webinar features guest speaker, Jennifer Stephens, who explains the seven dimensions of trust, presents the findings on which dimensions influence how m...
Insights – Building Trust
This webpage compiles various stories of building trust. It shares the perspectives of physicians, community health workers, patients, researchers, and more....
Webinars – Building Trust
This webpage contains a collection of webinars around the topic of building trust. Each webinar features experts who share their experiences, insights, and b...
Trust Practices
This website offers a repository of resources and tools to help build a relationship of trust between patients and physicians, as well as between clinicians...
Vaccine Confident Toolkit
This initiative promotes vaccine confidence and increases vaccination rates in the United States. The initiative provides information and resources to help i...
States Explore the Use of Disadvantage Indices to Advance Health Equity in COVID-19 Vaccinations and Beyond
This brief summarizes the results of a workshop on states’ experiences using disadvantage indices to inform their COVID-19 vaccination efforts. It als...
Webinar: Using Disadvantage Indices to Advance Health Equity: Lessons Learned from State COVID-19 Response Efforts
This webinar presents lessons learned from state COVID-19 vaccination efforts and explores how disadvantage indices, such as the CDC’s Social Vulnerab...
Changes to Telehealth Policy, Delivery, and Outcomes in Response to COVID-19
This report provides an overview of telehealth in the context of COVID-19, and how it is and can continue to adapt to meet the changing needs for healthcare....
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 in...
Toolkit for Pregnant People and New Parents
This webpage is intended for pregnant people, new parents, and people who serve these communities. It contains a collection of resources, tools, and informat...
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, publ...
Esperanza Health Centers Work to Deliver COVID-19 Vaccines
This webpage focuses on the efforts of Esperanza Health Centers in southwest Chicago to ensure that their community has equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines...
King County Monitors the Ongoing Economic, Social, and Health Effects of COVID-19
This webpage highlights the ongoing efforts of King County to address the COVID-19 pandemic and monitory the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigation...
Health Departments: Information on COVID-19
This webpage provides a collection of COVID-19 resources, tools, and guidelines for health departments on a variety of topics, including contact tracing, inf...
Healthcare Workers: Information on COVID-19
This webpage provides a collection of COVID-19 resources on a variety of topics for healthcare workers, including patient care, vaccine clinical resources, i...
COVID-19 Vaccine Resources for Community-Based Organizations
This webpage is intended for community-based organizations and provides a list of resources to help promote COVID-19 vaccination, address vaccine hesitancy,...
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 i...
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 com...
COVID-19 Dashboard
This interactive dashboard displays the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. It presents frequently updated data on the incidence and prevalence...
Information About COVID-19 Vaccines
This webpage provides answers to frequently asked questions regarding the COVID-19 vaccines, advice on how to build COVID-19 vaccine confidence and demand, a...
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 p...
OSHA Must Protect COVID Whistleblowers Who File Retaliation Complaints
This article focuses on the actions of OSHA (or lack thereof) to protect workers who filed COVID-19-related whistleblower complaints. It highlights the impor...
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...
An Ethical Plan for Ending the Pandemic and Restarting the Economy
This webinar features guest speaker, Danielle Allen, who explores ways that we can address both the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and the economic crisis using ...
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...
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...
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 vaccin...
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, b...
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 soc...
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 r...
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 As...
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, overcrowdin...
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 i...
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.
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 recommendatio...
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...
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.
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 pandemi...
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,...
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 highligh...
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...
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 discus...
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...
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 univer...
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...
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 collect...
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 stude...
Coronavirus and Latino Health Equity
This website contains a collection of resources and culturally relevant stories, infographics, webinars, and other tools addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in...
Hurricane Katrina’s Lessons for Transformative Recovery
This post uses Hurricane Katrina as an example of recovery that did not fundamentally transform racial equity and compares the after effects to post-COVID ec...
How Should Local Leaders Use their American Rescue Plan Funding?
This analysis advocates for local leaders to use American Rescue Plan funds to stabilize their communities, strategize together to invest in future prosperit...
Equitable COVID-19 Recovery – Invest Health Webinar with National League of Cities
In this webinar with the National League of Cities, speakers and participants discuss a transparent process that centers equity and racial justice in economi...
Civic Infrastructure for Recovery
This article identifies places where progress is being made (and how that progress is being funded) to ensure that civic infrastructure plays a vital part in...
ARPA: An Opportunity to Support Neglected Areas of Local Well Being
This article, beginning on page 18, advocates for the use of the American Rescue Plan Act funds to address equity and structural issues by supporting minorit...
American Rescue Plan: A Generational Opportunity
This fact sheet provides information about the eligibility and application process for The American Rescue Plan Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery F...
