NGA最佳实践中心的环境、能源和交通部门(缺钱)提供信息,研究、政策分析、技术援助和资源开发的州长和员工方面的能源、环境和交通行业。 部门关注几个问题,包括提高能源效率,提高传统和替代燃料的使用电力和交通,现代电网发展,扩大能源领域的经济发展机遇,保护和清理环境,探索创新融资机制,能源和基础设施和发展交通系统安全、有效的人员和货物移动。

About the Environment, Energy & Transportation Division

The NGA Center for Best Practices Environment, Energy and Transportation (EET) Division provides

governors and their staff with analysis and information about best practices, tailored technical

assistance, and insights into emerging policy trends across the fields of energy, environmental

protection, and transportation and other infrastructure. The division helps states promote the efficient

use of energy across all sectors, improve the use of traditional and alternative fuels for electricity and

transportation, better protect and clean up the environment, effectively manage their natural

resources, and develop a transportation system that safely and efficiently moves people and goods.

Focus areas include helping states with interest in:

? Expanding and modernizing the electricity power grid, including for cybersecurity

? Examining the need for new utility business models

? Enhancing energy assurance and resiliency

? Improving energy efficiency and renewable energy programs and financing

? Reducing energy use in state buildings and fleets

? Improving the Energy-Water Nexus

? Managing the use of water resources

? Responsibly developing shale energy sources

? Cleaning up and managing radioactive waste through the Federal Facilities Task Force

? Advancing innovative funding and financing methods for transportation and other

? Exploring state transportation solutions involving new technology and techniques

? Expanding the use of alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure

The EET Division offers a variety of learning and networking opportunities via intensive technical

assistance projects, meetings, conference calls, and webinars. The ability of states to learn from the

experience of other states and network with their colleagues is a hallmark of those opportunities.

? Policy Academies, Learning Labs, and In-state Retreats: The division convenes state teams for multiple months (policy academy) or several days (learning lab or in-state retreat) to support indepth

policy exploration and intensive technical assistance on a large-scale policy area.

? Policy Institutes and Workshops: The division hosts an annual policy institute for governors’

energy advisors and other workshops on specific topics to bring governors’ staff together with

subject-matter experts and their peers in the state policymaking community.

? Conference Calls and Webinars: The division routinely hosts conference calls and webinars,

combining the detail and interaction of an in-person workshop with increased convenience for state officials.

NGA staff provide tailored technical assistance to governors’ advisors upon request, using information

about best practices and advice from states and other experts across the country. Assistance can come

in a variety of forms, including brief confidential memos on a specific policy area, comments on draft

legislation or regulations, consultation on a policy development process, or access to outside experts to

The division produces a variety of materials to help evaluate public policy innovations and provide

practical solutions to the most pressing state issues. Documents are focused at the gubernatorial and

executive branch level. The types of documents include:

? Issue Briefs and Papers: The EET Division provides focused documents that provide an

? Reports: The EET Division provides longer research documents that provide a more in-depth

? Expert Consultation: The EET Division has content experts on hand to provide one-on-one

consultations on policy questions upon request.

? Technical Assistance Memos: The EET Division provides tailored policy research memos upon

request that include policy insights and examples of approaches from other states.

Environment, Energy & Transportation Division Contacts

Daniel Lauf

dlauf**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

Jessica Rackley

jrackley**[ta]**.org

Denise McKeown

dmckeown**[ta]**.org

NGA最佳实践中心卫生部门提供信息,研究、政策分析、技术援助和资源开发的州长和员工通过一系列的政策问题。 卫生部门覆盖问题领域的卫生保健服务和改革,包括支付改革,卫生人力规划、质量改进、公共健康和行为健康医疗输送系统中的集成。 其他重点领域包括医疗成本控制、员工和退休人员医疗福利,孕产妇和儿童健康,处方药物滥用预防和健康保险交换计划。

About the Health Division

The NGA Center for Best Practices Health Division provides governors and their staff with policy analysis

and information, customized technical assistance, best practices, and insight into emerging health care

issues. The Health Division focuses on helping governors develop policy and support implementation in

six core issue areas: health system transformation; Medicaid and private health insurance; workforce;

public health; data and analytics; and behavioral health and the social determinants of health.

