Accreditation and Quality Improvement
September 15, 2010 | Commentary
Multi-State Learning Collaborative holds last national meeting before the launch of public health accreditation in 2011.
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Achieving a Culture of Quality Improvement
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The authors of this editorial take a look at how our public health system could work in the future.
A Community-Level Effort to Motivate Physician Participation in the National Committee for Quality Assurance Diabetes Physician Recognition Program
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This case study involved a regional QI initiative to improve delivery of care to people with diabetes. Pay for participation may be a viable strategy to promote quality improvement in primary care practices.
A Director of Public Health Informatics Helps New York State Train Local Health Departments on Common Ground Methods
October 30, 2012 | Story
Geraldine Johnson, MS, used Common Ground business-process analysis tools to provide quality improvement training to local, regional, and state health department staff in New York.
Advancing Accreditation and Quality Improvement in Public Health Agencies
May 20, 2008 | News Release
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awards third round of grants to improve the quality of public health.
Advancing the Science of Delivery
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
For almost a decade, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has supported major efforts in enhancing the field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) as part of their larger efforts toward advancing the science and practice of pub ...
A Framework to Measure the Value of Public Health Services
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents a framework developed from a series of qualitative interviews on how to measure the value of public health services. Assessing the value of different public health services may have implications for how to best solicit and utilize funding, but little is known about how to best measure value.
Agency Discretion and Public Health Service Delivery
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study looked at how changes in law shape the public health system.
A Look Ahead at ASTHO: Q&A with Paul Jarris
September 11, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO) will be meeting in Austin, Texas, this week for their annual conference. NewPublicHealth spoke with ASTHO’s executive director, Paul Jarris, MD, about the key themes of this year’s mee ...
Alum of RWJF Scholars Programs Nominated Commissioner of NY Department of Health
December 21, 2010 | Human Capital Blog Post
Congratulations to Nirav Shah, M.D., M.P.H., who has been nominated by Governor-Elect Andrew Cuomo to serve as the Commissioner of the New York Department of Health. Shah is an alumnus of the RWJF Physician Faculty Scholars program (2007-2010) and t ...