The National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) will hold its NACCHO Annual 2014 event at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, GA from July 8-10, 2014. This meeting is the year’s largest gathering of local health officials, where attendees can examine strategies, share ideas, and plan actions for sustaining or reinventing their organizations in a new era of changing roles and core functions for public health. This year’s conference theme is “The New Era of Public Health: Science, Innovation, and Policy.”

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) will be conducting a sharing session and displaying resources and tools for local health officials in the exhibit hall during the three-day event, to provide valuable guidance in performance management, quality improvement (QI), and workforce development to all attendees.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, from 4-5:30pm in room 204/205 of the Hilton Atlanta, PHF’s Senior Quality Advisor Jack Moran will lead a sharing session with Greg Randolph from the Center for Public Health Quality on “Measuring Return on Investment in a Local Health Department: Lessons learned from the frontlines.” Return on investment (ROI) is an important measure of a QI project’s success, even more so in times of dwindling budgets and resources. In this session, participants will learn and use a robust set of ROI resources that will help them generate credible QI ROI analyses in their health departments.

Beginning on Tuesday, July 8, and continuing through Thursday, July 10, PHF will display resources and tools for local health officials at booth # 77 in the Galleria Exhibit Hall, which is located on the lower level of the Hilton Atlanta. At the PHF exhibit booth, attendees will find:

• Copies of the revised Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies), which was released by the Council on Linkages on June 30
• Updated information for local health officials on the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant, including next steps and planning information for health departments now that the the July 1 deadline for revised work plans has passed
• Instructions on how to access the new Performance Management Toolkit
• The Performance Improvement Learning Series Catalog of technical assistance and training services
• The Key Ingredients for QI Success, a one-page document outlining leading factors for positive outcomes and best practices in QI initiatives
• Guidance on when Kaizen facilitation is appropriate, and resources such as Modular kaizen: Dealing with Disruption
• Many more free materials and handouts on performance management, quality improvement, and workforce development in public health
  

PHF’s President Ron Bialek will also be at the exhibit booth from 11:30am until 1pm ET on Wednesday, July 9, to answer any questions from attendees related to the revised Core Competencies.

Connect with PHF before, during, or after the event by sending us a tweet on Twitter or posting a message to the PHF Facebook page to start or continue a discussion with other public health professionals and organizations.