Build the Capacity of Your Public Health Agency Today Using Tools Developed Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Public health agencies are often forced to operate in a crisis mode, filled with disruptions on a regular basis from public health threats (e.g., H1N1 outbreak) and diminishing budgets to shifting priorities.

Learn about resources that you can use to enhance the capacity of your public health agency to manage and improve performance. 

Have you heard?  On June 16, the first ever National Prevention Strategy, called for under the Affordable Care Act, was created to help move the nation from a focus on sickness and disease to one based on prevention and wellness. By focusing on prevention, the National Prevention Strategy will help your community stay healthy and fit and improve our nation's prosperity.

PHF can help you get started in your efforts to support this strategy with resources, training, and technical assistance.

Join Practitioners and Academics to Improve Community Health

Academic Health Departments (AHDs) are bringing together the public health practice and academic communities to help improve public health education, practice, and research - essential to the success of health reform.

Find out how you can become involved in a growing Academic Health Department Learning Community of individuals who are developing, maintaining, and expanding AHDs in their jurisdictions.

Public health organizations across the nation are using the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals developed by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice to meet their workforce development needs.

Discover how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used the Core Competencies to determine the competencies for health department Performance Improvement Managers.