ASTHO COVID-19 Resources
Guidance Documents
Intervention Actions
Issue Briefs
- Fighting Compassion Fatigue During Public Health Epidemics (Aug. 13, 2020)
- School Reopening Planning: Federal, Association, and State Considerations (July 14, 2020)
- State and Territorial Contact Tracing Legislation (July 2, 2020)
- Using Telebehavioral Health to Increase Access to Care for Rural and Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 (PDF) (updated May 7, 2020)
- Analysis: Emergency Supplemental Funding to State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal Governments (PDF) (updated May 6, 2020)
- Regulations of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare Settings During the COVID-19 Response (PDF) (Apr. 30, 2020)
- Leading Through Crisis: Supporting Workforce Resilience (PDF) (Apr. 28, 2020)
- Administrative Preparedness: Strategies for Managing and Streamlining COVID-19 Response and Recovery (PDF) (updated Apr. 14, 2020)
- Leading With Transparency During Times of Crisis (PDF) (updated Apr. 13, 2020)
- Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences During COVID-19 (PDF) (updated Apr. 8, 2020)
- Healthcare Surge Capacity Planning—Modeling as a Decision-Making Tool for Public Health Officials (PDF) (updated Apr. 3, 2020)
- CMS Interim Final Rule Review (PDF) (updated Mar. 31, 2020)
- Practicing Self-Care in the COVID-19 Response: A Guide for Public Health Professionals (PDF) (updated Mar. 31, 2020)
- Optimizing PPE Supplies with Decontamination and Reuse (PDF) (updated Mar. 27, 2020)
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Shortages: Considerations for Donation Management and Homemade Equipment (PDF) (updated Mar. 25, 2020)
- Preparing for and Responding to Hospital and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Surge (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
- Childcare Services for Essential Workforce Personnel (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
- Postponing Elective Procedures to Increase COVID-19 Healthcare Capacity (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
- COVID-19 Ventilator Use and Allocation: Key Considerations and Examples (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
- Using Telehealth to Reduce Healthcare Worker and Patient Exposure - Considerations for State and Territorial Health Leaders (PDF) (updated Mar. 18, 2020)
Risk Communications Guide
Public Service Announcement
Response Hub
Trainings
Videos
- ASTHOConnects webinar: Adolescent Mental Health During COVID-19 (Aug. 25, 2020)
- ASTHOExperts webinar: The Trends of Overdose Data During COVID-19 Webinar (June 11, 2020)
- Modeling Strategies for COVID-19 Interventions (Apr. 10, 2020)
Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, speaks with Nirav Shah, MD, MPH, former commissioner of the New York Department of Health, about modeling and its use during COVID-19. Shah also discusses limitations with models, what types of data may be included, and some important considerations in choosing a model.
Blog Posts
- The Role of Public Health in Reducing Suicide Risk During COVID-19 (Sept. 10, 2020)
- Updated Rundown of State and Territorial COVID-19 Mask Requirements (Aug. 26, 2020)
- States Seek to Protect the Workers Who Feed America (Aug. 19, 2020)
- Congress Convenes Sectors on School Reopenings (Aug. 6, 2020)
- States Ensure Safe and Accessible Elections During COVID-19 (July 29, 2020)
- Transformational Leadership: A Vaccine for Rural Healthcare Delivery (July 23, 2020)
- Promoting Health Equity through State Orders for COVID-19 Testing (July 22, 2020)
- Getting Ahead of the COVID-19 Vaccine (July 15, 2020)
- Rundown of State and Territorial COVID-19 Mask Requirements (July 9, 2020)
- How to Support Youth Post COVID-19 With More Flexible Policies (July 8, 2020)
- The New Frontier of "Digital Proximity" Tracing (July 1, 2020)
- States Support Rural Hospitals While COVID-19 Highlights Challenges (June 24, 2020)
- Ensuring Safe Access to Oral Healthcare During COVID-19 (June 24, 2020)
- How States are Bolstering a Contact Tracing Workforce (May 27, 2020)
- Health Equity During COVID-19: Top Strategies for an Equity-Focused Recovery Strategy (May 21, 2020)
- How States are Housing the Homeless During a Pandemic (May 20, 2020)
- A New Normal for Public Health Agencies (May 19, 2020)
- Getting Creative to Keep Americans Fed During COVID-19 (May 13, 2020)
- Congressional Efforts to Bolster Contact Tracing Workforce (May 6, 2020)
- The COVID-19 Impact on Our Mental Health System (May 5, 2020)
- COVID-19’s Impact on Pregnancy and Childbirth Policies (Apr. 22, 2020)
- Why We Need Race and Ethnicity Data to Beat COVID-19 (Apr. 22, 2020)
- What is Needed for Community Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Apr. 17, 2020)
- Avoiding ACEs by Helping Families During COVID-19 (Apr. 15, 2020)
- States Leverage Telehealth to Respond to COVID-19 (Apr. 8, 2020)
