Contact Tracing to Ease Social Distancing

Dr. Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) provides an overview of the need for contact tracing in the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the opportunity to build the capacity of the future public health workforce. Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman, Health Officer of the Anne Arundel County Department of Health, outlines the county level approach to contact tracing in Anne Arundel County and presents unique challenges and opportunities of the experience to date.

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relevant resources

• ASTHO Memo to Congress  
• A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact tracing in the US 
• A Coordinated, National Approach to Scaling Public Health Capacity for Contact Tracing and Disease Investigation 
• NACCHO Position Statement on Contact Tracing 
• NYT: An Army of Virus Tracers Takes Shape in Massachusetts   
• Modern Healthcare: Reopening could require thousands more public health workers