Looking for a professional new year’s resolution? Consider learning more about your state’s approach—or even your own health department’s approach—to Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) and what you can do to support the field’s movement toward a shared vision of a consistent and sustainable public health infrastructure that also can meet unique community-specific needs.

Act for Public Health has been exploring FPHS since practitioners asked what they should be doing in response to backlash against the use of public health authority to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.