IPHI’s Senior Evaluation Manager co-wrote an article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
Local health departments (LHDs) use data with the intent to understand the issues and trends impacting the health of their community members. Accordingly, many LHDs rely on secondary data to inform their work. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health data infrastructure’s unmet needs became even more pronounced with duplicative and competing dashboards, fractured data systems, and limited local data analytic capacity. To better understand LHDs’ data needs, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) hosted a two-hour workshop with about 50 public health practitioners in July 2022. The workshop used a user-centered design approach with participants….
Read the full article: Meeting Local Health Departments’ Data Capacity Needs: Opportunities for Secondary Data Source Providers