Public Health Foundation

Phf staff supporting the council on linkages between academia and public health practice (council on linkages) facilitate developing consensus across 24 diverse national organizations working to improve public health and population health practice, education, and research. Phf has also expanded work to strengthen linkages between public health, and healthcare communities. In 2021, the council on linkages adopted the revised core competencies for public health professionals, addressing contemporary public health issues and needs. These competencies are used by the majority of u.s. State, tribal, local, and territorial health departments. Phf and the council on linkages are also home to the academic health department (ahd) learning community, an initiative that enables knowledge exchange and collaboration around use of the ahd model to enhance public health education, research, and service.

Phf assists public health organizations in efforts to improve their performance and achieve their public health objectives. This is accomplished through: 1) developing and communicating training and key messages, such as providing current and critical information about covid-19 and influenza vaccinations; 2) assessing and documenting adherence to policies, procedures, and organizational protocols; 3) assessing impacts of program performance on health; and 4) developing recommendations on ways to improve program performance. Phf has played a major role throughout the covid-19 pandemic, helping public health and healthcare providers find and access timely information necessary for appropriate actions. Phf also is working to address the need for people to receive their routine and seasonal immunizations.

Phf helps organizations prioritize challenges and make measurable improvements through its performance improvement consulting services. Sometimes this requires improving internal processes that result in improved efficiency, effectiveness, and better internal and external customer service. Other times, this requires working with stakeholder collaboratives to better understand root causes of health problems, align and refine diverse efforts of stakeholders, and achieve improvements in community health. Whether focusing internally, externally, or both, phf helps organizations achieve real improvement and impact.these technical assistance and training services provide facilitation and coaching to public health organizations to aid departments, agencies, boards, divisions and their community and healthcare partners in implementing performance management, quality improvement, and workforce development. All of these services are facilitated on-site and remote by phf's experts.the learning resource center (lrc) is an online bookstore dedicated to providing professionals with the educational and training materials they need to better protect public health and promote healthy communities.the phf website (www.phf.org) provides trusted information, and hundreds of tools and resources that help public health and healthcare organizations operate more effectively and efficiently, to improve community health.communication and cross-sector collaborations. Phf works across sectors to build capacity where it is needed and bring out the best in those working for healthier communities. We help organizations connect and more effectively use information to manage and improve performance, understand and use data and strengthen the workforce.