Actionable Ideas for Economic Recovery in American Cities
This compendium of essays offers actionable ideas to create jobs and grow quality businesses, further job preparation and wage gains, and promote vibrant, co...
Spotlight on Local Recovery Efforts
This resource highlights local recovery efforts related to COVID-19 response and the receipt of American Rescue Plan Act funding.
COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Relief
This webpage provides tools, resources and events for cities to fight back against COVID-19. Aimed at local leaders, this resource also includes pandemic res...
How to Spend ARPA Funds With an Equity Lens
This article describes the importance of data to the equitable distribution of American Rescue Plan funds.
How Have Communities Been Faring During COVID-19? And How Will Lessons Learned Inform Future Response and Planning?
This article summarizes analysis findings to highlight keys to community response and gaps needed to fill for future disaster response.
COVID-19 Metro Recovery Watch
This website offers a suite of resources to inform local and state recovery strategies in ways that link near-term resilience to longer-term economic transfo...
Counties Use ARP Funds to Advance Equity
This National Association of Counties article summarizes a presentation from their annual conference focusing on how the American Rescue Plan funds can be us...
American Rescue Plan: Strategies for Local Leaders
This suite of resources provides local leaders with strategies, tactics, and policy recommendations for using American Rescue Plan funds. The list of resourc...
Pain in the Nation: How High Rates of Suicide, Drugs and Overdose Deaths Require a Comprehensive Resiliency Strategy
This Congressional briefing is intended to help improve understanding of the policies and programs that impact mental health and substance use systems in the...
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 dis...
Messaging Resources
This collection of curated messaging resources from the Public Health Communications Collaborative are designed to help public health leaders deliver fact-ba...
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 tr...
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...
Pain in the Nation Series Update: Alcohol, Drug and Suicide Deaths at Record Highs
This annual report is part of the Pain in the Nation report series, and presents data on mental health and wellbeing in the United States. It examines trends...
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...
Find Essential Resources Near You
This tool helps users find nearby COVID-19 medical and support facilities, including testing locations, medical facilities, pharmacies, mental health care pr...
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 i...
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 a...
Facing Uncertainty: The Challenges of COVID-19 in the Workplace
This report provides employer data about the impact of the pandemic on six different types of pandemic-related workplace practices including testing, contact...
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...
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 d...
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...
Prioritizing a Psychologically Healthy Workforce in the Time of COVID-19
This webinar features guest speaker, Cosette Taillac, who shares insights on the impact of COVID-19 on the workforce, the power of a psychologically healthy...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Social and Mental Health
This webinar features Dr. Jennifer Christian-Herman and Dr. Anand Shah, who examine the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and offer strategies and tips...
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 pa...
COVID-19 Return to Work Playbook
This playbook is intended for businesses and business leaders to help maintain a safe and healthy workforce. It includes guidance, recommendations, tools, re...
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...
Thrive at Work – Resource Center: COVID-19
This webpage provide a compilation of resources and tools to help businesses engage employees and leadership and promote workplace health during the COVID-19...
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 i...
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 plann...
Grassroots Efforts in Southwest Kansas Educate Refugee Communities about COVID-19
This article shares the story of Physician Assistant Erin Keeley and Doctor Rachael Svaty, who helped overcome language barriers in COVID-19 information and...
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 insi...
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 d...
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 act...
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, spec...
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 racis...
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,...
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...
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 de...
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 pande...
The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use
This issue brief looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected mental health outcomes and created new barriers for people already suffering from...
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Status, Intent, and Perceived Access for Noninstitutionalized Adults, by Disability Status – National Immunization Survey Adult COVID Module, United States, May 30 – June 26, 2021
This Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report focuses on disparities in COVID-19 vaccine access for persons with disabilities; despite being less likely to repo...
Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report looks at how racial and ethnic disparities in the economy are showing up in the COVID-19 pandemic and in the public policy response to the pandem...
COVID-19 Response & Recovery
This webpage offers a collection of COVID-19policy solutions that prioritize health equity. It includes blog posts with immediate solutions for communities a...
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...
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 Surve...
Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of College Students
This journal article describes survey results regarding the physical, emotional, and social impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. colleges students.
College Student Mental Health Equity during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Since the onset of COVID-19, college students across the U.S. have grappled with massive disruptions to their education and, as a result, a nationwide declin...
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 o...
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 gen...
12 COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies for Your Community
This webpage highlights 12 strategies derived from evidence-based practices that are being applied in communities across the country to promote vaccine confi...
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 serie...
Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Access, Safety, and Utilization: Building Vaccination Confidence in Communities of Color
This webinar features a panel of experts, including Michelle Cantu, Wayne A. I. Frederick, and Julie Morita, who share their insights into the historical rea...
Mental Health and COVID19: How the Pandemic Complicates Current Gaps in Care and What Can Be Done
This webinar focuses on the unique challenges for mental health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an overview of the current advocacy efforts...
Community-based COVID-19 Vaccination Manual: Lessons and Insights from Frontline Operations
This manual provides guidance for organizations, agencies, and individuals involved, or planning to become involved, in community-based vaccination efforts....
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 p...
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...
State and Local Testing Strategies for Responding to COVID-19 Outbreaks in Communities: Considerations for Equitable Distribution
This report provides considerations for equitably prioritizing testing resources to communities at greatest risk as states and local governments face shortag...
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 variet...
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 pro...
COVID-19 Resources for Local Health Departments
This website is intended for local health departments and provides various interactive data tools to help identify the local burden of COVID-19 and to better...
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 includ...
State Policies and Programs to Support Student Health
This webinar highlights how states have worked to support the physical and mental health of students and staff during COVID-19 and opportunities to support h...
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 rec...
Audience Insights & Messaging Guidance for Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
This document shares audience insights to help improve understanding of some key issues and concerns among Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native...
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 vacci...
COVID-19 Employer Policies: A Decision Tool for Business Leaders
This tool is intended to help users through the process of creating the safest possible workplace environment for employees and customers. It guides users th...
Vaccine Voices
This website aims to raise awareness and amplify promising practices in building vaccine confidence and equitably vaccinating the health care workforce. It i...
Race to End Covid: Partner Playbook for Testing and Vaccination Events
This playbook offers a framework for planning and conducting community-based COVID-19 testing and vaccination events at car racetracks. These events encourag...
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 fa...
COVID-19 Toolkits
This webpage provides a compilation of toolkits from the CDC to help users successfully communicate with their audiences on a variety of topics, including va...
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 car...
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...
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...
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...
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, new...
Three Steps to Smart COVID-19 Testing: A Guide for Employers
This guide is designed to help businesses and other organizations develop appropriate COVID-19 testing plans to enable safe operations during the pandemic. I...
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 th...
COVID-19 Policy Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future
This report identifies and analyzes the policy challenges and opportunities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has six main sections, including the role o...
How California’s Community-Based Organizations Filled the Gaps for Underserved Communities
This report — created by ChangeLab Solutions, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, and Prevention Institute, with contributions from 21 Californi...
Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
This self-assessment tool is designed to help users explore their individual cultural competence. It helps individuals consider their skills, knowledge, and...
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 Justi...
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...
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 co...
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 i...
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 incarcer...
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. Syst...
Helping People Talk about Race and Racism: An Open Dialogue Guide
This short presentation acts as a guide on how to hold an open dialogue about race and racism.
Mental Health and Substance Use Considerations Among Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As mental health issues become more pronounced among children, access to care issues may also be increasing. These access issues may exacerbate existing ment...
Roots of Health Inequity Learning Collaborative
This free online course provides a learning environment from which to explore the root causes of inequity in the distribution of disease, illness, and death....
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 effecti...
Health Care Data 101
This informational guide introduces non-health sector professionals to health care data. This guide answers questions on topics such as health care data coll...
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 e...
How to WIN with Business: The Role of Business in Supporting a Thriving and Just World
This interactive guide highlights the WIN with Business Framework and The WIN with Business briefs.
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....
Coronavirus Equity Considerations
This webpage provides access to an NAACP report that outlines equity considerations related to the COVID-19 pandemic and links to resources, recommendations,...
Healthy Neighborhoods Investments: A Policy Scan and Strategy Map
This document identifies policy actions for advancing health and racial equity through cross-sector investments. It also serves as a tool for community-owned...
The Toolkit for Health, Arts, Parks, and Equity
This toolkit is a resource for those interested in using place-based arts and culture to achieve more equitable health outcomes. The hope is that it will be...
Learning from the Past and Creating New Legacies of Equitable Vaccination
Concern looms that vaccine hesitancy could result in inequitable and sub-optimal levels of vaccination that slow our recovery from the pandemic while widenin...
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 in...
Ensuring Equity in COVID-19 Planning, Response, and Recovery Decision Making
This tool was developed to assist health departments in prioritizing equity in COVID-19 planning, especially in historically excluded communities. It is avai...
Showing Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Cases
Tracking COVID-19’s Effects by Race and Ethnicity
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...
America’s Moment: Investing in Positive Youth Development to Transform Youth and Society
This journal article explores the power of positive youth development in the time of COVID-19. The paper outlines the effects of COVID-19 on youths’ m...
