ASTHO and CDC convened a webinar highlighting how Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) and public health partnerships are reducing health inequities by implementing nutrition policies and programs that increase access to healthy food in low-socioeconomic communities. Presenters from Ohio discussed Building Capacity for Obesity Prevention (BCOP), a partnership between Case Western Reserve University PRC, Supplemental Nutrition […]

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), with funding and support from the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/OSTLTS) and the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, convened a webinar on Public Health Department Accreditation and Healthy Equity. ASTHO is committed […]

ASTHO staff hosted the webinar In Health Matters, Place Matters -The Health Opportunity Index (HOI). The Virginia Department of Health, Office of Health Equity team provided an in-depth presentation highlighting how they developed the HOI, an online mapping tool of community health influences that allow advocates, citizens and providers to view the many factors that […]

The first in a five-part webinar series about the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

An overview of prescription drug abuse prevention efforts

The second in a five-part webinar series about the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry

Learn about the health assessment process ATSDR uses to determine if chemicals in the environment pose a health risk to communities

Find out how communities in Oregon and Vermont are working to prevent health threats related to climate change.

Find out how health in all policies efforts have been developed and put into place.

Find out how to coordinate health care and public health legal preparedness