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Newsletter: Public Health System Transformation Update
Transforming the Public Health System in Minnesota
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These regular updates from the Joint Leadership Team for System Transformation in Minnesota share more on how and why we're updating Minnesota's public health system to be seamless, responsive, and publicly-supported.
These updates will not contain information on how to implement foundational responsibility grant funding or deadlines; for information on grant responsibilities and deadlines, please visit: Funding for Foundational Public Health Responsibilities.
June 2024: What does a responsive public health system look like?
May 2024: What does a seamless public health system look like?
April 2024: What are foundational responsibilities?
March 2024: Inaugural newsletter
June 2024
What does a responsive public health system look like?
Join the Joint Leadership Team to consider what a responsive public health system looks like, and for a deeper dive on flexible funding for foundational public health responsibilities.
A deeper dive: Flexible funding for foundational responsibilities
To do foundational public health work within a local context, Minnesota community health boards need funding that’s flexible, complements community strengths, and meets local opportunities...
What does a responsive public health system look like?
It can react quickly and effectively to today’s opportunities and challenges, plan for tomorrow’s, and use lessons learned from the past to grow stronger and more capable...
What's on our radar this month?
Communications: National League of Cities: "Plain Talk About" series discusses ways to communicate more clearly about community health, well-being, health equity, and systems change...
May 2024
What does a seamless public health system look like?
Join Commissioner Tarryl Clark of Stearns County to consider what a seamless public health system means, hear updates, and more.
Commissioner Tarryl Clark: What does system transformation mean to you?
Like many elected officials, I entered public service because I wanted to find ways to connect with others, to help strengthen families and create vibrant communities...
What does a seamless public health system look like?
It works cohesively: across jurisdictions, levels of government, geographies, sectors, and more. Where you live shouldn’t determine your level of public health protection...
What's happening this month?
Speaking consistently about the role and value of public health, using data on capacity to support strategic and business planning, kicking off work to increase capacity in foundational responsibilities, and convening to learn, discuss, and share...
Resources on our radar
A webinar from PHAB on service and resource-sharing approaches, and a book from de Beaumont on communicating about health...
April 2024
What are foundational responsibilities?
Join the Joint Leadership Team to learn what foundational responsibilities look like today and in the future.
What are foundational responsibilities?
The foundational responsibilities consist of the population-level activities unique to governmental public health, all encircled by equity. These responsibilities should be in place everywhere for public health to work anywhere in Minnesota...
What do foundational responsibilities look like in practice?
Public health partners across Minnesota, at the state, local, tribal, and community level, are working together to answer...
On our radar: Resources and opportunities
A docuseries from PBS on how public health makes modern life possible, and a book from ASTHO on strategic skills for public health professionals...
March 2024
Inaugural newsletter
Join Nick Kelley of Bloomington Public Health to learn about the Joint Leadership Team and what it's working on this month.
Nick Kelley of Bloomington Public Health: What does system transformation mean to you?
When I was growing up, my dad was a nurse and my mom taught special education, and we would often hear stories of our family’s history of public service. I grew up with a love of history and a fascination for infectious disease...
What's happening this month?
Locally-led innovation projects, an environmental scan of the public health system, flexible funding for foundational responsibilities, strengthening Tribal health infrastructure...
What is the Joint Leadership Team?
The Joint Leadership Team envisions a seamless, responsive, publicly-supported public health system that works closely with the community to ensure healthy, safe, and vibrant communities...
A note from the Joint Leadership Team
We heard you ask for more consistent and transparent communication about Minnesota’s work to transform, strengthen, and update the governmental public health system, and we understand...
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