Humane Housing and COVID-19
Safe, stable housing has long been a pressing concern among those who steward health and well-being. ...
COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard
The Eviction Lab and Wake Forest University Law School’s Professor Emily Benfer have developed the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard to distill the co...
Well-Being in the Nation: A Living Library of Measures to Drive Multi-Sector Population Health Improvement and Address Social Determinants
This article provides an in-depth explanation of the Well Being in the Nation (WIN) Measures, a living library of hundreds of measures that can be used acros...
COVID-19 Social Health Playbook
The playbook provides guidance on caring for patients with social needs within a COVID-19 context. It includes information on how to assess patients’...
Advancing Equitable Economies Policy Library
The Advancing Equitable Economies Policy Library (Equitable Economies Library) is a searchable, living library of policies that can be leveraged to advance m...
Reliable Transportation and COVID-19
What constitutes safe, reliable transportation has been completely altered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The single occupancy vehicle is arguably the safest...
Connecting the Vital Conditions for COVID-19 Recovery and Renewal
COVID-19 has upended our collective lives along every one of the Vital Conditions and brought to light just how important, and connected, the Vital Condition...
Census Response, Civic Engagement and COVID-19
A Healthiest Communities analysis shows a strong link between responding to a key Census Bureau survey and lower coronavirus case rates, underscoring the imp...
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 crise...
Confronting Racism and Supporting Asian American Communities in the Wake of COVID-19
This blog post provides recommendations on how to address anti-Asian racism in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests ways to support vulnerable comm...
Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus
This webpage provides a compendium of practices, resources, and articles for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19....
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 se...
Lifelong Learning and COVID-19
Corona Virus-Innovations Across the Globe
The goal of this webpage is to locate and display emerging innovative trends across the globe for mitigating the impacts of COVID-19.
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America highlights scores of actions that communities, orga...
The Next Normal: Emerging Stronger from the Coronavirus Pandemic
This searchable multi-media collection of resources is intended to help companies and leaders reset for growth beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
The Storytelling Project Curriculum: Learning About Race and Racism through Storytelling and the Arts
This free model and curriculum prompts students to consider how racism conceals or extinguish stories of diverse groups, how society can benefit from listeni...
Race and Coronavirus: How Promotores can Help Latinos in the Time of COVID-19
This article focuses on how Visión y Compromiso is promoting community health and well-being through training and support of promotores and community he...
How creative thinking helped Seattle flatten the curve
In the midst of this deadly pandemic, in the Pacific Northwest’s most populous county, a riot of creativity is unleashing an improbable wave of optimi...
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...
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...
Impact of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships on Costs in an Urban Academic Medical Center
This article shares experiences and lessons learned with improving continuity of care for underserved patients through collaboration with faith-based communi...
Pathways to Population Health Case Studies
This collection of case studies outlines the work of health care change agents in utilizing the Pathways to Population Health Framework, Compass, and other r...
Why American Churches Are Struggling to Get by during the Pandemic.
This article looks at the financial struggles that churches and other religious institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Water of Systems Change
This report presents the “inverted triangle” framework as an actionable model for funders and others interested in creating systems change...
Transforming Systems for Wellbeing and Equity
When we see communities as dynamic systems, we see howvital community conditionswork together to produce health and well-being. Thinking in terms of systemic...
Key Metrics for COVID Suppression
This interactive risk levels dashboard tracks the pandemic in real-time. Users can explore COVID-19 risk levels (measured by daily new cases) worldwide, by s...
COVID-19 Mitigation Policies and Cases
This visualization tool is a comprehensive database of policies and plans to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Decision-makers can use COVID AMP’s interf...
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COVID Analysis and Mapping of Policies (AMP)
This resource provides access to a comprehensive list of policies and plans implemented globally to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Each policy or plan has be...
COVID LOCAL: A Frontline Guide for Local Decision-Makers
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant disruptions to cities and local communities globally. This guide was developed to provide a decision framework f...
Green, Yellow, Orange Or Red? This New Tool Shows COVID-19 Risk In Your County
This podcast presents a new tool that shows COVID-19 risk in your county, and compares your risk to other places.
A Collision of Epidemics: Coronavirus Disrupts Addiction Treatment
It’s a crisis that mental health experts worry they’ll see more often as people turn to illicit drugs to cope with the stressors of the pandemi...
Belonging and Civic Muscle During COVID-19
Photo by Sara Ivey It’s probably not a surprise that social distancing and bouts of self-isolation are contributing to increasing anxiety and depressi...
#RealCollege During the Pandemic
In March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic struck American higher education. Colleges closed campuses, students lost jobs, and emergency resources failed to mee...
