Michigan Public Health Institute

Business solutions group (bsg) provides expertise to ensure successful implementation of local, state, and national initiatives. We focus on projects and programs designed to improve health outcomes. Our dynamic team melds together practical hands-on experience with specialized skills, training, and education to offer high quality services. We view our clients as partners in creating positive change for the communities we serve.

Center for healthy communities (chc) works collaboratively with partners to improve public health systems and the health of communities. Chc specializes in community-based research and evaluation and provides capacity-building assistance in performance management, quality improvement, and community health assessment, as well as health improvement planning, strategic planning, and workforce development. With rich experience in a wide range of topic areas, a majority of chc's approach is community based and participatory, ensuring that processes and products align with partners' values, needs, and priorities. Chc houses mphi's center for native health & wellness, which serves focused communities as they pursue optimal health and well-being for their people.

Administrative projects grants and contracts office provides collaborative program services for federal, state, and local agencies. The institute is the prime contractor on these projects and issues subcontracts to a variety of agencies whose specialized expertise is unique to the agency. The institute manages collaborative projects with state, federal, and community nonprofit agencies and works in partnership to monitor progress of projects in order to provide high-quality fiscal management.

Center for child and family health (ccfh) collaborates with multidisciplinary stakeholders to prevent infant and child mortality, improve pregnancy outcomes, promote oral health, strengthen support to vulnerable populations, and increase the health and well-being of children and families. The ccfh team works on surveillance and data management systems, policy compliance monitoring, program evaluation, needs assessments, training and technical assistance, and quality improvement projects. They are experts in facilitation, focus groups, and qualitative and quantitative methods to guide program and policy strategies.

Center for precision public health (cpph) strategically engages patients, families, community leaders, clinicians, researchers, public health specialists, and other partners to develop new research, support data-driven initiatives, facilitate community-led program development, and provide technical assistance that advances public health. Cpph was formed via the consolidation of the center for data management and translational research and the center for strategic health partnerships.

Center for national prevention initiatives (cnpi) provides resources to improve and sustain local, state, and national efforts to reduce infant and child mortality by delivering data support, training, and technical assistance to fatality review programs throughout the u.s. Cnpi houses the health resources and services administration (hrsa)-funded national center for fatality review and prevention, the data coordinating center for the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), and the national institutes of health's (nih) sudden unexpected infant death case registry and sudden death in the young case registry. Cnpi also receives funding from the federal emergency management agency (fema) to implement a fire education and safety program in high-risk communities across the u.s. Cnpi's collaborators include national, tribal, state, and local partners on a wide range of strategies that strengthen existing maternal child health and injury programs. The goal of all cnpi programs is to learn from child deaths to prevent future deaths and ultimately reduce risks to children and families.

Education and communication services (ecs) works with multiple partners both in person and virtually to expand the knowledge and capacity to promote public health. Ecs offers event management for learning events, ranging from one-day workshops to multiday conferences; creates communication strategies and products while helping brand overall messages; facilitates processes to support productive brainstorming, strategic planning, and process improvement; and builds custom online training courses and multimedia presentations with a focus on outcomes-based education and real-world application. In addition, ecs manages the interactive learning center (ilc) at mphi, where a number of these planning and educational events occur, and offers continuing education services for many events throughout the year. These listed services support mphi's external work and internal capacity building.

Center for technology solutions (cts) strives to create innovative and strategic technology solutions to address public health challenges. Our experienced team of developers and technical staff work together with our partners to design, develop, test, host, and support complex and secure websites and applications. Our goal is to connect people to data that supports public health decision making and increases efficiency. We have been a trusted health data partner since 2004 and continue to innovate and evolve to support the changing needs of our clients and the changing face of technology.

Center for health equity practice (chep) helps those who work in public health and related fields understand community and individual health factors in order to advance health for all. Chep collaborates with multi-sector partners to implement programs, conduct research and evaluation, and support systems change strategies - including workshops, technical assistance, training, facilitation, coaching, and consultations. Projects within the center for health equity practice speak directly to issues of access, regional needs, poverty, inequality, and the social systems that contribute to them. The center hosts detroit health innovations (d-hi). D-hi is dedicated to collaborating with community partners to promote health initiatives and implement prevention programs in the detroit metropolitan area.

Center for racial and social justice (crsj) includes a portfolio of work designed to strategically position mphi to address various health needs. Crsj focuses on the impacts of governmental structures and systems that are harmful to public health. Crsj works to understand how individual, family, and community health is influenced by exposure to the child welfare, juvenile justice, criminal justice, and other institutionalized systems. Crsj engages in work that looks at how policies contribute to differences in social service experiences among those served. Staff are engaged in projects that center public health in the child protection, juvenile justice, criminal justice, and educational systems. Our team works to develop strategies for prevention, intervention, reduction of justice involvement, and reentry and wellbeing.

Cancer control services provides evaluation expertise to the state of michigan's cancer control programs. It offers technical assistance in such areas as cancer prevention, patient navigation, referral, tracking and follow up; strategic planning, partnership, and event coordination; administration and fiduciary responsibilities; quality assurance and improvement in cancer-related services; and database management. Expertise is also provided in statistics, financial analysis, and hiring support.

Center for social change (csc) is a diverse team with decades of experience in public health, public policy, and healthcare systems quality and performance. Our team has direct experience implementing programs in the medicaid agency, supporting major initiatives in physical/behavioral health integration, policy analysis, housing, public health, consumer engagement, health information technology and exchange, and federal funding requests through the advanced planning document (apd) process. Csc staff support medicaid in the movement toward health care access for all by leading efforts to report on fair health outcomes and differences within targeted populations served (children with special health care needs, medicaid/medicare duals). Csc develops policy, contracts, and program recommendations to drive improvement in a sustainable way. Our team has expertise in policy review and analysis, project management; technology of participation (top) facilitation; and qualitative data collection methods, including interviews, surveys, focus groups, and quantitative data analytics, such as claims analysis and quality measurement/performance assessment. The csc led the mphi effort to become a qualified entity (qe) through the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms), one of only two entities in michigan to receive that designation.

Center for culturally responsive engagement (ccre) ensures the people who are most impacted are at the center of conversations that seek to find solutions to problems affecting them. Ccre engages with its clients using culturally responsive approaches for evaluation, learning, research, training, facilitation, and strategic planning. Its services are developed around culturally defined values, knowledge, and beliefs of the population served and the context in which they occur. Through its work, ccre offers tenets to help its partners adopt engagement processes that are culturally responsive for all. Its partners are philanthropic, governmental, nonprofit, and academic institutions, as well as historically marginalized groups driving social processes where their voices have previously been silenced.