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Ron Bialek and John W. Moran “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” ― Helen Keller1Improving a community’s health requires that the community’s public health department, healthcare institutions, and other community stakeholders providing health and health-related services break o...

Opioid Response: A Recipe for Local, Impactful Results

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

October 2, 2018

Ron Bialek, MPP, President, Public Health Foundation. First, the good news. Substantial federal, state, and local resources are being allocated for planning and implementing responses to the opioid crisis. For example, there are new and redirected federal funds available through the Centers for...

How South Dakota Reduced CRE through a Multi-Disciplinary Approach

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

December 15, 2016

Angela M. Jackley, RN, is the Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program Coordinator for the South Dakota Department of Health. Her responsibilities include oversight and coordination of efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infections, multi-drug resistant outbreaks,...

Mobilizing Community Partners to Action: How a Small Vector Control Program Tackled Zika

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

October 11, 2016

Cheryl Clay is the Public Health Senior Environmentalist for the Madison County Health Department, where her core responsibility is managing the vector control program for the City of Huntsville. Her vector control program emphasizes public education and source reduction as the most effective means...

Improving Access to Physical Activity: Taking on Health Disparities

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

July 22, 2016

Jessica Montana, MPH, CHES is the REACH Program Coordinator at the Cabarrus Health Alliance in Kannapolis, NC. In Cabarrus County, NC, our public health and other community leaders understand that health disparities – often along racial and ethnic lines – are a genuine and formidable barrier to...

Using The Community Guide for Community Health Improvement Initiative Kicks Off

Posted in: Community Developmentby Kathleen Amos

April 14, 2016

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide), a free resource for evidence-based recommendations and findings from the Community Preventive Services Task Force, can play a valuable role...