Policy Engagement Project Overview

The policy engagement space is a place for collaboration and engagement with the new policy engagement project.

This project is intended to increase the visibility of APHL in the policy analysis space, educate PHAs and PHLs about potential federal policies, published policy, and other potential feedback opportunities, as well as provide educational materials to support use of APHL’s comments to springboard organizational or personal comment submissions.

APHL will use this space to engage with and coordinate with partners such as CSTE and JPIT 2.0 and others.

• Brooke’s notes on what to put here from email… .

Policy Engagement Project Goal:

At the highest level, the intent of this project is to increase the impact and visibility of public health (including intermediaries, STLTs PHA/Ls) in the eyes of federal policymakers to better align federal policy with public health’s needs.

Policy-Interested Parties

• APHL informatics team and leadership, potentially others

• STLTs PHAs staff and agency leaders

• STLTs PHLs staff and laboratory directors

• Federal partners such as CSTE, ASTHO, and others

• Federal public health partners at CDC

• Potentially others, including members of JPHIT2.0

Policy Engagement Team Contacts and Space Accesses

• (link, once those are determined, or could include people like the PM here and link to the access group macro on another page, TBD)

Policy Engagement Team:

• Overview of team’s work/steps of work the team performs

• Detailed procedures for performing that work

• Project Management pages

Option 3: Internal Team Navigation (manual links option)

1. Policy monitoring including scope

2. In-process questions and comments (final versions are linked from public home)

   1. Template of page and sub-pages to clone and rename when new policy is approved

3. Project management

   1. Documents including PMP, Discovery, and examples (etor examples for reference)

   2. Meeting notes and decisions

Conceptual flow with approvals and external (to team and partners) interactions highlighted – open in a new tab to view detail at a readable magnification.