Maggie Davis, ASTHO Director of State Health Policy, outlines ASTHO’s new Public Health Legal Mapping Center tool aimed to highlight policies that may prevent overdose; Liljana Baddour, ASTHO’s Senior Director for Workforce Development, says challenges to expanding public health workforce go beyond recruiting; ASTHO’s new Project ECHO: Overdose Fatality Investigative Techniques aims to improve reporting; and sign up for ASTHO’s Public Health Weekly email newsletter

ASTHO Webpage: ASTHO Legal Mapping Center Launches Maps of Harm Reduction Policies to Prevent Overdose

ASTHO Webpage: Workforce Policy Spotlight: Successfully Raising FTE Caps in Rhode Island

ASTHO Webpage: Creating Effective Virtual Trainings for Medical Examiners and Coroners

ASTHO Newsletter

Omar Khalid, ASTHO’s Director of Workforce Development, explains the expansion of ASTHO’s Public Health – Hope, Equity, Resilience, and Opportunity (PH-HERO) initiative; Erin Laird, ASTHO’s Director of Emerging Infections, says preventing infections among dialysis patients is an important public health issue; ASTHO has a new report on the Suicide, Overdose, Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment tool; and a new ASTHO blog article explains how to build capacity to address suicide, overdose, and adverse childhood experiences.

ASTHO Webpage: Funding & Collaboration Opportunities 

CDC: Making Dialysis Safer For Patients Coalition

ASTHO Webinar: Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition

ASTHO Webpage: Island Areas Resource

ASTHO Webpage: Building Capacity to Navigate the Prevention of Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO’s Chief Medical Officer, shares the current COVID-19 status and a look ahead into the coming seasons; Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO president elect and the Commissioner for Public Health for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, outlines the goals of a new ASTHO policy statement on health and social service system alignment; an ASTHO brief details Pennsylvania’s new tool to streamline STI reporting; and sign up for ASTHO’s webinar about maintaining Patient Access to Care in Rural America.

CDC: COVID Data Tracker

ASTHO: Health and Social Service System Alignment to Improve Population Health and Reduce Disparities Policy Statement

ASTHO Webpage: Improving STI Treatment Reporting Forms: Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Innovative Approach

ASTHO Webpage: Maintaining Patient Access to Care in Rural America

ASTHO President Dr. Anne Zink, Chief Medical Officer for the State of Alaska, says policy is the biggest challenge facing public health data modernization; Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, explains the Senate’s Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill for 2024. 

ASTHO: Public Health Data Modernization Policy Statement  

Victoria Pless, ASTHO’s Assistant Director of Social and Behavioral Health, explains recommendations states can use to reduce overdoses; Stephany Strahle, with ASTHO’s Family and Child Health team, says updating public health surveillance systems to include diverse data can better address the root of inequities; and sign up for ASTHO’s legislative alert emails.

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: Reducing Overdose Through Policy Interventions: ASTHO's Recommendations for State and Territorial Health Officials and Agencies

ASTHO Webpage: Linking Datasets to Address Racial Equity in Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

ASTHO Webpage: Legislative Alerts

Melissa Magstadt, Cabinet Secretary for the South Dakota Department of Health, says healthcare must meet patients where they live; Ali Maffey, ASTHO’s Vice President of Social and Behavioral Health, explains approaches to making mental healthcare more accessible; Adrianna Evans, ASTHO’s Director of Preparedness and Disability Integration, shares the award-winning Disability and Preparedness Specialist Program which aimed to promote inclusivity for people with disabilities; ASTHO is hiring a Vice President of Finance; and an ASTHO blog explains Rhode Island’s success in raising their Full Time Employee cap. 

South Dakota Department of Health: Immunizations & Vaccinations

White House Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Takes Action to Make it Easier to Access In-Network Mental Health Care

ASTHO Webpage: ASTHO Earns Two National Awards for Public Health Program Innovation

ASTHO Webpage: Careers at ASTHO

ASTHO Webpage: Workforce Policy Spotlight: Successfully Raising FTE Caps in Rhode Island

Geetika Nadkarni, ASTHO’s Director of Chronic Infectious Disease, shares the award-winning Partnering for Vaccine Equity project which aims to increase vaccinations among diverse communities; Meredith Sussman, Vaccine Equity Project Coordinator for the Palmetto Community Action Partnership, says the vaccine equity project has made new collaboration possible; Kai Tao, Co-founder and Principal of Impact and Innovation for Illinois Contraceptive Access Now; and sign up for ASTHO’s Public Health Weekly email newsletters.

ASTHO Webpage: Partnering with Community Action Agencies Can Improve Trust in Vaccines

Palmetto Community Action Partnership

ASTHO Webpage: Connecting Your Communities to Family Planning Coverage

ASTHO Webpage: Public Health Weekly email newsletters

Adrianna Evans, ASTHO’s Director of Preparedness and Disability Integration, outlines how public health ethics committees help guide preparedness; Kurell Julien, Associate Director of Equity, Inclusion and Justice at Business for Social Responsibility, calls for ongoing support for equity work; ASTHO earned two national awards from The American Society of Association Executives; and ASTHO has a new webinar on access to emergency contraception.

ASTHO Webpage: ASTHO Earns Two National Awards for Public Health Program Innovation

ASTHO Webpage: Leveraging State Health Departments to Improve Access to Emergency Contraception

Alison Maffey, ASTHO’s Vice President of Social and Behavioral Health, explains the impact of President Biden’s proposed rule to make it easier to access in-network mental health care; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO’s Senior Director of Government Affairs, walks through federal spending on public health ahead of Congressional August recess; ASTHO has a new virtual food safety inspection guide; and ASTHO has a blog article on the updated FDA Food Code.

White House Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Takes Action to Make it Easier to Access In-Network Mental Health Care

ASTHO Webpage: Virtual Food Safety Inspection Guide

ASTHO Webpage: The Importance of the FDA Food Code

FDA: Food Code 

J.T. Lane, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President for Population Health and Innovation, explains recommendations to improve public health data systems; Brittany Lee, ASTHO’s Director of Family and Child Health, says public health education will play a role in accessing new over the counter contraceptive Opill; an ASTHO webinar explains how to use PRAMS data; and a new ASTHO blog article outlines how public health can support the mental health of young children and their caregivers. 

ASTHO Webpage: Public Health Data Modernization Policy Statement

FDA: FDA Approves First Nonprescription Daily Oral Contraceptive

ASTHO Webinar: Don't Wait, Validate: Estimating Population Outcomes with PRAMS

ASTHO Webpage: Supporting Positive Mental Health in Early Childhood