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Quality Improvement Is Not Just For Problems: Success and Effect Diagram

Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Jack Moran

June 24, 2011

Quality Improvement tools and techniques have been used extensively for solving problems in organizations. The authors1 of Quality Improvement Is Not Just For Problems: Success and Effect Diagram propose using those same methods to analyze successful processes. Understanding successful process...

"I'm Your Community Guide" Contest: Sharing the Value of Evidence-Based Practice

Posted in: PHF News

April 27, 2011

(Updated: May 6, 2011 to reflect the new "I'm Your Community Guide" Contest deadline of June 10, 2011)In public health, we continuously strive to identify and successfully implement best practices to improve outcomes. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to learn what has been proven to work...

Ilya Plotkin: How does your organization track training?

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

April 6, 2011

In an emergency, one of the most important factors is training and experience. This is particularly true for emergency responders, who must take charge of a situation and turn an emergency into a non-emergency. But how can you tell when your organization, team, or workforce in general is prepared to...

Louise A. Kent: Developing Academic Health Departments – A Practice Perspective

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

March 31, 2011

Louise A. Kent, MBA, ASQ CQIA, Health Planning Administrator, Northern Kentucky Health Department With a growing interest to support the expansion of Academic Health Departments (AHDs) across the nation, it is worth taking time to mention the benefits of being an AHD and then briefly explore a “stepped...

John Gwinn: What Does Your Model Academic Health Department Health Officer Look Like?

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

March 21, 2011

John Gwinn, PhD, MPH, President, Kent City Board of Health, OH Do you ever think about what it takes to build the relationships needed to sustain an Academic Health Department (AHD)? Or perhaps you work in an AHD and see characteristics in your colleagues that make them successful in their jobs? ...

Amy F. Lee: Developing Academic Health Departments - An Academic Perspective

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

March 14, 2011

Amy F. Lee, MD, MPH, MBA, Program Director, Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master of Public Health, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy From an academic perspective, there are many reasons to develop relationships with your local health departments. Public health, medicine,...

Renee Frauendienst: Minnesota’s SCHSAC Blue Prints Work Group and the Tier 3 Core Competencies

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

March 8, 2011

Renee Frauendienst, PHN, Public Health Division Director, Stearns County Human Services Department, MN What makes a strong local public health organization? What factors contribute to its success? How do different “operating environments” influence public health outcomes for the community? These...

Richard Riegelman & Brenda Kirkwood: Training Public Health Professionals: Exploring the Role of Community Colleges

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

February 25, 2011

Richard Riegelman, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology-Biostatistics, Medicine and Health Policy & Founding Dean, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University Brenda Kirkwood, MPH, DrPH candidate in Health Behavior, School of Public Health and Health Services, The Geo...

Kaye Bender: What is the relationship between accreditation and quality improvement in public health?

Posted in: Infrastructure, and Performance Management and Quality Improvement

December 28, 2010

Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN, President and CEO, Public Health Accreditation BoardPHAB is using the definition of quality improvement in public health that was developed by the Accreditation Coalition and published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (January/February, 2010). Specifi...

C. William Keck: Academic Health Departments

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

December 7, 2010

There is a big distinction between people just working together with their own agenda and working together towards a common purpose…When a community of learners transforms into a learning community, the outcome is far greater than the sum of the individual parts. Lori Nishiura, “On Learning” Many...