Through the Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG), IPHI is helping health departments better understand their workforce and strengthen their teams. Our work helps departments gather valuable insights into staff morale, motivation, and reasons for staying or leaving their jobs.

We do this by developing and implementing a series of surveys and listening sessions:

• “Stay Surveys”:  Design surveys to gather feedback from current staff about their satisfaction and motivation. These insights help leaders understand what’s working well and what can be improved.
• Exit Surveys: Conduct surveys when an employee leaves, to understand their experience and their reasons for departing. This provides crucial information for improving retention strategies.
• Listening Sessions: Facilitate department-specific listening sessions to follow up on survey findings. This creates a safe space for employees to share their experiences and for leaders to develop a full picture of the staff experience.

By combining this feedback, we help health departments create a more positive and supportive organizational culture. This effort is all about strengthening the public health workforce and ensuring that departments have the best possible teams to serve their communities.

The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) received CDC funding through the OE22-2203: Strengthening U.S. Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems grant to provide technical assistance to state and local health departments (LHDs) using a “Hub and Spoke Model.” This model is a method to organize and distribute public health expertise, involving a central hub that coordinates and aligns training and technical assistance provided by spokes to health departments. NNPHI is partnering with nine regional Hubs to support a tailored technical assistance response. As the Region 3 Hub, Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) subcontracted IPHI to serve as a spoke.