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Chelsea Cipriano, managing director of the Common Health Coalition, tells us about ASTHO’s inclusion in the group that aims to build a bridge between healthcare and public health; Megan Wolfe, senior policy development manager for Trust for...
Chelsea Cipriano, managing director of the Common Health Coalition, tells us about ASTHO’s inclusion in the group that aims to build a bridge between healthcare and public health; Megan Wolfe, senior policy development manager for Trust for America’s Health, says Trust for America's Health has made ASTHO the first national public health organization to win recognition for its healthy aging policy work; ASTHO members and the federal government are taking action to bolster the public health workforce; and an ASTHO report outlines how New Jersey will expand access to contraception under laws passed in 2022 and 2023.
ASTHO Blog Article: State Policies Bolster Rural Healthcare Workforce
SUMMER JOHNSON:
This is the award-winning Public Health Review Morning Edition for Thursday, July 11, 2024. I'm Summer Johnson. Now, today's news from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
CHELSEA CIPRIANO:
The coalition has now grown from the five founding members to over 50 members across the country.
JOHNSON:
The newly created Common Health Coalition is growing fast. Chelsea Cipriano is the coalition's managing director.
CIPRIANO:
Our goal for the coalition is to act as a bridge between health care and public health to ensure that health system broadly, really uses lessons that we learned from past crises like COVID-19 to better prevent and respond to health crises today and tomorrow.
JOHNSON:
ASCO is a member of the group that was launched by five organizations last year. Its members represent all facets of health care.
CIPRIANO:
APHA, Trust for America's Health, Big Cities Health Coalition, [...], CSTE, all the large members, and also, you know, state and local members as well. We have the Michigan Public Health Advisory Council and the Oregon Health Authority, Dallas County Health and Human Services. We have health insurers and health plans, provider groups. So, we're really looking forward to this group growing.
JOHNSON:
Cipriano says it's important for everyone in this space to come together before the next crisis.
CIPRIANO:
This is the time to act, we cannot let our nation slipped into an amnesia about the innovation the offense scrappiness, the creativity that came out of the COVID-19 response and responses since and before.
JOHNSON:
Learn how to join the coalition by visiting the link in the show notes.
ASTHO is the first National Public Health Organization to win recognition for its healthy-aging policy work the award coming from the Trust for America's health. Megan Wolfe is with TFAH.
MEGAN WOLFE:
We encourage that healthy aging team to consider enrolling in the program based on the great work that they have done in helping public health officials and practitioners understand healthy aging and then build expertise in specific areas like asked it was that a lot of work in fall prevention and brain health.
JOHNSON:
Wolfe says the recognition program promotes alignment with TFAH's age-friendly public health system framework.
WOLFE:
Every organization that applies for recognition has to complete an action plan. That is pretty straightforward. It's just identifying at least one activity within each of the six tenants of our framework.
JOHNSON:
Get more information about the framework and the recognition program by clicking the link in the show notes. Also, today ASTHO members and the federal government are taking action to bolster the public health workforce, learn about programs and proposed laws to support rural health care in a new ASTHO blog article. Read it using the link in the show notes.
Finally, this morning, New Jersey will expand access to contraception under laws passed in 2022 and 2023. Lessons from that policy work are captured in a new ASTHO report developed in partnership with the Center for Health Care strategies. Liz Gipson is a senior program officer there.
LIZ GIPSON:
We wanted to explore how state health officials are working to advance access to contraceptive care and we knew that New Jersey was doing some exciting stuff.
JOHNSON:
Find out how the New Jersey statutes are helping to improve reproductive health in this state. Download the ASTHO report using the link in the show notes.
Before we go a reminder also to follow this newscast on your podcast player and connect with ASTHO on social media. We're on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X. That'll do it for today. We're back tomorrow morning with more acetone news and information. I'm Summer Johnson. You're listening to the award-winning Public Health Review Morning Edition. Have a great day.