The First Data On COVID-19 And Teens’ Mental Health Is Here — And It’s Not Good
This article presents the findings of a survey of teenagers and how they are coping in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. Also included are resources for parents...
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 uph...
COVID-19 Strategy Guide
This paid tool offers assistance with organizations’ COVID-19 risk management plans and strategies. Clients receive a nine-page process guide, overvie...
COVID-19: Local Action Tracker
This tool allows users to find and share information on how cities and municipalities are responding to COVID-19. Users are able to filter or search policies...
COVID-19 and Older Adults: Assisting Our Most Vulnerable Population
This blog post explores how older adults are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and suggests ways to stay safe while continuing to have their needs met.
Protecting Child Health and Wellbeing During COVID-19
This blog post looks at how children, while expected to be at lower risk of COVID-19 than adults, can still be affected in other ways, such as fear, stress,...
COVID-19 Resources for Indigenous Peoples
This blog post is intended for Indigenous individuals and provides resources, tools, and recommendations for COVID-19 on health protocols, social distancing,...
Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery
This document by Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery compiles emerging practices from around the world and includes implementation resources for citie...
COVID-19: How Philanthropy Can Stand Up for Vulnerable Populations
With COVID-19 there seem to be more questions than answers, particularly for funders who want to respond effectively and efficiently. This series of webinars...
United Nations COVID-19 Response Creative Content Hub
Thousands of creators from around the world generously submitted their work to help communicate important and unifying messages that can combat the spread of...
Eight Emerging Lessons: From Coronavirus to Climate Action
This blog post discusses eight learning experiences that have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and how countries, governments, organizations, and individua...
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 pub...
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 pa...
Decolonizing Community Care in Response to COVID-19
This blog post discusses the importance of decolonizing community care and reconnecting in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and shares some traditional pr...
Case Study – Role of Community Health Workers in Addressing Inequities and Systems Transformation During COVID-19 and Beyond: An Opportunity for Health Department and Organizational Practices
This white paper outlines best practices and solutions for health departments engaging community health workers on the frontlines to address equity gaps...
Coronavirus in Indian Country: Latest Case Counts
American Indian communities have some of the highest rates of coronavirus in the United States. However, this data is almost certainly incomplete as scholars...
Census COVID Resource Hub
This collection of tools, data, and resources from the U.S. Census presents demographic and economic data related to COVID-19.
Census COVID Impact Report
This dashboard provides a state and county-level snapshot of COVID-related demographic and economic indicators from the American Community Survey and County...
Religious Health Assets Mapping
This page introduces the Participatory Inquiry into Religious Health Assets, Networks, and Agency (PIRHANA) model, which allows researchers to map religious...
What Works for Health
This tool allows users to find policies and programs that fit their community’s priorities. Users are able to find and select evidence-policies and sy...
COVID-19 United States Breakdown
This interactive tool displays state level data on COVID-19 cases, tests, deaths, hospitalizations, and recoveries in regards to race/ethnicity.
COVID-19 Forecast Hub
This tool presents an ensemble of COVID-19 forecasts from a variety of sources. Ensemble models can smooth out the variability of individual models to presen...
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...
Engaging People with Lived Experience Toolkit
This toolkit identifies key steps, states, tips and resources needed to engage community residents with lived experience at all levels of a community’...
Health Equity Policy Platform for COVID-19 Response and Recovery
This webpage outlines a COVID-19 response and recovery policy platform that challenges the conditions that create inequities in health outcomes. Black,...
Basic Needs and COVID-19
Amid this Coronavirus crisis, people are hurting. While there is no hierarchy of oppression and grief, the spread of COVID-19 has acted as a magnifying glass...
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 c...
Nonprofit and Artist Resource COVID-19
This compilation of resources for artists and nonprofits was created by the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts. It contains information about various emergency...
Wellbeing Trust COVID-19 Archives
This Well Being Trust collection contains stories, updates, and resources on social engagement, mental health, policy and advocacy, and well-being during the...
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 spr...
Smart Growth and the Pandemic
This curated page of resources and updates on ongoing work related to the COVID-19 pandemic supports efforts for managing, recovering, rebuilding, and learni...
Coronavirus Resources for Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
The Prevention Institute highlights resources that prioritize equity and underline interconnectedness. They address both the urgency of the moment and the ne...
COVID-19 Tools and Resources for Nonprofits
This toolkit by the Nonprofit Finance Fund provides a variety of tips, blogs, tools, webinars, insights, and resources to help nonprofits navigate through is...
