Big Cities Health Coalition
The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) is a forum for the leaders of America’s largest metropolitan health departments to exchange strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the 62 million people they serve. Together, these public health officials directly affect the health and well-being of one in six Americans. The BCHC is affiliated to the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Posts in this series are published with permission from BCHC and originally appeared on the Front Lines Blog. Please visit Big Cities Health Coalition and the Front Lines Blog for more information about the work they’re doing to improve population health.
Read all columns in this series:
- How Health Departments Are Addressing Substance Use Disorder and Overdose During a Pandemic
- We Can Strengthen Communities by Committing to Equity
- Turning the Page on a Challenging Year
- To Turn the Corner on COVID-19, We Need to Agree on Priorities
- It’s (Already) Time to Call the Game
- Five Months In, Our Pandemic Battle Is Far From Over
- To Prevent Overdose Deaths, Buprenorphine Policy Must Change
- Local Leaders Start Scaling Up the Public Health Response to Coronavirus
- Measles: How Local Health Departments Are Responding to this Latest Public Health Outbreak
- Investing Early to Prevent Hepatitis A Outbreaks Among People Living Homeless
- Improving Health for African American Women in Columbus, Ohio: Interview with Dr. Mysheika Roberts
- Now Is the Time to Tell Policymakers that Trauma Matters to Our Health
- Wrapping Up the Highs and Lows of Urban Public Health in 2018
- New Report: Shortage of “Disease Detectives” in Local Health Departments Puts Cities at Risk
- Let Schools Be Places for Learning—Not “JUULing”
- Child Development-Community Policing: How One Local Health Department Joins Local Police on the Front Line in the War on ACEs