Contact Tracing and Disease Intervention Resources

These ASTHO-produced resources were created to assist members in establishing and expanding contact tracing and disease intervention practices. Documents include topics related to tracing, monitoring, disease investigation, use of digital tools, workforce needs, and more.

Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers

Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers provides approximately three hours of free online training to quickly teach participants the basics of contact tracing, regardless of prior experience in public health. Visit the Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers page for more information. 

Guidance Documents

Issue Briefs

• Case Investigation and Contact Tracing (Nov. 17, 2020)
• State and Territorial Contact Tracing Legislation (July 2, 2020)

Intervention Actions

• COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing: Considerations for Using Digital Technologies (updated July 31, 2020)
• A Coordinated, National Approach to Scaling Public Health Capacity for Contact Tracing and Disease Investigation (PDF) (Apr. 20, 2020)
• A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the U.S. (Apr. 10, 2020)

Blog Posts

• The New Frontier of "Digital Proximity" Tracing (July 1, 2020)
• How States are Bolstering a Contact Tracing Workforce (May 27, 3030)
• Congressional Efforts to Bolster Contact Tracing Workforce (May 6, 2020)

Correspondence to Congress and the Administration

• Public Health Organizations Joint Letter to Congress Requesting Appropriations for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Workforce (Apr. 30, 2020)
• ASTHO Issues Contact Tracing Memo to Congress (PDF) (Apr. 10, 2020)

Press Releases

• Public Health Organizations Publish Lessons Learned From the Early Days of COVID-19 Response (Dec. 1, 2020)
• ASTHO, NCSD Awarded ASAE Power of A Silver Award (Aug. 13, 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)