Publication Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Publication Authors: Brianna Rooney, Bryna Koch, Mona Arora, Jennifer Peters, Daniel Derksen
This summary expands on the Public Health System Capacity in Arizona: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic Response and uses a prioritization matrix to identify the most feasible and impactful interventions to improve public health system capacity in Arizona.
This summary categorizes the final recommendations to improve public health system capacity from the Public Health System Capacity in Arizona: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic Response. This report summarized findings from interviews with nine public health system stakeholders who were members of the Capacity Assessment Advisory Team (CAAT), representing local and tribal health departments, federally qualified health centers, and civic and academic organizations. These action-oriented recommendations to strengthen Arizona’s public health system capacity were classified and prioritized based on a 2-dimensional assessment: impact and feasibility.
The Advancing Health Equity, Addressing Disparities (AHEAD AZ) project is housed in the Arizona Center for Rural Health (AzCRH) at the University of Arizona. The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) funded this report via an interagency services agreement with AzCRH as part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) national initiative to address COVID-19 health disparities among populations at high risk for morbidity and mortality.