Program areas at NNPHI
Health & racial equity - nnphi has established two National communities of practice focused on Health and racial equity: one is focused on internal policies and best practices our members can implement and pursue increased equity within their organizations; the second is compiling strategies to address external drivers of racial ineqities in the response and long-term recovery from covid-19. This emerging portfolio will be home to additional programs in the future.
Bridging sectors to create healthnnphi recognizes the key to population Health improvement lies in addressing the conditions that determine Health and well-being on a broad scale. Accomplishing this means moving beyond just bridging silos between traditional Public Health partners, to engaging a broader set of partners including schools, Public safety, housing, transportation, the food industry, and others. Numerous projects focused on multi-sector collaboration are housed in this portfolio.
Network engagement nnphi currently engages over 40 member Public Health Institutes. This portfolio is responsible for nnphi's membership application process, membership benefits including technical assistance to members, updating nnphi's Network engagement directory, and leading content development for member conferences. The portfolio also provides capacity building assistance to emerging Institutes (fee for service or grant-supported) and is home to additional administrative partner services.
Climate, crisis, and preparednessrecognizing the increasing impacts of climate change & disasters on human Health, nnphi established this portfolio to support initiatives that strengthen community preparedness and resilience throughout the united states. The portfolio is home to the hurricane response hubs, disaster mortality surveillance, project firstline, and other projects.
Evidence to actionnnphi is committed to producing, translating, and sharing research and evaluation findings with implications for improvements in policies, practices and programs - and ultimately - population Health. This portfolio has extensive experience implementing program monitoring and evaluation systems for a wide variety of Public Health programs, across a variety of Public Health topics at the local, state, and National levels. The evidence to action team has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Communications and conveningnnphi conducts 10+ events per year designed for professionals and partner organizations dedicated to improving population Health. This portfolio offers a full suite of in-house convening services, from meeting content development to logistics planning (whether in-person or virtual). It is also home to nnphi's communications team, responsible for several websites, email newsletters, social media and numerous reports/publications per year.
Other
Nccpht - this portfolio builds on nnphi's role as the National coordinating center for Public Health training (nccpht), a growing Network of university-based regional Public Health workforce in the communities across the united states, puerto rico, us virgin islands, and us territories. Nccpht implements the Public Health learning opportunities. Nccpht also implements a quality review process, the quality standards for training design an delivery. This portfolio includes additional programs related to building capacity of the Public Health workforce nationally.