COVID-19: Resources for Individuals and Governments
Organizations across all sectors have been sharing experiences and tools, and scrambling to innovate creative new resources in response to COVID-19. This per...
COVID-19 Update
This webpage provides a few supporting resources and strategies for optimizing PPEs, waste guidance, food insecurity, upcoming webinars, and more.
Advancing Our Church Podcast: Catholic Charities response to COVID-19
This episode focuses on charity and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the most vulnerable in our society.
Business Response to COVID-19
This webpage presents updates, resources, and policy campaigns for supporting small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alliance for a Healthier Generation COVID-19 Resources & Updates
Alliance for a Healthier Generation provides free, evidence-based resources to support the physical, social, and emotional health of children and their careg...
Talking About COVID-19: A Call for Racial, Economic, and Health Equity
This blog unpacks the need for conscious language and messaging around COVID-19, and the potential to advance allyship with communities of color.
COVID Race Data Dashboard
This is the beta release of the COVID Racial Data Tracker’s racial data dashboard. The state-level data dashboard is broken down into four sections: s...
Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts in the United States by County
This dataset provides a provisional count of deaths involving coronavirus disease by county.
Apple Maps Mobility Trends Report
These mobility trend reports are published daily and reflect requests for directions in Apple Maps. Users are able to learn about daily changes in requests f...
COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
These Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. Users can search by count...
COVID-19 Mobility Insights
These Mobility Insights tools by Cuebiq can currently be accessed for free. Their Offline Intelligence dashboards and analyses offer insights into mobility a...
Social Distancing Scoreboard
This interactive scoreboard by Unacast is intended to empower organizations to measure and understand the efficacy of social distancing initiatives at the lo...
A Compendium of Models that Predict the Spread of COVID-19
The American Hospital Association (AHA) offers this compendium of models and tools to help forecast COVID-19 cases and deaths, medical supply needs, includin...
COVID-19 Vulnerability Footprint
This map tool displays where vulnerable communities are by identifying where there are high concentrations of older populations, the uninsured, and high popu...
COVID-19 Indicator Report
Populated with both national and local data, this site features interactive maps, reports, and resources to serve all cities and counties across the United S...
The COVID Racial Data Tracker
The COVID Racial Data Tracker tracks how the pandemic isn’t affecting all communities the same way by collecting, publishing, and analyzing racial data...
The Demographics of COVID
This map shows the U.S. states that have released COVID-19 data by race, broken down into three critical categories: confirmed cases, deaths, and testing
Dialogue Guide: Life in the Time of Coronavirus
This guide offers a starting point for reflecting on the personal and community impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This guide was developed by Living Room C...
Dialogue as a Process for Community Change
In spite of all the hard work and valiant effort, there has never really been a blueprint to addressing and overturning the hard issues that affect our socie...
Coronavirus: Learning How to Dance
This article is a continuation of the article, “Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance.” Now that countries around the world are under the ...
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 ab...
The COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index (CCVI)
Every community in the US will be affected by COVID-19 — but the impacts will not be the same in each. This index identifies which communities may nee...
An Equitable Systems Transformation Framework for COVID-19
This blog post highlights opportunities to ensure that the voices and experiences of marginalized communities are included in policies and decisions related...
COVID-19 United States Cases by County
This interactive map by the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center provides county-level data on COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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...
Impact Planning for COVID-19
This tool provides COVID-19 impact reports for each U.S. county. Users are able to view statistics about individual counties, including insurance coverage, h...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Case Counts
Repository for the daily counts of coronavirus, including confirmed, deaths, and recovered, provided by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Scien...
COVID-19 Data Project
These data visualizations and charts can assist users with finding the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths by state and county. Users are also able to compar...
CoronaData U.S.
CoronaData U.S. is a nationally representative survey, administered daily, of U.S. public opinions, behaviors, and attitudes related to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Dartmouth Atlas Project: COVID-19
This website uses methods and approaches from the Dartmouth Atlas Project to better understand the geography of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to track bed ca...
Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model
This article breaks down the problems and explains the complexity of modeling the COVID-19 pandemic.
State COVID-19 Data and Policy Actions
To date, states have taken a number of actions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and reduce barriers to testing and treatment for those affected. This data...
Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) developed this COVID-19 planning guidance based on traditional infection prevention and industrial h...
COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
This interactive COVID-19 dashboard and map presents statistics on cases, deaths, recoveries, hospitalizations, and testing for COVID-19 around the world....
Weaving Community During Crisis
The #Weaving Community initiative aims to ensure that the pandemic strengthens communities instead of pulling them apart. It offers three ways to weave commu...
‘Rona and Racism: A Survival Guide
In this podcast hosted by Tonya Mosley, Seema Yasmin answers questions and concerns about how people of color are often scapegoated as carriers of disease, s...
