Health departments pursuing accreditation are required to appoint one person as an Accreditation Coordinator (AC). The AC cannot be the Health Department Director as the responsibilities of these positions are [...]
The Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) Framework outlines the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and defines a minimum set of Foundational Capabilities (FCs) and Foundational Areas (FAs) that [...]
Public health transformation requires reimagining and developing a common vision to ensure the mindsets, capacity, resources, and workforce necessary to provide equitable Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) and 10 [...]
Snapshot To address pressing public health issues, health departments are tasked with identifying new ways of tackling problems – innovating to improve community health. Public health innovation can [...]
Innovation Description The environment in which people live, work, and learn has a profound impact on health, but policies and programs that shape environments generally fall outside the jurisdiction [...]
In partnership with the Alliance for Innovation, PHNCI has launched the Public Health Innovation Playbook, an interactive website designed to help teams and individuals undertake and succeed at their own [...]
PHNCI is excited to release the FPHS Planning Guide: Using Foundational Public Health Services to Transform Public Health, a brand new implementation guide that can be used to guide the [...]
The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) is the nonprofit accrediting body for Tribal, state, local, and territorial public health departments. In November 2015, PHAB launched the Public Health National [...]
One important characteristic of public health innovation is that a developed process, policy, product, or program lends itself to adaptation/adoption, replication, and diffusion. As the public health landscape shifts around us, [...]
Recently, an online planning tool created by the Garrett County Health Department (GCHD), mygarrettcounty.com, is changing the way public health is engaging with the digital community. For one rural Appalachian community, this [...]
