Focus on Accreditation and Innovation addresses current issues related to the Public Health Accreditation Board’s national public health department accreditation program, and the Public Health National Center for Innovations. This series highlights the experiences and perspectives of accredited health departments and explores topics related to the Standards and Measures, research and evaluation findings, and the latest innovations in public health practice.

Read all columns in this series:

• PHAB Performance Pathways: A New Way Forward for Health Department Recognition
• PHAB’s Revised Research Agenda and Logic Model: A Guide for Future Research
• Updates on the Development of PHAB’s Standards and Measures Version 22
• Cross-sector Innovation Initiative: Learnings After a Year of Aligning Across Sectors
• Advocacy and Accreditation: PHAB’s Focus on Advancing Public Health Infrastructure
• How Performance Improvement Can Support COVID Response
• Why Performance Improvement Still Matters In Your Health Department
• Staffing Up: Determining Public Health Workforce Levels Needed to Serve the Nation
• PHAB’s Data Portal: A Platform for Exploring Health Department Performance Data
• Revised 10 Essential Public Health Services Framework Centers on Equity and Propels the Field Into the 21st Century
• COVID-19 Battles Are Local: State, County, and City Health Departments on the Front Lines
• How Has the Field Responded to the 2012 Report on Public Health Financing?
• Help Shape the Future of Public Health: Revisiting the 10 Essential Public Health Services
• Health Department Accreditation, Not Just a One-Time Recognition
• Unleash the Power of Innovation by Incorporating 11 Ingredients Into Your Culture
• PHAB  Launches New Accreditation Program for Vital Records/Health Statistics
• PHNCI Partners with Center for Sharing Public Health Services to Launch the Cross-sector Innovation Initiative
• Health Departments, Health Equity, and Intentional Inclusion
• PHNCI Offering Design Thinking Training to Advance Public Health Innovation
• Creating Multisector Partnerships to Share Data Through the All In Network
• PHAB Begins Work on Updating Accreditation Standards and Measures
• New Case Studies Detail the Work of the 21st Century Learning Community 
• How Can New Public Health Leaders Use the Accreditation Process to Foster Their Leadership Goals?
• Impact of Public Health Department Accreditation Highlighted Through a Variety of New Information: New Features Added to the Evidence Base Related to the Impact of PHAB’s National Accreditation Program on Public Health
• Public Health Accreditation Activity Map
• Too Small to Be Accredited Is a Matter of Perspective
• The Impact of Accreditation to be Highlighted in Upcoming Supplement to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
• Ten Years of Promises Kept: Celebrating the Impact of Public Health Department Accreditation
• The Public Health National Center for Innovations: Strengthening Innovation in Public Health
• Alignment of PHAB Accredited State Health Agency Public Health Workforce Development Plans and the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS)
• Reflections of the Accreditation Committee
• What Does a Board of Health Member or Elected Official Get Out of Working with a Local Health Department on Accreditation?
• The Public Health National Center for Innovations: Fostering Public Health Innovations
• Why National Accreditation Is Important to Tribes
• Evaluation Highlights the Benefits of Accreditation
• Public Health Department Reaccreditation
• Celebrating the First Year of Public Health National Center for Innovations at PHAB
• Accreditation and Multi-sector Collaborations to Promote Health
• Accreditation and Innovation to Be Spotlighted at APHA’s 144th Annual Meeting, Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 in Denver