by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS

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Fall is finally upon us, and with it comes the November/December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. In this issue, we have a collection of wonderful articles, with many focusing on tobacco control. Other articles such as this excellent commentary by John Auerbach highlight the pressing need to focus on the social determinants of health with multisectoral public health activities. However, I would like to focus your attention on a few other articles that might pique your interest. The first from Mishra and colleagues reports results from a pilot of electronic case reporting of chlamydia and gonorrhea in Chicago, IL. This study found that electronic case reporting increased provider reporting when compared with paper reporting alone, which has considerable implications for national dissemination. The second article I’d like to highlight is from Wood et al entitled “Enhancing Access to Quality Online Training to Strengthen Public Health Preparedness and Response.” In this interesting paper, the authors document efforts to improve access to online training materials developed by the national network of Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLCs). During the project, the authors evaluated more than 500 resources for quality, ultimately selecting over 400 for inclusion in a searchable, web-based database. These resources are now available (http://perlc.nwcphp.org/) and can be utilized to increase emergency preparedness competencies among the public health workforce. Finally, I’d like to draw your attention to this month’s Getting Practical column from Wang and Lusk. In the column, the authors articulate strategies for engaging local policy makers as partners in public health initiatives, with a focus on city mayors. The authors astutely highlight the need to engage a diversity of stakeholders and search for allies beyond the public health domain. Taken together, these three articles highlight innovative approaches to leveraging existing resources, be they human or technological, to address pressing issues facing public health practitioners and policy makers.

You Might Also Enjoy These Articles in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice:

• Opportunities for Healthy Learning as a Social Determinant of Health
• Associations Between State Tobacco Control Policies and Adolescent ENDS Use
• Tobacco Retailers Near Schools and the Violations of Tobacco Retailing Laws in Thailand
• Media Flight Schedules and Seasonality in Relation to Quitline Call Volume
• Leadership Perceptions of Endgame Strategies for Tobacco Control in California
• An Examination of Multilevel Factors Influencing Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Accountable Care Organization Settings: A Mixed-Methods Study
• Using Continuous Quality Improvement Tools to Promote Tobacco Cessation Among Primary Caregivers in a Home Visiting Program in Alabama
• Is Theory Guiding Our Work? A Scoping Review on the Use of Implementation Theories, Frameworks, and Models to Bring Community Health Workers into Health Care Settings
• Expanded In-School Instructional Time and the Advancement of Health Equity: A Community Guide Systematic Review
• Examining the Effectiveness of Year-Round School Calendars on Improving Educational Attainment Outcomes Within the Context of Advancement of Health Equity: A Community Guide Systematic Review
• After the Bell Rings: Looking Beyond the Classroom to Reduce Inequalities in Educational Achievement and Health Outcomes
• Marching on the Road to Quality: Army Public Health Experience Adopting NACCHO’s Roadmap to a Culture of Quality Framework
• Sustainability of a Tuberculosis Screening Program at an Adult Education Center Through Community-Based Participatory Research
• Regional After-Action Review Among Local Health Department Personnel After Hurricane Matthew in Eastern North Carolina, United States
• Building Informatics-Savvy Health Departments: The Systems Development Life Cycle
• The Business Case for Investing in Place-Based Public Health Initiatives
• NACCHO’s Follow-up Assessment of Disability Inclusion Within Local Health Departments

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Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM, is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and an Associate Professor in the Department of Implementation Science of the Wake Forest School of Medicine at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, USA. Follow him at Twitter and Instagram. [Full Bio]