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Strengthening Public Health Communication: Oklahoma’s Strategy and Lessons Learned ASTHO Staff Communications is a foundational capability for all health departments, essential for supporting public health protections, programs, and activities that ensure community well-being and promote equitable outcomes. To educate their communities and encourage healthy behaviors, health departments must communicate clearly and effectively. After COVID-19, the Oklahoma State Department of Health revisited and modernized its communication strategies. This video shares their journey, including the process they followed, best practices they adopted, outcomes achieved, and lessons learned—offering valuable insights for other Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) recipients aiming to enhance their communications capabilities. OE22-2203 PHIG article yes

Use this interactive tool to identify opportunities to improve your department's suicide prevention programs.

Enhance your capacity to address menthol tobacco use—ASTHO is here to equip you with the necessary knowledge, tools, and strategies.

This white paper shares how states have identified a number of successes, challenges, and lessons learned about how to effectively use health information systems (HIS) to improve hypertension identification, management, and control.

ASTHO works with key partners to support state and territorial health agencies in their role as key leaders in helping citizens prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Partnerships between state health agencies and public and private payers are critical to effective statewide efforts to improve hypertension identification and control. This white paper describes opportunities, strategies, and example partnerships identified through the ASTHO Million Hearts Learning Collaborative.

ASTHO provides capacity building and technical assistance to health agencies to build strong, evidence-based overdose and substance use prevention programs.

The Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) helps local, state, and territorial health agencies better understand their capacity to address suicide, overdose, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Prevention of these health issues involves cross-sector collaboration targeting factors at the individual, relationship, community, and societal levels.

Cross-Sector Partnerships to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences ASTHO fosters cross-collaboration through various activities focused on assessing, building, and sustaining partnerships. By building strong partnerships, ASTHO leverages partners to gain insight and bridge the gap in expertise. website

ASTHO helps health agencies promote policies that address the root causes of negative behaviors and health outcomes through compassionate and comprehensive preventative strategies.

ASTHO convened a Million Hearts Advisory Roundtable to find innovative strategies for public health and primary care integration to support the Million Hearts initiative. Key recommendations from this action-oriented meeting outline possible roles for how state health agencies can support the goals of Million Hearts.

Primary care practitioners are important allies for public health agencies, and ASTHO provides a portfolio of resources to help reinforce that critical relationship.

Questionnaire for weekly phone interview with participants enrolled in the peer coaching program.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized, telehealth is a key resource to providing quality care for the public, particularly historically underserved populations.

Adverse Childhood Experiences Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially stressful or traumatic incidents that harm social, cognitive, and emotional functioning and undermine the safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments children need to thrive. ASTHO works with state, territorial, and freely associated state health agency leadership, their staff, and cross-sector partners to strengthen jurisdiction-level infrastructure to elevate ACEs prevention. ASTHO also aims to increase knowledge and inspire ACEs programmatic, legislative, and leadership staff to establish policies upstream. Visit ASTHO's ACEs prevention web pages on policy, partnerships, and data to learn more. The Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) helps local, state, and territorial health agencies better understand their capacity to address suicide, overdose, and ACEs. This is crucial because prevention involves cross-sector collaboration targeting factors at the individual, relationship, community, and societal levels. website

This Adverse Childhood Experiences Capacity Assessment Tool (ACECAT) roadmap provides concrete steps to completing the ACECAT asynchronously and helps health agencies identify opportunities to work on this public health issue to maximize resources and impact.

Access these key resources for addressing the intersection of ACEs, suicide, overdose, and mental health-related concerns.

Public health agencies share a special partnership with Medicaid, which can be utilized to increase access to care and promote health equity.

Medicaid Data Sharing and Analysis Sharing Medicaid data with public health agencies helps more comprehensively assess population needs, tailor services to the population of focus, and monitor progress on joint initiatives. ASTHO provides resources and specific case examples for states of how Medicaid datasets can be used as a tool to drive population health improvement. article False

Dental clinic blood pressure screening protocol, developed by North Dakota Department of Health and used by Valley Community Health Centers in North Dakota.