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NASHP Launches a New Public Health Modernization Project

NASHP

The demands of the pandemic have made it clear that the public health system cannot work in a silo to do the foundational public health work of communicable disease prevention; maternal, child, and family health services; access to and linkage with clinical care; and preventing chronic disease and injury.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity. Funding for state and local health departments decreased 17 percent between 2009 and 2019, while experts estimate that an additional $4.5