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ASTHO’s Public Health Resolutions for 2021

News,
ASTHO News,
Population Health and Prevention,
Health Equity,
Race and Public Health,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Mental Health,
Suicide Prevention,
Injury and Violence Prevention,
Rural Health,
STIs,
HIV,
Infectious Disease,
Immunization,
Vaccine Distribution,
Vaccine Hesitancy,
Environmental Health,
Food and Water Safety,
PFAS,
Healthcare Access,
Telehealth,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Accreditation,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Tobacco Control,
Blog,
Alannah Kittle,
Cara Person,
Kristi Meadows,
Vector-Borne Disease,
Firearm Injury and Violence Prevention

Every year, ASTHO performs an annual environmental scan to identify these policy and programmatic priorities. The most recent scan occurred from June 2019 to May 2020. Through ongoing collection of data from a variety of sources—including ...

U.S. Territories Face Healthcare Cuts if Congress Does Not Address Impending Medicaid Financing Cliff

News Release,
News,
ASTHO Member News,
Preparedness,
Natural Disasters,
Funding,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Population Health and Prevention,
Healthcare Access,
Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships,
Esther L. Muña,
Northern Mariana Islands,
Guam,
Puerto Rico,
American Samoa,
Virgin Islands,
Member Testimony

U.S. Territories Face Healthcare Cuts if Congress Does Not Address Impending Medicaid Financing Cliff ARLINGTON, VA—Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) member Esther Muña, MHA, chief executive officer at the ...

ASTHO and PIHOA Praise Approval of Medicaid Funding Fix for U.S. Territories

News Release,
News,
Public Health News,
Partnership,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Funding,
Population Health and Prevention,
Healthcare Access,
Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships,
Esther L. Muña,
Nathaniel Smith,
Members

ASTHO and PIHOA Praise Approval of Medicaid Funding Fix for U.S. Territories ARLINGTON, VA—This week, Congress approved legislation to extend Medicaid funding for two years for the U.S. territories in their fiscal year 2020 appropriations ...

ASTHO Launches National Campaign to Support Healthy Communities, Aligning with NACCHO and the U.S. Surgeon General

News Release,
News,
ASTHO News,
Partnership,
Population Health and Prevention,
Healthcare Access,
Health Equity,
Elimination of Disparities,
Members,
Rhode Island,
Nicole Alexander-Scott,
Jerome Adams

ASTHO Launches National Campaign to Support Healthy Communities, Aligning with NACCHO and the U.S. Surgeon General ARLINGTON, VA—The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) announced this week the launch of a ...

ASTHO President States Third Year of Declining Life Expectancy is a “Wake-Up Call”

News Release,
News,
Public Health News,
Members,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Mental Health,
Suicide Prevention,
Healthcare Access,
Nicole Alexander-Scott

ASTHO President States Third Year of Declining Life Expectancy is a “Wake-Up Call” ARLINGTON, VA—Suicides and drug overdoses caused life expectancy in the United States to fall again in 2017. In what is the longest downward trend since ...

Summary of FY24 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill

Legislative Alert,
Funding,
News,
Public Health News,
Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Population Health and Prevention,
Healthcare Access,
Women, Infant, and Family Health,
Environmental Health,
Infectious Disease,
Leadership and Workforce Development,
Leadership Development,
Preparedness,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Advocacy

Congress released FY24 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.

ASTHO Releases Five Health Policy Statements

News Release,
News,
ASTHO News,
Policy Statement,
Michael Fraser,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Suicide Prevention,
Environmental Health,
Climate and Health,
Health Equity,
Race and Public Health,
Women, Infant, and Family Health,
Healthcare Access,
Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships,
Territories and Freely Associated States

On October 31, 2023 ASTHO announced the approval of one new and four updated health policy statements.