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...
COVID-19 Projections
This webpage provides a collection of data delivered in various formats to help interpret trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Projections address COVID-...
Coping with COVID: Health Impacts for Families and Children
This Project ECHO session addresses the mental health impact of the pandemic on children and families, during and after the stay-at-home quarantine phase. It...
COVID-19 Response Resources for Local Leaders
This resource page and Pandemic Response series was developed by the National League of Cities to support cities, towns and villages during the COVID-19 outb...
Disease Risks and Homelessness
This page provides research, tools, and guidance for homeless service providers looking to prevent and treat communicable diseases, as well as resources for...
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 mit...
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 l...
COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Relief
Local elected officials are distinctly positioned to protect the health and safety of residents and to provide reassurance in times of crisis. The National L...
The COVID Tracking Project
The COVID Tracking Project provides comprehensive testing data on every US state and territory. It contains numbers on tests, confirmed cases, hospitalizatio...
The Vox Guide to Navigating the Coronavirus Crisis
This collection of resources helps individuals navigate the “new normal” and contains support for topics such as protecting against the virus,...
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
This article explores what the next year and a half could look like, depending on how countries respond to the coronavirus situation. It presents a compellin...
A Resource: Impacts of COVID-19 on First-Generation Students Experienced Across Institutions of Higher Education
This blog post examines how COVID-19 is affecting first-generation college students and what questions higher education professionals need to consider. With...
Healing the Nation: Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Policy
The Healing the Nation report details the depth and breadth of our country’s mental health crisis, as well as important policy steps that must be take...
Healing the Nation: Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Policy
The Healing the Nation website provides policy briefs, fact sheets, and solutions for the various systems that are linked to mental health crisis in the Unit...
Implementation of Mitigation Strategies for Communities with Local COVID-19 Transmission
This document provides an overview of community mitigation strategies for slowing the spread of respiratory virus infections.
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Commons Good Podcast
The Commons Good podcast is about stewardship and starting points for learning and acting together to secure intergenerational well-being and equity for all....
Decarceration Strategies: How 5 States Achieved Substantial Prison Population Reductions
Connecticut, Michigan, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and South Carolina have reduced their prison populations between 14-25% over the past decade. This report e...
Building Blocks Podcast: Faith-Based Development
Can unlocking land supply be the key to increasing affordable housing production? On this episode of Building Blocks, David Bowers, Enterprise’s Vice...
Well-Being in the Nation (WIN) Measures
WIN measures are created by and with communities, with support from national groups like the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, National Qual...
Common Core of Data
The Common Core of Data (CCD) is the Department of Education’s primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the United States. CCD...
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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 ...
Rhode Island Prisons Push To Get Inmates The Best Treatment For Opioid Addiction
This podcast and article features the efforts of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. They hold group therapy sessions that are part of a $2 million p...
Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Supporting Environmental Justice and Equitable Development
This report outlines characteristics of successful healthcare organization-community-based organization partnerships and provides recommendations to guide th...
Issue Brief: Coordinated Whole-Person Care that Addresses Social Determinants of Health
To achieve better health outcomes at a lower cost, clinical and social service providers increasingly need access to information reflecting the social determ...
Investing in Social Services as a Core Strategy for Healthcare Organizations: Developing the Business Case
This research-based guide explores the current landscape of investments targeting SDOH as well as approaches to accelerate the uptake of SDOH investments int...
Community Care Coordination Systems: Connecting Patients To Community Services
This brief describes community care coordination systems, which are comprehensive systems that connects patients with both the health and social service sect...
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...
Community Tool Box: Enhancing Cultural Competence
This toolkit helps users assess and improve cultural competence within organizations or efforts by providing an outline of key tasks, examples, and links to...
Imagining a New America
“And so we must imagine a new country.” These are words of the poet, journalist, prophet of our times: Ta-Nehisi Coates. This hour, he’s...
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Tribal Epidemiology Toolkit
This toolkit provides resources and best practices to promote population health among tribal communities by enhancing public health surveillance in Indian Co...
The Importance of Data Sharing to Support Integration of Substance Use Treatment in California’s Medi-Cal Program
This issue brief analyzes two California case examples of data sharing to integrate physical health and substance abuse data, and describes how California us...
SLDS Issue Brief: Sources and Linking Strategies for Employment Data
This issue brief describes different strategies for linking employment data, education data, and other social service data. It details best practices from st...
Sharing Data: Legal and Policy Considerations
This resource provides best practices concerning the legal and policy considerations pertaining to sharing research data. These practices relate to usage rig...
