Overview

It’s critical that climate solutions prioritize and improve lives in communities that have historically been at the margins of government priorities. Yet, even as governmental agencies work to reach out to community members to engage them in this work, community members often express how difficult it is to get government agencies to really listen to their urgent needs and act in their best interests. Two new Network toolkits provide practical guidance for addressing two climate-driven public health needs: community-centered emergency response and preparedness, and community-centered solutions to extreme heat. 

This resource provides an overview of legislative and executive actions targeting school mask mandates and vaccine requirements.

by Overview This resource provides a sample overview of a privacy complaint process. Documentation of this process is typically through a policy that…

Across the country, state and local governments, nonprofits, religious organizations, community groups and dedicated individuals are working to address growing food insecurity. President Biden has committed to addressing the mounting hunger crisis as part of his plan for recovery. This policy overview identifies what actions the Biden administration has taken to-date and what we might expect to see in the future.

by Overview Liability protections for health care workers (HCWs) are a consistent facet of emergency declarations and response at the federal and state…

by Overview As numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases soar, key U.S. jurisdictions are experiencing overwhelming surge from patients seeking testing and requiring hospitalization.

This overview summarizes several key public health appropriations and policy provisions included in the Stimulus Relief bill.

This Overview provides brief explanations of emergency declarations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at federal, state/tribal, and local levels.

by Overview Project Tycho illustrates the power of the use of de-identified data to quantify the impact that vaccine licensure has on the…

by Overview This document is intended to provided a project overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Sentinel Community Snapshots:…

by Overview The Community Health Record is a framework and tool for the community to simultaneously use, aggregate and integrate data and information.

Education has been identified as a social determinant of health. This research focused on legal and policy interventions to support literacy and reading proficiency.