- Celebrating Public Health in a Time of Crisis (Apr. 7, 2020)
- COVID-19: One Step Ahead (Apr. 3, 2020)
- What You Need to Know About Federal Emergency Supplemental Funding for COVID-19 (Apr. 2, 2020)
- COVID-19 Highlights Need to Fund State Public Health (Apr. 1, 2020)
- Social Distancing: How States are Handling Business Closures (Mar. 25, 2020)
- Don't Stand So Close to Me (Mar. 19, 2020)
- 16 Key Considerations for Drive-Through or Mobile Testing (Mar. 19, 2020)
- State Emergency Declarations and COVID-19 (Mar. 5, 2020)
- Public Health Workforce Continues All-Hands Approach to Coronavirus, Risk to Public Low (Feb. 6, 2020)
- The 2019 Novel Coronavirus: What We Know (Jan. 23, 2020)
Podcasts
Legislative Alerts
Correspondence to Congress and the Administration
- ASTHO Joins IVPN Letter Requesting Support for Injury and Violence Prevention in Supplemental Funding Package (July 27, 2020)
- Public Health Organizations Request $450 Million for CDC's Data Modernization Initiative (July 22, 2020)
- ASTHO and AIM COVID-19 Immunization Campaign Policy Principles (July 9, 2020)
- ASTHO Joins an Organizational Sign-On Letter to Secretary Azar in Support of CDC (July 1, 2020)
- ASTHO Joins Comments to General Perna and Dr. Slaoui on Operation Warp Speed (PDF) (June 23, 2020)
- ASTHO Joins Letter from Public Health Organizations to Secretary Azar Requesting Extension of Public Health Emergency (PDF) (June 23, 2020)
- Letter to Congressional Leadership on COVID-19 Vaccination Infrastructure (June 1, 2020)
- Public Health Organizations Joint Letter to Congress Requesting Appropriations for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Workforce (PDF) (Apr. 30, 2020)
- ASTHO Issues Contact Tracing Memo to Congress (PDF) (Apr. 10, 2020)
- ASTHO's Request for Additional COVID-19 Emergency Supplemental Funding To Support Ongoing Needs for States, Locals, and Territories (PDF) (Apr. 3, 2020)
- ASTHO's Request for Additional COVID-19 Outbreak Emergency Supplemental Funding (PDF) (Mar. 17, 2020)
- ASTHO Thank You Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee Leadership (PDF) (Mar. 13, 2020)
- ASTHO Thank You Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on LHHS Leadership (PDF) (Mar. 13, 2020)
- ASTHO, NACCHO, CSTE, and APHL Letter to President Trump Requesting Emergency Supplemental Funding to Prepare for and Respond to COVID-19 (PDF) (Feb. 24, 2020)
Related Materials
Press Releases
- Safety, Not Politics, Must Drive COVID-19 Vaccine Timeline (Sept. 3, 2020)
- Nation’s Health Officials Call for Greater Collaboration and Communication with Federal Government (Sept. 2, 2020)
- ASTHO, NCSD Awarded ASAE Power of A Silver Award (Aug. 13, 2020)
- Additional Supplemental Funding Is Indeed Needed for Public Health (Aug. 3, 2020)
- Organizations Call on HHS to Renew Public Health Emergency Declaration (June 30, 2020)
- As Unemployment Rates Rise, Thousands of COVID-19 Contact Tracers Trained Through New Online Training Course in All 50 States (May 15, 2020)
- New Tool Will Help Public Health Officials Estimate the Need for COVID-19 Contact Tracing (May 7, 2020)
- National Health Organizations Announce COVID-19 Contact Tracing Training (Apr. 29, 2020)
- State Associations Release Roadmap to Recovery from COVID-19 (Apr. 27, 2020)
- Funding Public Health Should Always be a Priority (Apr. 16, 2020)
- Scaling Up Public Health Contact Investigation Key to America's Recovery: New Report Finds 100,000 Disease Investigators Needed Now (Apr. 10, 2020)
- Nation’s Public Health Leaders Urge President Trump to Use All Available Authorities to Quickly Produce Testing Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (Apr. 9, 2020)
- ASTHO Statement on Use of Face Coverings by the General Public to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 (Apr. 3, 2020)
- ASTHO Statement on Easing Public Health Measures Amid COVID-19 Outbreak (Mar. 27, 2020)
- Joint Statement: Public Health Organizations Applaud Funding for Data Modernization Initiative (Mar. 27, 2020)
- COVID-19 Testing Needs to Be Limited to Priority Groups Until Sufficient Testing Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment is Available Nationwide (Mar. 20, 2020)
- ASTHO Statement Following COVID-19 National Emergency Declaration (Mar. 13, 2020)
- Mississippi State Department of Health Officer Thomas Dobbs Testifies on COVID-19 (Mar. 10, 2020)
- ASTHO Urges Swift Approval of COVID-19 Emergency Supplemental Funding (Mar. 4, 2020)
- Illinois Department of Public Health Director Ngozi Ezike Testifies on COVID-19 (Mar. 4, 2020)
- Governmental Public Health Leaders Request Emergency Supplemental Funding for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Efforts (Feb. 24, 2020)
- Public Health Departments Are Prepared for Outbreaks (Feb. 5, 2020)
- Health Officials React to First Coronavirus Case in United States (Jan. 21, 2020)