Indian Health Service’s Post

Six policy recommendations re: the future of public health from ICF's John Auerbach, Alice Chen, Bisola Ojikutu, and Denise Octavia Smith: 1) establish state and local community councils to formalize the roles of community-based organizations in public health decision making 2) dedicate funding to these organizations 3) offer funding that is not limited to a specific disease or condition 4) simplify procurement and reporting processes directed to community-based organizations 5) create a training and technical assistance program for these organizations and 6) increase public health worker diversity, including sustainable funding for community health workers. #healthpolicy #publichealth

Population Health Management Guidebook

MY REFLECTION ON THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN ZAMBIA Cholera is an old disease that has tormented man including the great nations of today- England. This is very interesting. There is a gap between professional input and the job expectations of public health practitioners which must be dissected properly. Real experts do not head Public Health but opportunists whose interests are certainly not the public's health. As a result, deployed staff are housed in health facilities where they spend most of their time on social media rather than doing public health. If you take time to ask the practitioners to give you their job description later on their work plan and weekly to-do list out of 10 only one will be able to produce incomplete documents, the rest will have nothing to give you. A health institution cannot house a public health practitioner but is just a point where public health pointers are found. In my view, public health practitioners must be allocated streets or compounds to manage public health concerns other than health institutions. They must be mobile and accountable by applying strict public health intervention through organized community action.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is in the process of developing a vision for what public health assessment in Canada could look like by 2030. They need to hear from you to make sure that the vision is well informed by the perspectives of Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour - so among others - there is a strong and consistent call for ethno-racial and other equity-defined disaggregated data - across all measures, indicators, and indices - to make all the many hidden inequities and disparities visible, to inform public health planning and interventions, as well as to focus and appropriately target any and all initiatives to address social/structural/systemic determinants of health.

Check out a recent publication highlighting the vital role of public health infrastructure in delivering essential public health services in Indian country supported by my CDC Healthy Tribes and Tribal Epi Center Public Health Infrastructure colleagues.

Population Health Management for a healthy society

Look no further on how to implement Population Health Management Programs in your organization. Feel free to use this guidebook within the context of your organization #SaudiCHI #مجلس_الضمان_الصحي

Public health services in Nepal.

Interesting blog - drawing out important issues regarding the alignment of ICB leadership roles (e.g population health) and Director of Public Health and others in local government. Currently there is duplication and at times a lack of clarity. Now more than ever we need to be clear and focussed. Inequalities and gaps in Health, wealth and wellbeing are widening. These roles are a valuable resource and need to be aligned. #inequalities #populationhealthmanagement #preciousresources

Am happy to share my publications 1. Karuga R, Kok M, Mbindyo P, et al. How context influences the functionality of community-level health governance structures: a case study of community health committees in Kenya. Int J Health Plann Mgmt. 2023; 1-XXX. https://lnkd.in/d-H6gUn7. 2.Community participation in the health system: analyzing the implementation of community health committee policies in Kenya | Primary Health Care Research & Development | Cambridge Core - https://bit.ly/45LdWnL