August 11, 2014 ASTHO Activities, Products, and Services

ASTHO At-A-Glance Located in Arlington, VA 100 employees and growing Provide on-site and remote technical assistance to state and territorial health agencies Program areas  Community Health and Prevention  Health Systems Transformation  Public Health Practice  Science and Strategy

Executive Director Chief Public Health Practice Preparedness Environmental Health Immunization & Infectious Diseases Chief Community Health & Prevention Health Improvement Performance & Quality ORGANIZATIONAL CHART Chief Health Systems Transformation Health Integration Informatics State Health Policy Administrative Coordinator/Scheduler Communications Chief Financial Officer Finance/Grants Human Resources Development Member Services Meeting Services IT & Facilities Governance Federal Government Relations Health Transformation Chief Science & Strategy Planning & Evaluation Research & Evaluation Survey Research Workforce Research Associate Executive DirectorChief of Staff Chief Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Family & Child Health 2014 May

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Chronic Disease Tobacco

Chronic Disease Tobacco

Chronic Disease Patient Navigators and Community Health Workers

Chronic Disease Preventing Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse, and Diversion

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Environmental Health Food safety

Environmental Health Mosquito-borne disease outbreak

Infectious Disease and Immunizations Integration of Public Health and Primary Care

Infectious Disease and Immunizations Infectious Disease Infrastructure Communications Toolkit

Infectious Disease and Immunizations Hepatitis C

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Infectious Disease and Immunizations Immunization Resource Guide

Infectious Disease and Immunizations Global Infectious Disease

Maternal and Child Health Healthy Babies Website

Performance and Quality Improvement Quality Improvement (QI) Plan Toolkit: Guidance and Resources to Assist State and Territorial Health Agencies in Developing a Quality Improvement Plan

ASTHO Have You Shared Stories ASTHO’s “Have You Shared” initiative systematically collects and disseminates stories that highlight promising and useful practices and implementation strategies developed by state and territory health agencies The initiative captures stories from all ASTHO content areas

ASTHO Have You Shared Stories Story examples:  Guam Addresses Rising E-Cigarette Use with Leadership from Health Director ̶Facing high levels of e-cigarette use among middle and high school students, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services is working with partners to address the issue on the island  Quality Improvement in Kentucky: Streamlining the Grant Process ̶By using quality improvement tools to focus on the challenges agency staff faced when applying for grant funding, the Kentucky Department for Public Health was able to standardize and improve the process

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ASTHO Peer Networks ASTHO provides administrative support for a number of health agency peer networks Accreditation Coordinators Chief Financial Officers Directors of Public Health Preparedness Emergency Medical Counter Measures Environmental Health Directors Human Resource Directors Informatics Directors Legislative Liaisons Senior Deputies

ASTHO Peer Networks Accreditation Coordinators  Open to state and territorial Accreditation Coordinators  Enhance knowledge of the PHAB Accreditation process  Exchange accreditation related resources and engage with colleagues for the purposes of successfully serving as an accreditation coordinator and leading an accreditation process ASTHO maintains an online community for this group, featuring:  Topic related conversations  Resource and document upload/download  Links to online tools  Calendar of national level accreditation and QI related events

ASTHO Peer Networks Chief Financial Officers  Expand the value that S/T CFO’s bring to improving health outcomes by demonstrating the financial value of public health  Address challenges related to budget cuts, public health financing, and fiscal management Priorities  Communication with federal partners  Member networking/sharing best practices

ASTHO Peer Networks Directors of Public Health Preparedness  Improved coordination in planning and response through the increased application of best practices to show program improvement; aligning programmatic priorities and resources  Improved capabilities in S/T public health preparedness departments by increasing effectiveness of individual directors/departments Activities  Convene monthly conference calls (DPHP and DPHP EC)  Coordinate feedback on CDC PHEP and ASPR HPP cooperative agreement guidance documents, capabilities, and performance measures  Convene the DPHP Annual meeting for the purposes of sharing best practices

ASTHO Peer Networks Emergency Medical Counter Measures (eMCM) Steering Committee  Enhanced linkage between state and territorial health departments and federal agencies, resulting in an increased capacity of health agencies’ to effectively receive, store, stage, and deploy assets from the CDC SNS Activities  Convene monthly conference calls  Convene workgroups to explore topics of interest to the eMCM steering committee  Maintain and update Whole of Community Inclusion website and activities in conjunction with NACCHO

ASTHO Peer Networks Environmental Health Directors  Enhance relationships and communication among states and partners  Provide a forum for discussion of key environmental health issues and sharing of best practices Priorities  Safe food and water  Healthy communities  Climate and health  Environmental health workforce  Chemical exposures

ASTHO Peer Networks Human Resource Directors  Share information on HR trends, workforce development strategies, and the public health worker shortage Priorities  Workforce development training  Accreditation  Onboarding strategies  Succession planning

ASTHO Peer Networks Informatics Directors  The Informatics Directors serves as a conduit for collaboration on key technical public health informatics challenges to identify and create solutions that can be utilized and replicated in health agencies Priorities  Technical and strategic aspects of informatics in health agencies, such as creating an informatics office and assessing the agency informatics capacity  Feedback from the network has been utilized to inform policy briefs, workforce initiatives, and to gather feedback on state success stories and needs

ASTHO Peer Networks Legislative Liaisons  Responsible for public health policy development, including advocacy in their respective legislatures and often responsibility related to health agency regulatory functions Activities  Standing conference calls every six weeks  Legislative Liaison Annual Meeting  Listserv for rapid peer-to-peer technical assistance  End-of-session legislative summary  Legislative and regulatory prospectus

ASTHO Peer Networks Senior Deputies  Provides support and counsel to ASTHO’s members and assists the ASTHO Executive Committee by addressing key operational and cross- cutting programmatic issues of national significance affecting state and territorial health agencies Priorities  Actively support the ASTHO Board of Directors, standing committees, and the Presidential Challenge  Promote strategies and tools that improve the performance of state health agencies  Serve as the “operational agent” for ASTHO and provide feedback to OSTLTS on operational issues with guidance from the ASTHO Board of Directors and to provide feedback to the Board on specific issues  Serve as a resource and sounding board to ASTHO in the development of extramural funding opportunities, such as grants and cooperative agreements, and other initiatives

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