A framework designed to empower organizations, leaders, and coalitions to build stronger, more impactful networks. A set of practical tools and guidelines developed with and for public health implementers to promote an equitable vaccine rollout. Implementers reflect on successes, challenges, and share key lessons learned from COVID-19 care resource coordination programs.
Robust contact tracing that facilitates safe quarantine breaks chains of transmission of COVID-19, stops the spread, and saves lives. A comprehensive contact tracing program includes case investigation, identifying known exposed contacts, and providing support for both positive cases and exposed individuals. This must be a continued priority as part of a comprehensive public health response to COVID-19.
School closures exacerbate inequities in education. Studies show limited risk of transmission within schools, and this data should guide decision-making on reopening K-12 schools. Policies should manage and mitigate community and in-school risks while prioritizing younger, special needs, and low-income students.
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Shefali Oza of the COVID-19 Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative to discuss the role of contact tracing as caseloads surge, and how and what to prioritize in contact tracing and resource coordination.
A community-based public health response to COVID-19 and reopening the U.S. economy.
An effective public health response to COVID-19 relies on a representative, well-trained and well-managed workforce. We must commit to rapidly and thoughtfully expanding the public health workforce in the United States in response to this pandemic and with an eye toward building stronger public health infrastructure for the future.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed huge gaps in the US public health and health care systems and highlighted the negative effects of hundreds of years of structural inequities and systemic racism. In particular, this pandemic has disproportionately impacted low-income, migrant, Indigenous, incarcerated communities, and communities of color. Programs and policies should create a preferential option for these groups.
