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In public health, diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) are key principles in achieving equitable health outcomes. Recognizing the pivotal role of DEIJ in advancing health, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) has designated it as one of the organization’s four strategic pillars. PHF has...

Public Health Action Needed on Alzheimer's Disease

Posted in: Workforce Development

September 19, 2022

Natalia Babenko, Public Health Foundation Internand MPH Candidate at the University of South FloridaThe COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected mortality from Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Over the first year of the pandemic, the U.S. faced a 15% increase in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease...

CDC Announces Landmark Investment in Public Health Capacity: PHF is Ready to Help

by Michael Barry

June 23, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is making available nearly $4 billion to help health departments address critical public health infrastructure needs. The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), Strengthening U.S. Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems,...

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...

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...

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...