External Resources

Active Living Research Tools and Measures

The Active Living Research: Promoting active-friendly communities website contains observational tools and surveys to assess the environment or physical activity.

View the website
Bridging the Gap: Research informing Policies and Practices for Healthy Youth

Bridging the GAP offers research briefs and products regarding policies and environmental factors that influence physical activity among youth.

View the website
WHO Website on Cervical Cancer

The Word Health Organization has a plan to reduce deaths caused by cervical cancer.

View the website
State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables, 2018

CDC’s State Indicator Report provides information on 10 indicators of fruit and vegetable access and production for all 50 states and provides recommendations for improvements.

View the report
The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America

State obesity data, rates, and trends are available through a project from Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

View the website
Advocacy Communications for Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change

This training covers provides guidance for developing and implementing an advocacy communications strategy to create policy, systems, and environmental change. The course includes interactive exercises as well as a podcast component focused on the concepts of policy surveillance and legal epidemiology.

View the training
The Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit

Use the Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit as a catalyst for your team or organization’s design thinking around training and learning; to help inform the creation and implementation of your training plans, workforce development plans, and health improvement plans; to better align individual and organizational learning opportunities in response to your community challenges; and to help develop an adaptive public health workforce that is resilient and has the capacity to assess, explore, and lead through multi-pronged, evolving challenges.

View the Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit
The Public Health Learning Agenda Webinar

Aimed at local, state, and tribal public health professionals and educators, this webinar reviews the origins of the Public Health Learning Agenda toolkit and explains its key elements. The webinar also includes information about how to be involved in future pilot testing efforts involving the toolkit.

View a recording of the webinar