Research
This HHS guidance document provides an overview of the HIPAA provisions relating to the use of protected health information for research purposes.
Nebraska Codified Law Review Information Sharing Initiative
This resource summarizes key Nebraska state laws relating to data sharing.
Legal Issues Concerning Identifiable Health Data Sharing Between State/ Local Public Health Authorities And Tribal Epidemiology Centers In Selected U.S. Jurisdictions
This resource provides a general overview of the legal authority of state, local and tribal public health agencies to collect, use, and share data for public...
Interagency Data Disclosure
This US Department of Education resource provides tips on interagency data sharing and integration for education agencies, housing agencies, and organization...
Information Sharing in Criminal Justice-Mental Health Collaborations: Working with HIPAA and Other Privacy Laws
This resource examines the laws relating to health information sharing in the legal, public safety, and criminal justice contexts. It provides role-specific...
Immunization Data Sharing, HIPAA, and MIIC
This resource examines whether the HIPAA protections permit providers to submit immunization data to a Minnesota immunization registry without patient author...
Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information
This guide provides a detailed review of the federal HIPAA protections and special considerations associate with electronic health information. It includes i...
Fine Print: Rules for Exchanging Behavioral Health Information in California
This resource describes legal issues associated with sharing physical health, mental health, and substance abuse data, including a review of federal and Cali...
Federal Public Health Laws Supporting Data Use and Sharing
This issue brief provides a brief overview of federal laws that encourage the use and release of health information for public health purposes.
FERPA Exceptions Summary
This resource summarizes four FERPA exceptions permitting personally identifiable information. The disclosure exceptions relate to directory information, sch...
FERPA 201: Data Sharing under FERPA
This online training course provides an overview of the FERPA legal protections and exceptions relating to data sharing.
Federal Statistical Research Data Centers
This website contains information about federal statistical research data centers, including information about available government data and the processes fo...
Disclosure of Individual Health Information – HIPAA Requirements
This resource explains requirements for a few of the HIPAA disclosure provisions, including whether disclosures must be logged by covered entities for accoun...
Data Sharing: Creating Agreements in Support of Community-Academic Partnerships
This resource provides guidelines and best practices for data sharing between academia and community organizations. It outlines a process for creating data s...
Data Sharing Between Law Enforcement and Schools
This resource provides answers to frequently asked questions relating to data sharing between education and law enforcement. It covers both federal and Minne...
Data Policy Toolkit: Implementing the State Blueprint
This issue brief argues for the creation of longitudinal data systems and proposes that states adopt legislation to remove policy barriers and authorize data...
Connecting the Dots: The Promise of Integrated Data Systems for Policy Analysis and Systems Reform
This resource provides an overview of the legal, ethical, scientific, and economic challenges associated with creating integrated data systems for inter-agen...
Anchored in Place: How Funders Are Helping Anchor Institutions Strengthen Local Economies
Anchor institutions can play a vital role in strengthening and connecting local economies, and can serve as powerful drivers for building inclusive and equit...
Wellbeing in the Nation (WIN) Measurement Framework
The Well-Being In the Nation (WIN) Measurement Framework offers a set of common measures to assess and improve population and community health and well-being...
School District
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
“Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders” is a phrase describing several aggregated demographics—or multiple distinct, diverse groups of p...
County and Local Health Departments
Active Transportation Policy Hub
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s Active Transportation Policy Hub is a search tool to empower transportation advocates, legislators, government officials...
Hospitals and Healthcare Institutions
Opioid Epidemic Practical Toolkit: Helping Faith-based and Community Leaders Bring Hope and Healing to Our Communities
This seven-part toolkit, developed by the HHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, contains practical steps for bringing hope and healing to...
Equitable Development Toolkit
This resource includes 27 tools to reverse patterns of segregation and disinvestment, prevent displacement, and promote equitable revitalization.
Community Health Assessment Toolkit
The Community Health Assessment Toolkit offers a nine-step pathway for conducting a community health assessment and developing implementation strategies.
Belonging and Civic Muscle
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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 consis...
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Thriving Natural World
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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 relati...
Meaningful Work and Wealth
Meaningful Work and Wealth is an indispensable vital condition that we all depend on for our health and well-being. Peoples lives and self-worth flourish whe...
Humane Housing
Humane Housing is an indispensable vital condition that we all depend on for our health and well-being. We are able to thrive when we have secure, consistent...
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National Equity Atlas
This tool provides data to track, measure, and make the case for racial equity and inclusive prosperity in America’s regions, and states, and nationwi...
College Campuses
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 i...
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Health Equity
Health status is influenced by a range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors. Built environment factors influence our ability to engage in...