The Northeast Public Health Collaborative is a coalition created by the governors of several northeast states (including New York, [1] [2] Delaware, [3] Maine, [4] Maryland, [5] New Jersey, [6] Connecticut, [7] Massachusetts, [8] Rhode Island, [9] Pennsylvania, [10] and Vermont [11] ) to coordinate public health guidelines separate from the CDC, similar to the West Coast Health Alliance. [12] Maryland would go on to join the coalition in September 2025. [5]
The voluntary collaboration aims "to share expertise, improve coordination, enhance capacity, strengthen regional readiness, and promote and protect evidence-based public health" and "ensure trust in public health, respond to public health threats, advance community health and strengthen confidence in ... science-based medicine". [13]