Examples of specific projects underway within the division include:

? Connecting States through a Bipartisan Learning Network on Health Reform

? Transforming State Health Systems to Improve Quality and Efficiency Focused on High-Needs,

High-Cost Population

? Negotiating New, Broad Medicaid Authorities for States

? Addressing Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Deaths

? Increasing Access to Care in Rural Areas

? Payment and Delivery System Reform

? Integrating Public Health with the Delivery System

? Improving Systems of Care for Maternal and Child Health

? Leveraging Clinical Data to Achieve Better Health, Better Care, and Lower Costs

The Health Division offers a variety of learning and networking opportunities for states, which promote

peer exchange for governors and their staff. Health Division staff facilitate this through:

? Policy Academies: The Health Division convenes state teams for an intensive, 12-month to***

month process that supports in-depth policy exploration and provides technical assistance on

specific health care challenges (for example, reducing cost and improving the outcomes of highneeds,

high-cost patients and better integrating a state’s public health system with its health

care delivery system). States are selected on the basis of a competitive application and benefit

from peer-to-peer-learning and subject matter expertise.

? Experts Roundtables: The Health Division hosts forums on a variety of relevant health care

topics throughout the year. NGA funds governors’ staff to attend the forums, which are an

opportunity for staff to meet their counterparts from other states, discuss common challenges

and promising solutions, and hear from nationally recognized subject matter experts.

? In-State Retreats: The Health Division convenes in-state retreats one to three days in length to

address state-specific issues such as developing a strategic framework for transforming state

health systems and health care workforce planning. At the retreat, key stakeholders meet with

national and regional experts to identify challenges and opportunities within the state, as well

as develop a strategic plan and develop recommendations to meet a state’s needs. The Health

Division also provides in-depth policy analysis and technical assistance as requested by the

state.

? Learning Labs: The Health Division brings small cohorts of states to learn directly from an

innovator state about a successful, evidence-based intervention. Learning Labs also facilitate

adoption and evaluation of the innovative practices among participating states.

? Governors’ Leadership Calls: The Health Division regularly holds webinars for all states on hot

topics within health care.

Health Division staff have decades of experience working in health policy and operations in state

government, federal government, and the private sector. They serve as a resource for governors’ health

advisors by providing tailored technical assistance, advice from or connections to other states, and

access to outside experts to help a governor’s office achieve its goals.

The Health Division develops and maintains a variety of resources on state health care issues, including

a listserv for governors’ health policy advisors, in-depth research documents, and information in

response to ad hoc requests for information from states. Additional resources include:

? Road Maps: The Health Division provides detailed state road maps that guide state leaders in

implementing cutting edge policy solutions based on expert consultation and evidence-based

best practices.

? Issue Briefs: The Health Division prepares short, focused documents that provide analysis of

state policies, issues, or trends, as well as recommendations for the health care policy

? Expert Consultation: The Health Division provides expert consultation on policy topics within its

six core focus areas, as well as connecting state leaders to national experts.

? In-Depth Analysis: The Health Division prepares detailed analyses to respond to specific

technical assistance requests from states.

Health Division Contacts

htewarson**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

lblock**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

kmurphy**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

swilkniss**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

farabo**[ta]**.org

acoleman**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

kjohnson**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

spandit**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

Chelsea Kelleher

ckelleher**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

Sally Malone

smalone**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

Caroline Picher

cpicher**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

Nicholas Fiore

nfiore**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

Katherine Minnes

kminnes**[ta]**.org

202-624-***

Leslie Donaldson

Administrative Coordinator ldonasldon**[ta]**.org

202-624-***