Policy Review & Purpose

1. APHL will monitor for potentially informatics-relevant federal publications

   1. More efficient at a high level - of 28k publications in 2022, 7k mentioned “public health”

2. APHL will identify policies to comment on and will develop a policy summary and questions

2. We’d greatly appreciate your feedback and help identifying potential impacts - all of our letters will be stronger when we learn about each other’s work, agency processes, impacted workflows, public health practices, and more

3. After gathering feedback, APHL will develop and approve an APHL policy comment, here

3. We strongly encourage you to submit comments - we’ll provide tools to help

4. APHL comments and discussions with peers can be a template for your personal (identified or anonymous) and organizational comments - must be unique to be useful

Member Benefits

4. Increased awareness of federal policy-making processes and opportunities for comment

5. More timely response templates in the form of APHL comment letters that might help launch your organization’s letter-writing and may be timely enough to meet your agency review procedures

6. Increased awareness of types of comments and education about personal comments, including anonymous commenting - empowering!

7. Potential to improve federal alignment with PH needs - no guarantees as policymakers integrate all comments including industry and lobbying groups and the public

8. Potential for unique skill development - policy-writing is an art and a science and comments may be the start to an interesting career challenge - contact us to discuss a policy workgroup

Introduction

Under each policy, you’ll see a template of questions we’ve identified. We want your input on those specifically, but also on other impacts you may identify, especially what is missing from the policy overall (ie 'policy-writers forgot to include XYZ, impact is poorer data quality, etc.).

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