Resources

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Implementers reflect on successes, challenges, and share key lessons learned from COVID-19 care resource coordination programs.

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vaccine toolkit

A set of practical tools and guidelines developed with and for public health implementers to promote an equitable vaccine rollout.

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cascade toolkit

A set of integrated public health tools essential for controlling COVID-19 and strengthening our ability to respond to future outbreaks.

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Training
Town Hall Facilitation Guidelines
Monday, March 1, 2021

This facilitation guide can help you organize and host a town hall in your community, to disseminate information and address questions and concerns about COVID-19 vaccination. 

Policies and memo
Recommendations for the Implementation of Sections of the American Rescue Plan Act
Monday, March 1, 2021

To combat COVID-19 and advance health equity and racial justice, we believe that certain approaches in implementation are essential. Read our asks.

Tools and protocols
Equity mapping: Visualizing community vulnerability to COVID-19 and vaccine access
Monday, March 1, 2021

Mapping is a data visualization approach that adds important context to quantitative data; it can spark discussion and drive collaborative planning among community stakeholders with the shared goal of improving vaccine access. 

Tools and protocols
Community-based COVID-19 Vaccination Manual
Monday, March 1, 2021

 

Created in partnership with Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), this operations manual details the essential components and considerations in establishing and operating vaccination sites in partnership with community stakeholders, and with an eye on equity, access, and cost-effectiveness.
 

Webinar
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: Effective and Equity-driven Operations
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

This session shares practical tools and experiences from a range of programs; we’ll discuss how they have been able to forecast and adapt in a complex supply and regulatory landscape, to staff and resource vaccination sites, to make vaccines accessible to those who may be excluded from typical vaccination opportunities, and to identify useful metrics for distribution that consider social vulnerabilities.

Technical brief
Implementation Spotlight: Community Health Promoters Championing COVID-19 Response Among Florida Farmworkers
Thursday, February 11, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed huge gaps in the US public health and health care systems and highlighted the negative effects of hundreds of years of structural inequities and systemic racism. In particular, this pandemic has disproportionately impacted low-income, migrant, Indigenous, incarcerated communities, and communities of color. Programs and policies should create a preferential option for these groups.

Technical brief
Recommendations for achieving equity in the US COVID-19 vaccine rollout: expanding vaccination access for the most vulnerable and integrating social support programs to build healthier communities
Friday, February 5, 2021

A rare and important opportunity to connect communities and individuals into health and public health systems, vaccination campaigns can be leveraged to improve community trust by building sustainable linkages to care and community resources.

Policies and memo
Public Health Job Corps Memo
Friday, January 22, 2021

An effective public health response to COVID-19 relies on a representative, well-trained and well-managed workforce. We must commit to rapidly and thoughtfully expanding the public health workforce in the United States in response to this pandemic and with an eye toward building stronger public health infrastructure for the future.

Policies and memo
Decarceration White Paper: Seeking Justice in the Era of COVID-19
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed huge gaps in the US public health and health care systems and highlighted the negative effects of hundreds of years of structural inequities and systemic racism. In particular, this pandemic has disproportionately impacted low-income, migrant, Indigenous, incarcerated communities, and communities of color. Programs and policies should create a preferential option for these groups.

Policies and memo
Public Health Jobs Now
Monday, January 4, 2021

A public health jobs corps to build a healthy future.