Governors Address Healthcare Labor Shortages
This commentary reviews state actions addressing the healthcare workforce shortage.
National Governors Association and Third Sector Select Four States to Strengthen SNAP Employment & Training Delivery
This article announces the selection of Indiana, Minnesota, and North Carolina to participate in the Policy Academy to Strengthen SNAP E&T Delivery.
Leading State Approaches And Communication Strategies To Support Health Equity
This brief reviews innovative approaches and communication strategies states and territories are employing to address health equity needs.
Tackling The Maternal And Infant Health Crisis: A Governor’s Playbook
This blog introduces a new National Governors Association guide, designed to make transformational change in a system that has historically failed mothers and babies.
Resource Guide On State Actions To Prevent And Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences And Trauma
This publication highlights the work states in the State Trauma and Resilience Network have been actively involved with since December 2021.
Using Data To Advance Digital Skills: A State Playbook
To assist states in closing digital skill gaps and preparing for digital equity planning, this brief offers key questions and resources for state leaders to consider.
Building A Pipeline To Address The Children’s Mental Health Provider Workforce Shortage
This blog provides solutions and unique opportunities for governors to reform mental health service delivery. Many states have adopted innovative tools to address these shortages.
Partnering with Tribal Nations for COVID-19 Vaccinations: A Case Study of Alaska
This case study examines how Alaska's state and tribal leaders co-led the COVID-19 vaccination effort including allocation, distribution, funding, and communication.
A Case Study Of The Virginia Covid-19 Equity Leadership Task Force And Health Equity Working Group
This brief summarizes the unique structure of Virginia’s equity work, the strategy and actions taken to date, and success factors and lessons learned.
Building State Capacity To Facilitate Equitable Access To Testing And Treatment For HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs And TB
This paper includes considerations and approaches to promote equity and improve public health capacity to prevent, detect and respond to HIV, viral hepatitis, STDs and TB during the public health emergency and beyond.
Modernizing Immunization Information Systems
This issue brief outlines key priorities and considerations for modernizing Immunization Information Systems, including leveraging federal funding available to support these efforts.
State Strategies To Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake In Rural Communities
This papers pulls together considerations and examples of best and promising practices for Governors, including building vaccine confidence through consistent, transparent and factual communication; establishing straightforward pathways for individuals to access vaccines; and, developing and streamlining sustainable systems to strategically allocate and distribute vaccines to rural and frontier populations.
A Case Study Of The Virginia Covid-19 Equity Leadership Task Force And Health Equity Working Group
This brief summarizes the unique structure of Virginia’s equity work, the strategy and actions taken to date, and success factors and lessons learned.
Information Campaigns And COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging: Applying Lessons Learned From The 2020 Election
This memorandum identifies and describes several strategies states deployed to counter false information campaigns during the 2020 election and examines how they may augment states’ COVID-19 vaccine messaging efforts by building better public resilience to false information and restoring trust in official sources of information.
State Of The States Opioid Survey And Analysis
This commentary examines that in 2018, the United States had its first decline in drug overdose deaths in decades, with overall drug overdoses decreasing 4.1% from 2017. However, provisional data on overdose deaths released by the CDC indicate that drug overdose deaths rebounded in 2019, rising 4.6% over the previous year.
State Strategies For Engaging And Leveraging Primary Care Providers As COVID-19 Vaccinators
This brief examines how state are shifting strategies to increase accessibility and engage communities with low COVID-19 vaccine uptake.
COVID-19 Vaccine Incentives
This blog provides updates on the current COVID-19 vaccine incentives being utilized across the country.
Prioritizing Equity In COVID-19 Vaccinations
This report highlights state-level strategies that aim to improve reporting of race and ethnicity data in vaccine distribution, use data to plan for allocation and distribution according to need, overcome systemic inequities that lead to differential access to COVID-19 vaccinations, and build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and COVID-19 vaccination processes.
Balancing Medicaid Budgets and Serving State Residents During a Pandemic
This report outlines key factors for governors and state leaders to consider when balancing state budgets and making difficult decisions about funding Medicaid during the COVID-19 crisis and subsequent economic downturn.
State Strategies To Advance Health Data Interoperability
This paper shares strategies that governors and other state leaders can pursue to expand access to data and technology to improve public health.
Case Study: Building Strong Brains Tennessee
This report highlights a program in Tennessee as a model of success for taking on adverse childhood events (ACEs).
A Case Study of the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities
This brief draws its key findings from the Michigan Coronavirus Racial Disparities Interim Report and other sources to explore Michigan’s approach, key features, results to date, and lessons learned.
COVID-19 Outbreaks: State Reporting by Setting
This report discusses the states who are are reporting setting-specific COVID-19 outbreaks as of November 2020 and highlights promising examples that others can look to as they consider adapting and expanding COVID-19 reporting.
Understanding The Effects Of Medicaid Innovation
This report explores key considerations and outlines promising tactics for states to use in evaluating new Medicaid policies.
Improving Outcomes and Reducing Cost of Care for Complex Care Populations With Behavioral Health and Social Support Needs: Toolkit for Governors
This report features lessons learned from Arizona and Michigan and supplements earlier materials on building complex care programs and using a housing as health care approach for complex care populations.
Key Steps and Considerations for Building a COVID-19 Contact Tracing Workforce: A Primer for Governors
This report outlines six key steps for governors to build and support a contact tracing workforce to respond to COVID-19.