ACP advocates for policies to enhance public health infrastructure

In a new position paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine on July 18, ACP calls for modernizing public health infrastructure. The paper advocates for new policies on establishing federal public health leadership, protecting public health workers, reversing workforce shortages, and integrating primary care and public health.

ACP's paper calls for increased efforts to combat health-related dis- and misinformation, especially through social media platforms. The paper recommends the development of a national public health data system that could share real-time information among public health departments, physicians, hospitals, laboratories, and others. Finally, ACP encourages collaboration between public health and primary care.