Community Based Organizations

On this podcast John Fangman, MD discusses opportunities for Medicaid program to cover health-related social needs, such as housing, nutrition and transportation with Katie Garfield, JD, Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School’s Whole Person Care initiative and Michelle Collins-Ogle, MD, Director Montefiore Adolescent & Youth Sexual-health Clinic and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

This toolkit is designed for new viral hepatitis health department staff to help them get oriented in their new role. It includes basic information, recommendations, key national partners, CDC funding opportunities, and where to go for help.

This webinar slide set addresses client consent policies for public health data use and sharing. Speakers representing both provider and health department perspectives discuss different approaches to client consent as well as considerations to ensure that client consent for data sharing follows both legal and ethical public health requirements.

This webinar addresses client consent policies for public health data use and sharing. Speakers representing both provider and health department perspectives discuss different approaches to client consent as well as considerations to ensure that client consent for data sharing follows both legal and ethical public health requirements.

Completed with support from SAMHSA and the Opioid Response Network, this document presents first-hand narratives, research, and recommendations to understand and explore housing provision as a comprehensive health and overdose prevention strategy. The resource can be used as a series of topic-specific guidance documents or as an overview of person-centered approaches to housing, drug user health, and HIV care.

Achieving zero stigma is a goal of all HIV prevention and treatment services.  In response, this dashboard will visually represent stigma-related data for the communities most impacted by HIV and to demonstrate progress to mitigating stigmas across different geographic regions. 

This webpage discusses how Atlanta and its counties, Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton, have been identified by the federal government as one of over 45 counties in the nation with the highest incidence of HIV infections.

This webpage discusses the HIV care continuum and how it is a public health model that outlines the stages of care that people living with HIV go through from diagnosis to achieving and maintaining viral suppression. Guiding an individual through the care continuum is key to helping them achieve viral suppression, which not only helps them experience better health outcomes but also reduces their risk of transmitting HIV to others.

This webpage discusses health equity as it pertains to HIV.

This webpage discusses how the South experiences a higher burden of HIV compared to other regions across the country, especially among communities of color.