By Nadia Rojas, Tina Yuen, and Rebecca Johnson, ChangeLab Solutions, May 21, 2020
Throughout this blog series, we have discussed individual policy areas in which local governments can respond to the pandemic, including housing and utilities, paid leave protections, protections for food workers, repealing 911 nuisance laws, and equitable enforcement strategies. However, these policies are just the beginning of what local governments can do to address the complex, wide-ranging problems created by COVID-19.
Ultimately, what we need is an all-hands-on-deck response to the pandemic. One way to achieve comprehensive solutions is to use the approach that public health practitioners call Health in All Policies (HiAP). This transformative, collaborative approach to community improvement incorporates considerations like health, equity, and resilience into decisionmaking across government agencies and policy areas. At its core, HiAP is about practicing a whole-of-government approach to solving our biggest challenges — the problems that are so big and complicated that no one government agency, department, office, or group can fix them on its own.
The era of COVID-19 requires every part of government to work together in a coordinated way toward shared response and recovery goals. Every local government agency and institution has a role to play in this effort. Here are just a few examples of the innovative responses of local government departments to the crisis...
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