NGA ISSUE LIBRARY
Our nation’s Governors are dedicated to leading bipartisan solutions that improve citizens’ lives. Through NGA, Governors identify priority issues and deal with matters of public policy and governance at the state, national and global levels. NGA teams work side-by-side with state leaders to identify challenges and develop solutions. View NGA products below, filterable by content type and topic.
Current Legal Protections And Opportunities For Supporting Workers
(Download) To explore how Governors and state leaders may better understand and support the on-demand workforce, in 2018 the National ...
The Future of State Telehealth Policy
This paper summarizes the types of telehealth policy flexibilities provided by states and the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Information Systems and Data Flow for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Administration
The paper discusses systems and data flow implications for vaccine allocation, distribution, administration, tracking, and reporting, including a visual depiction ...
State Covid-19 Testing Web Resources
This list contains links to state and territory web resource pages for COVID-19 testing. The web resource pages provide information ...
Informing Health Care Workforce Policy by Leveraging Data: A Toolkit for States
By collecting standardized information on licensed health care professionals, states can streamline health care workforce data collection and analysis to ...
Supporting State Behavioral Health Systems During COVID-19 Response and Recovery
This paper identifies for Governors the key issues that are currently challenging state behavioral health systems, along with actions that ...
Governor Strategies to Expand Affordable Broadband Access
Access to high quality, affordable broadband unlocks access to commerce, remote work opportunities, remote and improved education, telehealth, intelligent agriculture, ...
COVID-19 K-12 SCHOOL OPENING AND CLOSING POLICIES
Summary of Established State Thresholds (View/Download) Introduction As the country continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring high-quality K-12 education ...
Understanding the Effects of Medicaid Innovation
Considerations for Evaluating State Medicaid Policies (View/Download) Executive Summary Section 1115 Medicaid demonstrations are important vehicles for experimenting with new ...
Registered Apprenticeship Reimagined
Lessons Learned from the American Apprenticeship Initiative (View/Download) Introduction Registered apprenticeship has traditionally experienced the most popularity in the skilled ...
Monoclonal Antibody Therapies for COVID-19: What Governors Need to Know
Governors and other state health officials should proactively engage health system leaders, public health experts, and local and community leaders ...
Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Development
This memo provides a high-level summary of national efforts to spur development and accelerated development processes, information on COVID-19 vaccine ...
