BRACE: A Public Health Model for Climate Action
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This policy brief focuses on how historic maltreatment of communities of color and tribal nations, along with current day structural racism, have created distrust of government and healthcare in many communities of color and tribal communities. It provides six key recommendations on policy actions to help build trust in and access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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Water Utility-Community: Guide for Communications
This guide supports water utilities and communities in building trust and improving communication through best practices, engagement strategies, and real-world ...
Community-based Coalitions and Public Health: Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response Discussion
This resource explores how community-based coalitions support public health efforts, featuring insights from local leaders.
Building Power with Community Partnerships: Alliance for the Public’s Health August Meeting
This resource highlights strategies for integrating community partnerships into public health advocacy to advance health equity.
Congress: Don’t Cut Lifesaving Investments that Communities are Counting on
This resource is a statement from health organizations urging Congress to maintain funding for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflati...
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, emphasizing B...
Triple Aim and Population Health
This resource focuses on the IHI Triple Aim framework for optimizing health by improving patient care, health outcomes, and cost-efficiency.
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 or...
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 to ...
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 peop...
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 immediat...
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.
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 database...
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.
Guidance for Operating Youth and Summer Camps: Readiness and Planning Tool
This tool provides four checklists and a resources list that camp and youth program administrators can use to operate camps while preventing the spread of COVID...
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.
K-12 Schools COVID-19 Mitigation Toolkit
This toolkit is designed for public health officials, K-12 administrators, school district officials, and occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals to ...
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
This webpage offers recommendations to help tribal communities, elders, and leaders decide how best to keep their communities safe and prevent the spread of COV...
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 educa...
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, improve, ...
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 aff...
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 workpla...
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.
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 su...
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 guidance to...
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 a c...
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-ba...
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 in ...
Country and Technical Guidance – Coronavirus Disease
This webpage outlines technical guidance around coronavirus. The resources are grouped by topics including critical preparedness, surveillance, clinical care, n...
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 mitigation...
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.
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 investigation, ...
COVID-19
This webpage list several documents related to topics on restaurant closures, school closures, limits on mass gatherings, and maps to show mitigation practices ...
Activities and Holidays
This webpage provides information on how to stay safe while engaging in activities or gathering indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Household COVID-19 Risk and In-person Schooling
This report discusses the role of schools in transmission and the value of school closure.
Guidance for K-12 Education on Responding to COVID-19
This report provides guidance on the health-related issues for safely reopening schools and the practices that should be implemented in order to maintain and mo...
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 so...
Science Brief: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 Schools and Early Care and Education Programs – Updated
This science brief provides information on how to provide safe, supportive learning environments for children and adolescents and how to employ teachers and oth...
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 workplace...
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.
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 the...
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 infection.
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.
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 their p...
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 key ...
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.
Social Distancing
This blog post introduces important information about social distancing and discusses the legal authority for implementing social distancing as a mitigation mea...
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.
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 are a...
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 appr...
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 Maps, Graphs, & Figures
This webpage provides a collection of maps, graphs, and figures about COVID-19 from leading organizations around the United States.
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 prev...
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 and ...
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 healt...
COVID-19: Community, Work and School
This webpage provides guidance, strategies, and information on how to protect the health of students teachers, staff, employees, vulnerable groups, and communit...
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 abo...
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 ten r...
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 vacci...
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 vacci...
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 to A...
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 projects.
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, and ...
Webinar: Public Health Communications Collaborative, Oct. 1, 2020
This communications webinar provides advice and guidance on effective messaging for issues related to COVID-19.
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 pro...
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 communi...
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 con...
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, infect...
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, a...
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 universal...
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 distru...
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 desi...
Supporting Student Success through School Health Policy
This webinar focuses on how to leverage school health policies to support children’s health and learning during COVID-19, including access to healthy meal...
Coronavirus Response – Thriving Schools
This webpage provides a compilation of resources to support school leaders and communities in navigating the coronavirus, and the resulting effects of the pande...
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 action...
Toward Healthy Communities Now and Beyond COVID-19: A Platform for Abolition During the Pandemic by Critical Resistance
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 indus...
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 health wo...
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 interface ...
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 for ...
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 need th...
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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Vaccination
Vaccination is one of public health’s most successful tools for preventing and controlling the spread of infectious diseases and, increasingly, cancers and chronic diseases too. Immunization is an effective and cost-efficient strategy that prevents sickness and death in all age groups and saves billions of dollars each year. The COVID-19 epidemic and recent outbreaks of measles and other preventable infectious diseases underscore the importance of vaccines and sustaining high vaccination rates. Work is needed to ensure that people of all ages receive a complete series of the vaccines they need.