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PHF E-News: News for Public Health
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Ask the Academic Health Department Expert:
How do we share resources without sharing money?
Collaboration between partners in academic health department (AHD) partnerships often involves the sharing of resources, but how can this be accomplished when organizations are operating with limited funding? Read this inaugural column of the Ask the AHD Expert series to explore the question of how resources can be shared in the absence of sharing funding. |
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Spotlight on Public Health Improvement:
Process Bottleneck Analysis
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Maryland Joins the TRAIN Learning Network
PHF is excited to announce the newest member of our affiliate community: TRAIN-Maryland. Maryland is the 27th state on TRAIN and the 30th affiliate overall.
Managed by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, TRAIN-Maryland will provide access to trainings to help improve competence and performance of public health workers throughout the state.
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Eye on PI: Performance Improvement Professionals Share Ideas for Refining Competencies
As part of the effort to refine a set of draft Competencies for Performance Improvement (PI) Professionals in Public Health, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) has been collecting input about PI competencies from the public health community. This input has been received from PI professionals, as well as public health professionals with knowledge and experience in developing discipline-specific public health competencies. The PI Competencies are but one example of discipline-specific competency sets inspired by the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. What have we been hearing so far? Can you still provide feedback? Find out how you can get involved with refining of the PI Competencies in the PHF Pulse blog. |
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Webinar: Moving from Assessment to Action in Community Health Improvement
May 1, 2017 from 3-4pm EDT
Join PHF and the Association for Community Health Improvement for a webinar focused on taking action in support of community health improvement. Featuring WellSpan Health (York, PA) and INTEGRIS Health (Oklahoma City, OK), two participants in the Using The Community Guide for Community Health Improvement pilot initiative, this webinar will offer an overview of the initiative to date and how each community coalition is addressing behavioral health needs. Register to attend. |
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TRAIN Launches New Calendar Feature
As of April 12, the TRAIN website at www.train.org now includes a calendar for all users to easily find events and trainings by date. As a user of TRAIN, you can now see your scheduled upcoming live learning events or browse and filter live events for the groups that you have chosen to participate in on your profile. Some of the new features of the calendar include: - Keyword search for all course titles, descriptions, and schedules
- Ability to filter by your affiliate’s events or events that you have registered for
- Ability to toggle view between day, week, and month
- Easily recognized color coding for specific course types within the calendar
Log in to TRAIN today and click on the calendar tab to check out the new calendar feature. On the calendar page, click the question mark icon "?" to see the key of event color codes. |
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Virtual Town Hall Meeting: Exploring Competencies for the Emerging Field of Legal Epidemiology
May 11, 2017 from 2-3:30pm EDT
Curious about how laws can play a role in the cause, distribution, and prevention of disease and injury? Engaged in projects that are focused at the intersection of law and epidemiology? Join the Public Health Foundation (PHF) on Thursday, May 11, 2017 from 2-3:30pm EDT for a virtual town hall meeting to share your feedback and help to shape a draft competency model being developed to support public health practitioners, lawyers, and policy experts working in this area. The meeting will also include a brief overview of the emerging field of legal epidemiology. Learn more about this event and register today. |
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2017 Public Health Improvement Training June 13-14, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Building on more than a decade of collaborative work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and national public health partner organizations, the 2017 Public Health Improvement Training (PHIT) offers networking opportunities alongside interactive learning and skill-building sessions, with topics including quality improvement, performance management, national voluntary accreditation, health assessment, and improvement planning. PHF will be leading two action-themed workshops at PHIT 2017. Learn more about these sessions and register to attend the event. |
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Using the A3 Problem Solving Report at Oklahoma City-County Health Department
Kathie Dyer, Quality Improvement Council Consultant at the Oklahoma City-County (OK) Health Department (OCCHD), says that efficiency is a prime objective of day-to-day operations at the department. She is always on the lookout for new tools and ideas that can make their processes run more efficiently, but like most health departments, OCCHD is tasked with doing more with less. See how Kathie and her team at OCCHD adapted the A3 Problem Solving Report, one of PHF's latest quality improvement tools, in her PHF Pulse blog post. |
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phPIN Online Portal:
New Website Community Launched
The Public Health Performance Improvement Network (phPIN) offers a forum for performance improvement practitioners in public health to access resources, network, and share practices on a variety of topics.
phPIN was recently upgraded to a website community where individuals can collaborate and grow by sharing emerging practices and information with their professional peers.
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Mark Your Calendar: Upcoming Events |
Academic Health Department Learning Community Meeting - May 2017
May 9, 2017 from 2-3pm EDT
Virtual Town Hall Meeting: Exploring Competencies for the Emerging Field of Legal Epidemiology
May 11, 2017 from 2-3:30pm EDT
2017 Practical Playbook National Meeting
May 31-June 2, 2017 in Washington, DC
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