Studying public-sector administrative, regulatory, and procurement practices to help achieve successful alignment of health care and social services

Public and Community Health. To develop options for how leaders of health care and human services and state policymakers can strengthen the human services sector's ability to meet community needs and to align with health care in meeting those needs by (1) characterizing states' administrative structures and practices that shape human services delivery and the human services sector's collaboration with health care and public health; (2) fully describing those practices and changes that have occurred in response to COVID-19 and how they affect equity; and (3) developing profiles of state-level nongovernmental human services networks and their policy priorities prior to and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.