A new study in JPHMP explains how New York State’s wastewater surveillance network was built to empower local health departments to respond to emerging public health threats.
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This study contextualized survey response rates from a community health center-based study focused on multiple types of discrimination and health, conducted during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with results underscoring the need to interpret lower-than-expected response rates in relation to the impact of the pandemic and the broader sociopolitical context.
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We’re looking for Students Who Rocked Public Health in 2023. Send us your nominations by Dec. 1, 2023.
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Decision making by state health officials in a public health emergency is a complex and critical process involving many variables.
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Exciting new initiatives are now underway to rebuild advocacy in public health at this vulnerable moment of eroding trust and decreased political skill sets.
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Editor-in-chief Lloyd F. Novick highlights new articles in the Nov/Dec 2023 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
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Community health assessments (CHAs)/community health needs assessments (CHNAs) are an integral part of public health practice and are conducted regularly on behalf of communities across the US. Yet, while there are many examples of joint CHAs/CHNAs between Nonprofit Hospitals (NPHs) and Local Health Departments (LHDs)/State Health Agencies (SHAs) across the country, too many assessments are conducted with minimal involvement from their organizational counterparts, particularly among NPHs conducting CHNAs. Hank Stabler explains why NPHs are not involving LHDs/SHAs in their CHNAs.
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Big Cities Health Coalition polled audiences from 35 of their member big cities to better understand how individuals who are skeptical of public health interventions could be moved to better support the important role governmental public health departments and leaders play in their communities. This post outlines the top messaging strategies their research supports.
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Sarah Shaw, a senior informatics analyst for PHII, explains how “DMI Stories from the Field,” a collection of lessons learned from states and jurisdictions along different phases of their modernization journeys, illustrate what successful data modernization looks like in practice.
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The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) has developed a variety of tools to support health departments and governmental public health systems in intentionally transforming and modernizing to create equitable systems and communities.
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