In January 2019, The Council of State Governments (CSG) created the CSG Healthy States National Task Force with the purpose of bringing state leaders from across the country together to examine state best practices in the field of health. The task force divided its focus into categories: Leveraging Innovation; State Health Systems Return on Investment; Capacity, Preparedness and Resiliency; and Interventions to Save Lives. At that time, no one could know or truly understand the significance and fortuitousness of this bipartisan initiative and the identified topics.
Enclosed, you will find a framework of recommendations that came as result of those discussions. The framework, given much consideration and analysis by both task force members and CSG staff, serves as a guide for all state leaders in understanding strategies with proven success and promising results that can be customized and to serve communities across the nation.
