As part of its work with the Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition, NNPHI will provide selected nonprofit organizations with awards of up to $7,500 to conduct a state meeting in 2012 focusing on opportunities for improving health through the intersection between agriculture and health.  This award will be coupled with limited technical assistance and participation in a learning community of other organizations hosting similar meetings.

Two-page applications are due by February 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM ET. 

For more information, visit NNPHI's Funding Opportunities page.

Open Event

1:00-2:00 PM ET
Open Event

Presented by the Network for Public Health Law, the Public Health Law Webinar Series is a free, open monthly series focused on providing the public health community with practical knowledge on emerging topics.  The series' next webinar, Learning about Health Impact Assessments, is scheduled for Thursday, February 16.

The webinar will provide a basic overview of how Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) give decision-makers the information they need to advance smarter policies to help build safe, healthy, thriving communities; examine the development of an innovative HIA tool; and explore the legal authority authorizing, supporting, or prohibiting HIAs.

Learn more and register.

2:00-3:00 PM ET
Open Event

The National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPSP) is a national partnership initiative that has developed National Public Health Performance Standards for state and local public health systems and public health governing bodies to assess and improve public health systems.

The NPHPSP webinar series features live bi-monthly webinars around public health accreditation, quality improvement (QI), and performance management.  The webinar topic for Tuesday, February 21 is Building a Culture of QI in Your Health Department: A Roadmap to Quality.

These monthly webinars are free and open to all. Click to learn more about this monthly webinar series and view archived editions.  To sign up for future webinars, click below or email Program Coordinator Liljana Johnson (). 

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5:00 PM CT
Open Event

4:00-5:30 PM ET, with Reception Immediately Following
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Open Event

Join the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) and Bowling Green State University's College of Health and Human Services for the 13th Annual Ned E. Baker Lecture in Public Health.  Andy Goodman, Director of The Goodman Center in Los Angeles, will be giving a lecture entitled "Telling the Public Health Story - How to Affect Policy, Engage Elected Officials and Inspire Citizens."  

The lecture and reception, immediately following, are free and open to the public. 

In addition to the live audience, this lecture will be webcast to off-site viewers. 

To learn more, click here or email Jennifer Wagner (indicate "Baker Lecture" in the subject line) at  . Lecture viewers may email questions for the speaker to .

Washington, D.C. 
Open Event

Register Here

The Inaugural National HIA Meeting registration is now open.

A call for abstracts and scholarship applications are also available. Deadline for submission is January 18, 2012. 

Atlanta, GA
Open Event

The National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) is a national collaboration that has developed National Public Health Performance Standards for state and local public health systems and public health governing bodies to assess and improve public health systems. 

Join  the NPHPSP May 8-9, 2012 in Atlanta for its annual spring training workshop, Improving Public Health: Exploring Agency, Systems, & Community Health Improvement Training.  The training is co-coordinated by NNPHI and sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its NPHPSP and accreditation partners.    

This year's training offers opportunities to learn about public health agency accreditation, systems performance standards, quality improvement, health assessment and improvement planning, and how all of these support an overall public health improvement strategy.  Special attention will be given to preparing for Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation and implementing the newly re-engineered NPHPSP tools.

Who should attend?

• Representatives from state, local, or tribal health departments and board of health members interested in learning about tools to improve public health performance

• Performance Improvement Managers within state, tribal and local health departments

• Current or potential accreditation coordinators, NPHPSP assessment or Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) coordinators/facilitators

• Representatives from state associations, public health institutes, or others who work with state, local, or tribal health departments to improve agency and systems performance

• A limited number of registrations will be available for representatives of national organizations, academic institutions, and other entities
  

Benefits of Attending

• Gain insight into the relationships between various public health improvement initiatives and tools, including the NPHPSP, accreditation, and state/community health improvement planning frameworks such Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP).

• Learn how to conduct the NPHPSP state, local, and governance assessment process and take steps to prepare for accreditation, including using results for strategic planning and state/community health improvement.

• Participate in small workshops that will offer attendees a hands-on opportunity to learn and practice the skills of performance and quality improvement.

• Hear and share valuable tips at this premier networking event for NPHPSP users and those interested in public health agency and system improvement.

For more information, please contact Lil Johnson at .