Governors use their annual state-of-the-state addresses to showcase successes and accomplishments over the past year and to define their policy priorities for the year ahead.

By late February, 41 governors had delivered speeches outlining plans to address a wide variety of health and economic related issues in the coming year, as the immediate health-related emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic has faded.

Explore health-related themes from these speeches in the map below or read our blog.

This chart and blog highlight key health-related themes outlined in the speeches.

Support for this work was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation.