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Lessons From Kentucky's Public Health Surveillance and Community Prevention

Route Fifty: Earlier this month, National Governors Association selected seven states to participate in a learning lab focused on state strategies to manage infectious diseases related to substance abuse.

In addition to a field visit to Kentucky that will look at how public health surveillance and community prevention efforts have been used to address the risk of infectious disease risk associated with substance abuse, including the opioid epidemic, the states will receive six months of technical assistance in creating and executing an action plan.

The NGA chose Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Michigan, Utah, Virginia and Washington to participate in the learning lab.

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