Public Health Reports (PHR), the official journal of the office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service, has just released a special issue “Using Public Health Policy to Reduce the Morbidity, Mortality, and Incidence of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works for a future free of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). Policy can have powerful effects on the complex, multisectoral factors that influence the population-level morbidity, mortality, and health disparities of these and other diseases.
The special issue’s guest editors are Drs. Deron C. Burton and Jonathan H. Mermin at the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; and Dr. Hazel D. Dean, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, CDC.
On Monday, August 17, ASPPH will host a national webinar on the special Public Health Reports special issue with several lead authors. The August 17 webinar will run from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. You can register here.
This Public Health Reports special issue includes:
- Policy and Public Health: Reducing the Burden of Infectious Disease
- Surgeon General’s Perspective: Making the Case for Syringe Services Programs
- Protecting the Rights of Health Care Students Living With Hepatitis B Under the Americans With Disabilities Act
- New Reimbursement and Integrated Planning: Policy Approaches to Reduce the Morbidity, Mortality, and Incidence of HIV in Washington, DC
- Law Everywhere: A Causal Framework for Law and Infectious Disease
- Using Mixed Methods and Multidisciplinary Research to Strengthen Policy Assessments Focusing on Populations at High Risk for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Policy Implications of Mathematical Modeling of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing and Treatment Strategies to Accelerate Tuberculosis Elimination
- Enforcement of Legal Remedies to Secure Hepatitis C Virus Treatment With Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapies in Correctional Facilities and Medicaid Programs
- California’s Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act: Implementing a Mandated Condom Access Program in State Prisons, 2015-2016
- Routine Screening in a California Jail: Effect of Local Policy on Identification of Syphilis in a High-Incidence Area, 2016-2017
- Ending the HIV Epidemic: New York’s Quest to Become the First State to Reduce HIV Prevalence
- Leveraging Health Department Capacities, Partnerships, and Health Insurance for Infectious Disease Response in Massachusetts, 2014-2018
- Opt-out Testing Pilot for Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Immigrant Detainees at 2 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Health Service Corps–Staffed Detention Facilities, 2018
- Impact of Targeted Local Interventions on Tuberculosis Awareness and Screening Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness During a Large Tuberculosis Outbreak in Atlanta, Georgia, 2015-2016
- A Rapid Review of the Impact of Systems-Level Policies and Interventions on Population-Level Outcomes Related to the Opioid Epidemic, United States and Canada, 2014-2018
- State Laws Governing Syringe Services Programs and Participant Syringe Possession, 2014-2019
- The Impact of Syringe Services Program Policy on Risk Behaviors Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in 3 US Cities, 2005-2015
- Differential Association of HIV Funding With HIV Mortality by Race/Ethnicity, United States, 1999-2017
- Simulating the End of AIDS in New York: Using Participatory Dynamic Modeling to Improve Implementation of the Ending the Epidemic Initiative
- Modeling the Impact of Recommendations for Primary Care–Based Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in California
- Effect of Policy Change to Require Laboratory Reporting With Pregnancy Indicated for Syphilis and Hepatitis B Virus Infection, New York City, January 2013–June 2018
- Effect of CDC 2006 Revised HIV Testing Recommendations for Adults, Adolescents, Pregnant Women, and Newborns on State Laws, 2018
