The high rates and cost of maternal mental health disorders coupled with near-universal Medicaid coverage during pregnancy creates enormous potential for innovations in payment and coverage structures to improve maternal mental health, ...
In 2021, ASTHO convened state environmental health directors and directors of public health preparedness to discuss innovations developed during the COVID-19 pandemic such as virtual inspections. This ASTHOBrief explores how state health ...
This infographic serves as a tool to foster conversations in health agencies around planning programs, policies, and activities to better serve individuals with disabilities. Available in English and Spanish.
ASTHO develops resources and facilitates learning communities to help health officials reduce maternal mortality, a Healthy People 2030 leading health indicator.
On this episode, we ask public health experts to zoom out a bit and reflect on a truly remarkable year. These public health leaders discuss the politicization of public health mitigation efforts, becoming the target of hateful attacks, and ...
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Learn about the history of Healthy People, the framework for Healthy People 2030, and the target-setting methods for Healthy People 2030 objectives.
What We Learned at the Public Health TechXpo and Futures Forum ASTHO | Our staff's top takeaways from the TechXpo. astho, association of state and territorial health officials, public health techxpo and futures forum, public health ...
Lourdes Romero Reyes and Brenda Castro Voltaggio of the Puerto Rico Department of Health discuss the Public Health Infrastructure Grant Program and ASTHO's Management Office Optimization Toolkit.
What better way to start the new year than with a new strategic plan! ASTHO’s Board of Directors approved the 2022-2024 Strategic Plan and launched it on Jan. 3, 2022, with a new set of priorities that reflect our ever-changing world and ...
ASTHO's mission is to support, equip, and advocate for state and territorial health officials in their work of advancing the public's health and well-being. To that end, here are the 12 most popular resources our members, partners, ...
In May 2021, President Biden released full details of the fiscal year 2022 budget. Overall, the budget request combines President Biden's American Jobs Plan, his American Families Plan, and funding priorities for the Pentagon and ...
As the U.S. continues to undertake the largest vaccination campaign in almost a century, it has required government at all levels to surge workforce capacity. The federal government, states, territories, and local jurisdictions are acting ...
While COVID-19 has shown some of the best attributes of the U.S. public health system, it has exposed the weaknesses of our data systems—wrought by chronic underfunding and further exacerbated by siloed, categorical funding and planning. ...
One of President Biden’s first actions just before being sworn into office was to draft up the American Rescue Plan, a sweeping proposal that ASTHO has committed to working with the Biden Administration on. The proposal offers a national ...
Public health data collection and surveillance systems by health departments are in dire need of modernization. Though the public health community began developing a path to modernization over the last decade, attention to this issue from ...
Government affairs officers from ASTHO and NACCHO discuss approaching public health advocacy as a coalition and the upcoming 2020 Hill Day.
COVID-19 Highlights Need to Fund State Public Health Association of state and territorial health officials, astho, covid-19, covid-19 pandemic, public health, public health infrastructure, state health agency, public health workforce, ...
A quick rundown of sessions and speakers at the 2022 ASTHO Public Health TechXpo.
Inclusive practices that prioritize the safety and well-being of all residents, regardless of age or ability, are essential in ensuring effective disaster preparedness and response.