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Cassandra Grantham, MADirector, Child Health and Raising Readers, Community Health ImprovementMaineHealthPortland, MENational Infant Immunization Week (NIIW), in partnership with health departments, national immunization partners, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), takes place ...

Tools, Resources, and Training to Fight Flu

Posted in: Conferences and Events, PHF News, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

February 29, 2016

Public Health Foundation's Hot off the Press On February 24, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported preliminary overall influenza vaccine effectiveness of 59% this season. Although flu activity has been lower so far this season than the previous 3 seasons, act...

Population Health Driver Diagram Used by Columbia School of Nursing

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF News, and Workforce Development

February 5, 2016

Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN the Dean and Professor at Columbia University School of Nursing and the Senior Vice President of Columbia University Medical Center introduced the Population Health Driver Diagram to the next generation of nurse practitioners as a way to integrate clinical and primary...

Harnessing the Power of QI: A New Performance Management Perspective

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and PHF News

December 11, 2015

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) is sharing a new quality improvement resource, Utilizing Performance Management to Harness the Power of Quality Improvement in Public Health. This white paper, authored by PHF Performance Improvement Expert Les Beitsch, Valerie Yeager, and PHF Senior Quality Advisor...

An Astronaut Did It in Space: It's Time for You to Do It Here

Posted in: PHF News, and TRAIN

November 11, 2015

It is influenza (flu) season, the time of the year when primary care physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and others are urging those six months and older to get a flu shot. Astronaut Scott Kelly, who is midway through a full year away from the planet, gave himself a flu shot while orbiting 250 miles ove...

TRAIN Reaches Million Learner Milestone

Posted in: PHF News, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

October 29, 2015

As of Thursday October 29, 2015, TRAIN, the nation’s premier learning network for professionals who protect the public’s health, now reaches one million learners across the country and around the world. The TRAIN learning network was launched in 2003 at the request of state agencies to address a p...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (October 2015)

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Council on Linkages, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF News, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

October 6, 2015

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Frederick County, MD Becomes TRAIN's First Local Health Department Affiliate Improving Community Health: How Organizations and Communities are Using Population Health Driver Diagrams Hear from Public Health Workfor...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (June 2015)

Posted in: Council on Linkages, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF News, Strategic Planning, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

June 25, 2015

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Academic Health Department Mentorship Program Set to Launch Foundations of Public Health Preparedness Training Plan Launches PHF Leads Performance Improvement Training Workshops at PHIT 2015 TRAIN Affiliates and Par...

Academic Health Department Mentorship Program Set to Launch

Posted in: Council on Linkages, PHF News, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

June 19, 2015

As the summer kicks off, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) is preparing to launch its newest activity – an Academic Health Department (AHD) Mentorship Program – later this month. Developed within the existing AHD Learning Community, the AHD Mentorship...

Tackling Risks Associated with Diabetes Using a Population Health Driver Diagram

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and PHF News

April 30, 2015

The Public Health Foundation (PHF), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is developing and using a population health driver diagram framework to address prevention, control, treatment, and reduction of severe complications associated with diabetes. PHF has been testing an innovative...