The Mississippi Public Health Institute (MSPHI) embrace and employ new ways to do public health, moving beyond county-based clinics or medical measures to put population health practices firmly into communities. MSPHI helps local-area organizations identify their needs and determine modern answers to satisfying solutions. The Institute’s multi-disciplinary team of technical experts, management consultants, and communication and outreach strategists tackle long-standing problems related to public and mental health.
MSPHI is leading initiatives to address gaps in maternal care, improve data usage for better service delivery, and implement knowledge and recommendations into practice in Mississippi, including group prenatal care models, maternal warning signs communications and screenings for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Visionaries created MSPHI to support and promote public health and to help advance public health in Mississippi, establishing the organization as leaders in the state’s public health evolution. We focus on the pressing and challenging public and behavioral health care issues that our communities face. Organic growth since our inception has set the stage for MSPHI to help frame an evolved, modern approach to advance population health in Mississippi. We envision a system that includes:
In the new model for public health practice, communities need public health leaders who can see the big picture – the social determinants of health and the huge disparities by race/ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation, interpersonal violence and trauma, income, and geography. These leaders will be equipped to work with all relevant partners to drive public health initiatives and outcomes.
Engaging community stakeholders – both public and private sectors – is instrumental in developing positive partnerships that lead to positive actions and improved health outcomes. Nationally accredited workforce of forward-thinking change makers Research shows that a well-trained, accredited workforce results in quality improvement and enhanced capacity, which is why we work with state and national partners to provide accessible and relevant training for public health professionals throughout the state.
When public and private sectors work together, communities can access and act on real-time data that can be shared, linked, and synthesized to inform action. With this, communities can measure effects on health care and public health, especially the social determinants of health, environmental outcomes, and health disparities.
The Public Health 3.0 model suggests “blending and braiding of funds from multiple sources should be encouraged and allowed.” Leveraging every available dollar, including public, private, and philanthropic funding, benefits both partners and community.
