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Kathi Traugh, MPH, Project Director, Office of Public Health PracticeYale School of Public HealthSusan Nappi, MPH, Executive Director, Office of Public Health PracticeYale School of Public HealthThe prolonged COVID-19 response laid bare a reality the public health community had long understood...

PHF Rolls Out New Workforce Capacity Assessment Technical Assistance

Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Michael Barry

December 12, 2022

Michael A. Barry, Director of PHF Strategic Partnerships and Development, Public Health FoundationThis information was updated April 21, 2023The recent investment of federal resources for strengthening public health infrastructure has many health departments aiming to address workforce...

New to Public Health Residency Program: Building Core Competencies for Public Health Practice

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

October 21, 2022

Hannah Hayes, MPH, RN, Program Manager, New to Public Health Residency Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of NursingSusan Zahner, DrPH, RN, FNAP, FAAN, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of NursingJulianna Manske, MSN, RN, OCN, Program Manager,...

New Federal Funds Can Help Set the Stage for Long-term Public Health Improvement and Support

Posted in: Infrastructure, and Performance Management and Quality Improvementby Ron Bialek

August 20, 2021

Paul Kuehnert, President and CEO, Public Health Accreditation Board Ron Bialek, President and CEO, Public Health FoundationFirst, the good news. Billions of federal government dollars are being invested for enhancing and rebuilding public health infrastructure at the state, Tribal, local, and territorial...

Performance Management Is a Bit Like Making Sourdough (Or Making Sourdough Is a Bit Like Performance Management)

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvementby Sonja Armbruster

July 8, 2020

By Sonja Armbruster, in collaboration with Amanda McCarty and Jack Moran As we’ve all spent more time at home this spring and summer, I’ve found myself in the kitchen often. I’m pretty comfortable there - confident with my cooking and baking skills. But when yeast was absent from the store, I...

Cross-Sector Collaboration for Improving the Health of Communities: You Can’t Do It Alone

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

April 15, 2020

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...

Performance Improvement Competencies to Be Featured at 2020 Open Forum for Quality Improvement and Innovation

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

February 24, 2020

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation The Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health (PI Competencies) will be featured at the Open Forum for Quality Improvement and Innovation (Open Forum) this March in Kansas Cit...

Performance Improvement Professionals Identify High Priority Areas for Workforce Development

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, TRAIN, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

July 18, 2019

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation Nearly 70 performance improvement (PI) professionals working in health departments and other public health organizations across the country came together last month to discuss and identify high priority...

Momentum Building Among Public Health Professionals Around the Performance Improvement Competencies

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

June 10, 2019

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation If you are working in a performance improvement (PI) position within public health, the Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health (PI Competencies) are designed specifically...

QI Tools for Project Management

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

May 8, 2019

Vanessa Lamers, MPH, MESc, is the Assistant Director of Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Public Health FoundationSupporting achievement of your organization’s strategic goals? Managing the development of individuals, teams, and daily work? Establishing or troubleshooting projects or...