The Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI), a division of PHAB, serves as the national headquarters for empowering health departments to drive change and improve health. PHNCI’s efforts focus on public health innovation and transformation, with learnings, resources, and opportunities that support accreditation.

Public health innovation refers to the creation and implementation of a novel process, policy, product, program, or system leading to improvements that impact health and equity. Tenets of innovation include:

  • an ongoing, systematic process that generates changes;
  • collaboration with diverse team members and partners and co-production with people with lived experience who will be affected by the results of the innovation;
  • and an open process lending itself to adaptation or replication.

Initiatives of PHNCI

21st Century Learning Community

21C is a group of states focused on intentional state-wide public health system transformation; these states are driving transformation in their state and generating a knowledgebase for the field

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Foundational Public Health Services

A framework that outlines the unique responsibilities of governmental public health. It can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health; identify capacity and resource gaps; and determine the cost for assuring foundational activities.

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10 Essential Public Health Services

The 10 EPHS is a framework which serves as a roadmap of goals for carrying out the mission of public health in communities around the nation

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Data Modernization

PHNCI supports ways to advance data modernization through the RWJF Commission’s Recommendations for Transformed Public Health Systems.

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Staffing Up: Determining Public Health Workforce Levels Needed to Serve the Nation

A national estimate of FTEs needed to perform the FPHS. The initiative is developing a public health workforce calculator that will allow health departments to determine the number and type of staff to provide sufficient levels of public health services

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