Building a Sustainable Public Health PBRN: Tips for Securing Ongoing Research Funding

Diversify your network’s research funding base. The Public Health PBRN Program funding made available by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides start-up resources and initial research support for networks, but networks will require larger and more sustainable sources of funding for public health research as they progress. The most ample sources can be found in federal funding agencies that operate competitive extramural research programs, include CDC, NIH, AHRQ, HRSA, USDA, and NSF. Public health research funding is also available from state and foundation sources, and even corporate sources (e.g. Pfizer’s Public Health Research Fellowship Program). For sustainability, networks should look to diversify their sources of funding for research projects and avoid reliance on a single source for very long. The research and demonstration opportunities created by the federal Affordable Care Act, and the growing emphasis on translational and community-based research at NIH, provide particularly compelling funding opportunities for public health PBRNs

Using Public Health PBRN Research to Inform Policy & Practice

The Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports research networks dedicated to producing new scientific knowledge on how best to organize, finance, and deliver public health strategies in realworld practice settings. This body of scientific inquiry, known as Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR), is a rapidly developing area of scholarship within the larger fields of public health research and health services research. A public health practice-based research network (PBRN) brings multiple public health organizations into collaboration with an academic research center for the purposes of designing and implementing PHSSR studies in real-world practice settings. Participating public health professionals and researchers collaborate to identify pressing research questions of interest, design rigorous and relevant studies, execute research effectively and efficiently, and translate findings rapidly into practice

National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems: 2011-2012 Wave

Since 1998, researchers have followed a nationally representative cohort of U.S. communities to examine the types of public health activities performed within the community, the range of organizations contributing to each activity, and the perceived effectiveness of each activity in addressing community needs. This information, obtained through a validated survey of local public health officials, provides an in-depth view of the structure and function of local public health delivery systems and how these systems evolve over time. Originally conducted with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems (NLSPHS) was fielded for the first time in 1998, with a follow-up survey conducted in 2006 as part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project to develop an evidence-based typology of local public health delivery systems. Each wave of the survey has been linked with data on local health departments collected from the prior year’s National Profile of Local Health Departments survey conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), allowing for an in-depth view of how local health departments relate to the multi-organizational delivery systems in which they operate. These data, linked with still other data sources on community demographic, health, and economic characteristics, have supported a wide array of studies regarding the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services and provided considerable insight into policy and administrative mechanisms for improving the practice of public health

Psychological First Aid for Veteran Disaster Survivors and Their Families

Fundamentals of Psychological FirstAid Practical model for administering psychological first aid Veteran disaster survivors and their families Psychological First Aid: Field Operations Guide (2nd Edition

Public Health PBRNs: Generating Evidence for Policy & Practice

The Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports the development of research networks for studying the comparative effectiveness, efficiency and equity of public health strategies deployed in real-world practice settings. A practice-based research network (PBRN) brings multiple public health agencies together with research partners to design and implement studies of population-based strategies that prevent disease and injury and promote health. Participating practitioners and researchers collaborate to identify pressing research questions of interest, design rigorous and relevant studies, execute research effectively, and translate findings rapidly into practice. As such, PBRNs represent vehicles for expanding the volume and quality of practice-based research needed for evidence-based decision-making in public health. The Public Health PBRN Program is based at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, under the direction of Dr. Glen Mays

The future of public health practice in Europe

The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) identifies research, training, policy and practice as the four pillars for all its work. At a conference organised by the Association of School of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) in May 2016, an interesting session setting out a vision for these four areas for the coming years was organised. Josep Figueras and John Middelton outlined the challenges facing training and policy respectively in this session. They invited us to think outside the box and in a sense to reinvent public health in the 21st century. In this contribution, I focus on public health practice. Public health practitioners, who constitute an important part of EUPHA’s membership, are persons who typically work at the front line to translate research and policy into meaningful initiatives at local level.peer-reviewe

Prisons as Learning Environments for Nursing and Public Health Practice

Background: Challenges in Securing Community Nursing Rotation Sites Eighteen years of providing clinical placement for Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students has demonstrated that community-based educational opportunities are shrinking due to: •Increased regulatory requirements •Competing numbers of nursing schools •Increasing student enrollment •Decreasing availability of community resources capable and willing to precept students These issues present challenges to preparing students for nursing practice. A college of nursing at an urban, academic health center found a solution by working with unexpected partners – maximum security prisons and juvenile detention centers. A Novel Solution: Partnerships with Prisons Several factors make prisons an ideal learning environment for nursing students. Prisons serve as microcosms of society, reflecting social determinants of health within confined communities. They allow students to work alongside interprofessional teams experienced in correctional health, mental/behavioral health, infection control, and community health. There is ample opportunity for individual assessment and patient education, as well as population-based care. Finally, working with the diverse inmate population promotes cultural awareness and sensitivity. Poster presented at: Urban Health Symposium, Re-Imagining Health in Cities, From Local to Global. An international symposium hosted by The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative at the Dornsife School of Public Health. Philadelphia, Pa. September 7-8, 2017.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursingposters/1012/thumbnail.jp

PUBH 7090 – Public Health Practice Trends

Today’s public health landscape is increasingly complex and constantly changing. This course focuses on emerging trends and challenges in public health practice that epitomize the increasing complexity and nature of challenges facing public health practitioners

HSPM 7431 – Public Health Practice Trends

Today’s public health landscape is increasingly complex and constantly changing. This course focuses on emerging trends and challenges in public health practice that epitomize the increasing complexity and nature of challenges facing public health practitioners

Translating Evidence into Public Health Practice

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the third leading cause of deaths in Nigeria. Lack of clear understanding of where new infections are occurring may imply that state HIV prevention programme are not driven by evidence. Several evidences are available but not accessible and in other cases, accessible but not applied in planning and designing context-specific HIV interventions. This has led to a reversal or slow pace of controlling the epidemic in Nigeria for the past decades. A retrospective analysis of health data was collated and analyzed. Results were compared with established baseline in project interventions to determine if this available information were considered by policy makers, health planners and programme designers as HIV interventions are developed for states and at national level. Findings reveals that most states have used data to tailor-guide interventions leading to significant changes in behavior, uptake of HIV services and corresponding decline in HIV prevalence. Keywords: evidence-informed interventions, planning, HIV contro