The first cohort of the STRETCH Initiative held two hybrid convenings, where ten state teams engaged with content experts and each other.
We can prepare for the future of health equity and data by ensuring the equitable collection of data and building systems that are flexible enough to account for forward progress.
This ASTHOBrief offers a menu of strategies and considerations for organizations interested in incorporating a Health in All Policies and equity-centered approach to the development and ...
The COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted health inequities at national, state, and local levels. This report details the role immunization can play in reducing these disparities, informed directly by ...
The disparities experienced during the COVID pandemic have brought a national focus to health equity in our nation. The attention and resources currently being provided to help address health ...
In this post, ASTHO explores the conversations and considerations that went into developing the Islands Health Equity Framework.
Centering the Community’s Voice in State-Led Health Equity Initiatives health equity, public health departments, health outcomes, michigan public health institute, health disparities, underserved ...
People with chronic diseases have suffered the most during the pandemic both in rates of COVID-19 mortality and morbidity, and the health disparities that exist in those with chronic disease and poor ...
Leveraging Healthy People 2030 to Build Non-Traditional Multisector Partnerships multisector partnerships, healthy people 2030, health equity, health outcomes, social services, health disparities, ...
This is the first national convening of the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) 2.0 initiative! Co-developed and hosted by ASTHO, CDC Foundation, and the Michigan ...
A guide to setting up and facilitating Health Equity Circles in the workplace.
The Eliminating Structural Racism to Achieve Health Equity Policy Academy fosters the development of governmental workforce policy development skills and boundary spanning leadership to advance ...
In 2021 ASTHO contracted with Lead for America to place eight fellows in state health departments to support these efforts and provide administrative functions.
The purpose of the Island Health Equity Framework is to create a shared understanding of how to move towards health equity in an island context.
Community design strategies that increase the availability of safe and accessible outdoor spaces create more physical activity opportunities for people of all abilities.
ASTHO’s Quality Improvement Plan Toolkit is designed to assist state and territorial health agency staff with developing an agency-wide quality improvement plan and to facilitate preparation for ...
Guidance and Perspectives From Leaders to Their Peers
How the Civil Rights March on Washington Embodied Key Public Health Tenets astho, association of state and territorial health officials, civil rights march on Washington, public health, national day ...
In 2020 and early 2021, state policymakers took action to raise awareness of the impacts of racism on health outcomes, to reverse the damage of racist polices, and to implement policy changes to ...