News from NACCHO

• Join NACCHO, ASTHO, Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), and the National Association of State Minority Health Offices (NASMOH) on Tuesday, May 19 (2:00pm ET) for COVID-19 and Health Equity: Response and Recovery Tele-Townhall. Speakers will discuss how federal, state, and local partners and national organizations can collectively drive an equity-focused recovery strategy. State, local and city leaders will focus on the structural barriers to the COVID-19 response and the impact on marginalized communities, community engagement, data, and recovery strategies to address testing and contact tracing.
  
• NACCHO, ASTHO, APHL, CSTE, and NCSD sent a request to Congress highlighting the need for at least $7.6 billion in additional federal support to support the contact tracing workforce across the country as part of the COVID-19 response efforts. The request lays out the need for at least 100,000 additional front-line contact tracers, 10,000 disease intervention specialist supervisors, and 1,600 epidemiologists to rapidly build contact tracing capacity.

Guidance & News

• HHS
  • Novel Coronavirus Resources
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection for the Healthcare and Public Health Sectors
• FDA
  • New Action to Accelerate the Development of Novel Prevention, Treatment Options for COVID-19
  • Updates on Surveillance Inspections During COVID-19
• CDC
  • Information on Visiting Parks and Recreational Facilities

• Federal Guidance Compilation

  • May 13

Tools/Resources

• Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Seeking Partners for Virtual Social Impact Internship (apply for an intern to help your LHD)
• CDC - Communication Resource Center (sign-up required, but it’s free and includes brandable COVID-19 resources for LHDs)
• Public Health Foundation - COVID-19 Trainings
• Vital Strategies - COVID-19 Contact Tracing Playbook
• Johns Hopkins University - Free COVID-19 Contact Tracing Course
• Prevent Epidemics - Contact Tracing Staffing Calculator
• City of Nebraska - COVID-19 Risk Dial
• Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University - A Supplement to the Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience
• Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies - COVID-19 and the Unequal Surge in Mortality Rates in Massachusetts, by city/town and ZIP Code measures of poverty, household crowding, race/ethnicity and racialized economic segregation (Working Paper)

Trainings/Webinars

• Multi-State Partnerships for Prevention: COVID-19 Technology and Affordable PPE (May 18, 12:00pm ET or May 19, 8:30am ET)
• NACCHO, ASTHO, BCHC & NASMOH: COVID-19 and Health Equity: Response and Recovery Tele-Townhall (May 19, 2:00-3:30pm ET)
• Big Cities Health Coalition: Views from the Big Cities: Seattle-King County (May 20, 1:00pm ET)
• NACCHO & LHD Academy of Science: COVID-19 Data Collection and Best Practices (May 20, 2:00pm ET)
• Trust for America’s Health: COVID-19 and the Impact on Communities of Color: Our Nation’s Inequities Exposed (May 20, 2:00-3:30pm ET)
• NACCHO Model Aquatic Health Code Network: Healthy & Safe Swimming at Public Aquatic Venues During COVID-19 (May 22, 1:00-2:00pm ET)
• HHS: Funding Sources for the Establishment and Operationalization of Alternate Care Sites (May 22, 2:30-3:45pm ET)
• CityHealth: The Road to Earned Sick Leave: What We’ve Learned (May 28, 12:30pm ET)