August 11, 2014 ASTHO Activities, Products, and Services.

August 11, 2014

ASTHO Activities, Products, and

Services

ASTHO At-A-Glance

Located in Arlington, VA100 employees and growingProvide on-site and remote technical assistance to

state and territorial health agencies

Program areasCommunity Health and PreventionHealth Systems TransformationPublic Health PracticeScience 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 OfficerFinance/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 Director Chief of Staff

Chief Health Promotion andDisease Prevention

Family & Child Health

2014 May

Please check out the ASTHO Resources!

Select copies available

Chronic DiseaseTobacco

Chronic DiseasePatient Navigators and Community Health Workers

Chronic DiseasePreventing Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse, and Diversion

Environmental HealthFood safety

Environmental HealthMosquito-borne disease outbreak

Infectious Disease and Immunizations

Integration of Public Health and Primary Care


Infectious Disease Infrastructure Communications Toolkit


Hepatitis C


Immunization Resource Guide


Global Infectious Disease

Maternal and Child HealthHealthy 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

http://www.astho.org/stories/



ASTHO Have You Shared StoriesStory examples:

Guam Addresses Rising E-Cigarette Use with Leadership from Health Director̶CFacing 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 Process̶CBy 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

ASTHO Peer Networks

ASTHO provides administrative support for a number of health agency peer networks

Accreditation CoordinatorsChief Financial OfficersDirectors of Public Health PreparednessEmergency Medical Counter MeasuresEnvironmental Health DirectorsHuman Resource DirectorsInformatics DirectorsLegislative LiaisonsSenior Deputies

ASTHO Peer Networks

Accreditation CoordinatorsOpen to state and territorial Accreditation CoordinatorsEnhance knowledge of the PHAB Accreditation processExchange 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 conversationsResource and document upload/downloadLinks to online toolsCalendar of national level accreditation and QI related events

http://asthoaclc.ning.com/



ASTHO Peer Networks

Chief Financial OfficersExpand the value that S/T CFO’s bring to improving health outcomes

by demonstrating the financial value of public healthAddress challenges related to budget cuts, public health financing, and

fiscal management

PrioritiesCommunication with federal partnersMember networking/sharing best practices

ASTHO Peer Networks

Directors of Public Health PreparednessImproved 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

ActivitiesConvene 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 CommitteeEnhanced 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

ActivitiesConvene monthly conference callsConvene workgroups to explore topics of interest to the eMCM

steering committeeMaintain and update Whole of Community Inclusion website and

activities in conjunction with NACCHO

ASTHO Peer Networks

Environmental Health DirectorsEnhance relationships and communication among states and partnersProvide a forum for discussion of key environmental health issues and

sharing of best practices

PrioritiesSafe food and waterHealthy communitiesClimate and healthEnvironmental health workforceChemical exposures

ASTHO Peer Networks

Human Resource DirectorsShare information on HR trends, workforce development strategies,

and the public health worker shortage

PrioritiesWorkforce development trainingAccreditationOnboarding strategiesSuccession planning

ASTHO Peer Networks

Informatics DirectorsThe 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

PrioritiesTechnical 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 LiaisonsResponsible for public health policy development, including advocacy

in their respective legislatures and often responsibility related to health agency regulatory functions

ActivitiesStanding conference calls every six weeksLegislative Liaison Annual MeetingListserv for rapid peer-to-peer technical assistanceEnd-of-session legislative summaryLegislative and regulatory prospectus

ASTHO Peer NetworksSenior 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

PrioritiesActively support the ASTHO Board of Directors, standing committees,

and the Presidential ChallengePromote strategies and tools that improve the performance of state

health agenciesServe 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

August 11, 2014 ASTHO Activities, Products, and Services.

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