290: Healthy Aging Policy Trends

Claire Pendergrast, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Health Improvement and Healthy Aging, discusses a survey of healthy aging policy actions enacted across the states and territories; Dr. LeQuandra Nesbitt, former Director of the District of Columbia Department of Health, considers the relationship between social sciences and decision making in a recent panel hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine while Dr. Erica Pan, California State Epidemiologist, explains how Stanford helped her state study real-time connections between COVID-19 policies and their impact on case rates; the National Academy of Medicine welcomes ASTHO alum Dr. Rachel Levine to its ranks; and ASTHO’s Insight and Inspiration event is Wednesday afternoon, but you can still sign up.

ASTHO Blog Article: States Using Policy to Reduce Dementia’s Disease and Fiscal Impact

ASTHO Webpage: Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) Road Map Module

CDC Webpage: National Healthy Brain Initiative Road Map Series

ASTHO Webpage: Homepage

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Webpage: Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN): Fall 2022 Symposium

National Academy of Medicine Webpage: National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members

ASTHO Webpage: Insight and Inspiration – Conversations for Public Health Leaders