PHAB serves as a national leader in using infrastructure and innovation to improve health and equity by:

  • Driving public health transformation through collaboration, thought leadership, and systems-based learning.

  • Providing a learning space for health departments’ innovations.

  • Fostering innovations in health departments and public health system by collecting lessons and success stories from grantee programs and learning communities.

  • Developing and sharing resources, tools, education, and expertise to guide health departments in developing or replicating innovations in their community.

  • Connecting innovators within public health and the wider health ecosystem.

  • Monitoring, disseminating, and building the science of public health innovation.

Our Work

Public Health Frameworks

The Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) and the 10 Essential Public Health Services (10 EPHS) are two frameworks used to guide public health.

The 21st Century Learning Community

The 21st Century Learning Community (21C) is a group of states focused on intentional state-wide public health system transformation using the FPHS;

The FPHS Capacity & Cost Assessment

Supports health departments and systems to assess current capacity and spending on FPHS and determine areas of investment.

Workforce

The public health workforce needs resources and support. These tools support health departments with workforce planning efforts.

Data Modernization

To best serve communities, health departments need access to modern, real-time, hyperlocal data and tools.

Service & Resource Sharing

Helps public health departments and systems collaborate and share across boundaries to improve efficiency, capacity, and effectiveness.

Cross Sector

Identify and support public health, healthcare, and social services organizations striving to build stronger, sustainable connections to better meet the goals and needs of the people they serve.

Webinars

PHAB hosts webinars around a variety of topics, including public health infrastructure and transformation.

Relationship between Accreditation, Innovation, and Transformation.

The FPHS framework outlines the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and defines the minimum set of services that must be available in every community. Several states are working to transform their governmental public health system using this framework and are participating in the 21C initiative to share their learnings and learn from others. As Foundational Capabilities are being addressed at the state level, PHAB has also identified and infused Foundational Capabilities in its Standards and Measures and Pathways, a recognition program to support local health departments on their performance improvement journey.

There is an opportunity to transform public health at all levels. PHAB’s national accreditation program and its expertise in public health innovation and infrastructure offer the chance to strengthen health departments and advance public health practice to create conditions for all communities to thrive.

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