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Help Us Celebrate Our 2023 NNPHI Annual Conference Award Recipients!
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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The NNPHI Awards Program recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations that have made exemplary contributions to improving the public’s health and embody NNPHI’s mission and values. NNPHI’s mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes to promote multi-sector initiatives resulting in measurable improvements of public health structures, systems, and outcomes. […]
PH WINS for All
- By: Lisa Tobe, MPH, MFA and Lauren Milliken, MSW, MPH
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Including the Rural Public Health Workforce Rural health departments remain understudied and underfunded — despite their importance in protecting the community’s health. Rural populations face increasing disparities in many health-related outcomes compared to urban communities. For instance, early COVID-19 pandemic infection rates rose more quickly in many rural communities and decreased more slowly after surges. […]
In a Nutshell: Here’s Why NNPHI’s Annual Conference Is Just Right For You
- By: Maurice Starks, Shelina Davis and Dandora Sillah
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As spring 2023 begins, the rise of convenings is well underway and highly anticipated. From virtual webinars, conferences, and other face-to-face opportunities, there are a plethora of new ways for our members, partners, and public health colleagues to engage and connect. Last year, NNPHI made its well overdue return to connecting in-person with not only our […]
Belonging In The Workplace
- By: National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training
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On average, Americans spend about a third of their lives at work. For some, that means one-third of your day and life you feel out of place and try to keep up a facade of who you think you should be. A recent Better Up study found that when employees feel a sense of belonging, […]
Training and Supporting Healthcare Leadership During the COVID Pandemic
- By: Christina Clayton, LICSW, SUDP, Kira Mauseth, Ph.D., Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH and Jonathan Olson, Ph.D.
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought extraordinary new challenges to all levels of the health workforce. For healthcare leaders, challenges related to staffing shortages, budget cuts, masking and vaccine mandates, and “the great resignation” from public health has significantly increased daily stress. Compounding these issues, conceptual myths that those in leadership positions have roles that protect them […]
What You Value is What You Budget
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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The North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH) recently finished a pilot course strengthening the connection between local health department finance and program staff through an interactive strategic skills training known as Strategic Scholars. The program follows a national model developed and implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National […]
Leading the Way by Building a Culture of Accessibility in Public Health Organizations
- By: Rebecca Wells, PhD, MSW, MPH and Lauren Milliken, MSW, MPH
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Kiara was only four months into her new role as the Region 2 Department of Health emergency preparedness coordinator. She was attending a large region-wide in-person meeting—the first in-person gathering in over two years. Driving to the meeting, she thought how nervous she would be around so many colleagues she didn’t know yet. The meeting […]
Growing and Strengthening the Public Health workforce in Indian Country through a Leadership Program
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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The Indigenous Public Health Leaders (IPHL) program recently launched by the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) is truly the first of its kind. The program, which is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services, as part of the Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-OT18-1802: […]
NNPHI Tribal Programs
- By: Maurice Starks
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NNPHI’s mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes to promote multi-sector activities resulting in measurable improvements of public health structures, systems, and outcomes. To achieve better health and racial equity in the US, our public health system must develop strong and authentic partnerships with tribal and urban Indian […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The National Network of Public Health Institutes Welcomes Adam Lustig as New Bridging Portfolio Director
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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The National Network of Public Health Institutes Welcomes Adam Lustig as New Bridging Portfolio Director Lustig brings over a decade of public health policy development and program leadership to the role. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Katy Sandusky, National Network of Public Health Institutes, ksandusky@nnphi.org | Maurice Starks, National Network of Public Health Institutes, mstarks@nnphi.org […]
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