All COVID-19 Resources

When the Power Fails: Helping Life-Support Equipment Users

Brief,

Preparedness,

Pandemics,

Natural Disasters,

Partnership,

Advocacy,

Health Equity,

At-Risk Populations,

New Jersey,

North Dakota,

Rhode Island,

Utah,

Louisiana,

Disability Inclusion,

Population Health and Prevention,

Healthcare Access,

Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Improvement

People who use electricity-dependent durable medical equipment (DME) at home—such as ventilators and oxygen concentrators—can face life-threatening consequences during a power outage. HHS reports that 2.7 million Medicare beneficiaries ...

Website Accessibility: Enhancing Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Registration and Beyond

Brief,

Health Equity,

Elimination of Disparities,

At-Risk Populations,

Infectious Disease,

COVID-19,

Immunization,

Vaccine Distribution,

Disability Inclusion,

COVID and Special Populations,

COVID and Communication,

COVID Vaccine,

COVID and Health Equity/Health Disparities

For many individuals living with disabilities, inaccessible vaccination websites have been a significant barrier to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Recent studies have found that many vaccination websites do not reliably meet accessibility ...

Fighting Compassion Fatigue During Public Health Epidemics

Brief,

Population Health and Prevention,

Social and Behavioral Health,

Substance Misuse,

Opioids,

Mental Health,

Infectious Disease,

COVID-19,

COVID and Mental Health,

COVID and Workforce,

Public Health Workforce

This brief discusses the difficulty of maintaining compassion and empathy during public health crises, which ultimately leads to a phenomenon called compassion fatigue.

Investing in STD Prevention: Making the Case for Your Jurisdiction

Brief,

Infographic,

Infectious Disease,

Population Health and Prevention,

Social and Behavioral Health,

STIs,

HIV

ASTHO and NCSD jointly released a customizable factsheet that can be used to present outputs from CDC’s STD Prevention Allocation Consequences Estimator in a format that is accessible to decisionmakers, the media, and local audiences.

Georgia and Ohio’s Modernized Opioid Surveillance Strategies

Brief,

Population Health and Prevention,

Social and Behavioral Health,

Substance Misuse,

Overdose Prevention,

Healthcare Access,

Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships,

Georgia,

Ohio,

Data Modernization and Informatics,

Data Modernization

This brief highlights how the Georgia Department of Public Health and the Ohio Department of Health developed robust opioid overdose surveillance systems.

HPV Vaccine: Long-Lasting Cancer Protection

Brief,

Infographic,

Infectious Disease,

Immunization,

Population Health and Prevention,

Social and Behavioral Health,

STIs

Vaccinations can prevent over 90 percent of cancers related to human papillomavirus (HPV). This customizable infographic is intended to help states raise awareness about the importance of the HPV vaccination as a safe, recommended public ...

Performance Management Essentials

Brief,

Leadership and Workforce Development,

Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,

Quality Improvement,

Kansas,

Maine,

Alaska,

Montana,

Puerto Rico,

Guam,

Leadership Development

This brief highlights four top takeaways from the experience of six public health agencies working to establish and strengthen their own performance management systems.

Policy & Advocacy

Advocacy,

Policy

Policy & Advocacy Association of state and territorial health officials, astho, advocacy and policy, state and territorial health officials, public health agencies, federal government affairs, state health policy, public health policy, ...

Environmental Public Health Policy Statement

Health in All Policies,

Policy,

Policy Statement,

Environmental Health

Environmental Public Health Policy Statement Environmental public health programs protect communities from natural, man-made, unintentional, and deliberate threats and hazards in the environment. Responsibility for ensuring the public’s ...

Summarizing CDC Guidance to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing in K-12 Schools

Brief,

Infectious Disease,

COVID-19,

Emerging Infectious Diseases,

Illinois,

California,

Kansas,

Massachusetts,

COVID and Special Populations,

COVID and Contact Tracing/Disease Intervention,

Education

As schools work to stay open for in-person learning, it is essential to understand key recommendations related to COVID-19 prevention in K-12 schools. CDC recommends that health department staff work closely with K-12 schools to ...