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Academic Health Department Mentorship Program Now Open

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

June 29, 2015

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation With the launch of the Academic Health Department (AHD) Mentorship Program, the newest initiative of the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice...

Making the Core Competencies Work for Public Health: Celebrating the Anniversary of the 2014 Core Competencies

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

June 26, 2015

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation What a year it has been! One year ago today – June 26, 2014 – the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) adopted a revised...

How Can You Communicate the Benefits of Quality Improvement to Leadership and Staff?

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

June 4, 2015

Russ Rubin is Director of Strategic Communication at the Public Health Foundation. As you are well aware, improving the public’s health is no small feat. Using quality improvement (QI) tools and techniques to help achieve this goal takes time, planning, organization, participation, and often conflict,...

Help Support Efforts to Disseminate the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

June 2, 2015

Janelle Nichols, MPH, Project Assistant, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation The 2014 version of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) was adopted by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health...

PHF, ACHI Exploring Population Health Competencies

Posted in: Workforce Development

April 17, 2015

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation What do public health and health care professionals have in common? Are there skills that are essential for success in both areas? Early in March, the Public Health...

Why are They Stomping in Frederick, MD?

Posted in: Infrastructure, and Performance Management and Quality Improvement

March 25, 2015

Barbara A. Brookmyer, MD, MPH is Health Officer for Frederick County, Maryland. She previously served as Deputy Health Officer on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Somerset County and Dorchester County. While working for the Health Resources and Services Administration, she developed policies to increase...

Immunization Protects All of Us

March 20, 2015

Dr. Amanda Cohn is Deputy Director of the Immunization Services Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. National Infant Immunization Week is April 18 - 25, 2015. Vaccines have greatly reduced infectious diseases th...

Stuck in a Rut? Take a Look Through the Nine Windows

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvementby Sonja Armbruster

March 19, 2015

Sonja Armbruster, MA works for Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research. She is a Quality Improvement Expert for the Public Health Foundation. The definition of insanity—“doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”—is so common it is considered...

Accountability Reexamined – The "New" Accountability

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

March 11, 2015

Harry Lenderman, EdD is a Quality Improvement Expert for the Public Health Foundation. Use of the word “accountability” seems to have evolved from traditional views. Traditionally, we find ways to “hold people accountable.” This article presents an alternative view in the context of quality improvement...

Charting a New Way Forward: Washoe County’s Experience with a Fundamental Review of the Health District

Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Strategic Planning

December 16, 2014

Kevin Dick is the Washoe County District Health Officer in Reno, Nevada. In April 2013, I was appointed interim Health Officer of the Washoe County Health District. The Health District, like many, was experiencing years of declining revenue and deficit spending. Our position was unsustainable and,...