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APHA’s Policy Action Institute brings together public health leaders, students and professionals for a collaborative event to discuss proven and proposed policy solutions to tackle today’s most pressing health threats at the local, state and federal levels. Explore our collection of curated resources from this year’s speakers!
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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 wi...
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 he...
Ask an Advocate
This resource features discussions with advocates from different groups or caucuses within the public health community. The topics include LGBTQ health, Latino ...
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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, infecti...
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 agriculture,...
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 identity a...
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, particularly...
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 communit...
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 We Can Tr...
LGBTQ+ People
LGBTQ+ people are individuals whose gender, sexual orientation, and/or romantic orientation is different from the heterosexual, cisgender norms most commonly-ac...
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 Ini...
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, including...
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 ou...
Farmworkers
Farmworkers play an essential role in a healthy, functioning food system. Farmworkers primarily contribute to the safe, efficient, and stable production and del...
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 and agricultu...
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 afforda...
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 startin...
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 attempts t...
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 findin...
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 the...
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 ec...
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 emp...
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 resou...
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 the...
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 streets,...
Reclaim Your Vote
This resource is a campaign dedicated to promoting voter registration, education, and activation. It emphasizes the importance of civic engagement, protecting v...
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 ch...
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 and qualit...
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 impr...
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 insights o...
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 highl...
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 polic...
Healthy Voting
This site promotes healthy voting practices and emphasizes the link between voting and community health outcomes. It guides different voting options, deadlines,...
Vote For Health
This tool aims to simplify the voting process and highlight the impact of voting on public health. It provides resources such as a voting toolkit, event informa...
LGBTQ+ Health Equity Library
LGBTQ+ people belong everywhere. They deserve to live open, authentic lives without fear of discrimination, harassment, judgement, or violence. Despite decades...
Ask an Advocate: DermaTeens
This story discusses a representative of DermaTeen’s advocacy work, experiences as a first-time advocate, values in advocacy, and advice for aspiring ad...
Ask an Advocate
This resource features discussions with advocates from different groups or caucuses within the public health community. The topics include LGBTQ health, Latino...
Ask an Advocate: LGBTQ Health Caucus
This story discusses a member of the LGBTQ Health Caucus’s experiences as an advocate, his values in advocacy work, and advice for aspiring advocates. &...
VFHK Preemption Explainer Video
This resource aims to educate viewers on preemption—a policy tool that restricts lower levels of government from enacting specific measures. It highlights how...
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 advoca...
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 la...
Campaign Toolkits: Preemption
This guide provides advocacy materials for public health preemption. The resource introduces preemption and provides guides for recruitment, engagement, and mob...