All Blogs, Director's Blog - October 17, 2013 The Legacy of All Kids Count Shawn Eastridge 16 years ago, PHII began as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program called All Kids Count. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - October 7, 2013 Embracing Wikipedia to Improve Population Health Shawn Eastridge In a recent interview from The Atlantic, one medical school professor said writing off Wikipedia entirely is a missed opportunity for the health care community. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - September 4, 2013 Moving into Evidence-Based Practice Shawn Eastridge Two public health programs recently combined into a new single operational center funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - September 2, 2013 Getting Back to Our Roots: The Rise of Local Health Depts in the US Shawn Eastridge In 1911, a typhoid epidemic sparked a series of events that led to the beginnings of the modern local public health system. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - August 13, 2013 The Informatics Academy: An Integrated Professional Education Approach Shawn Eastridge Last week, an online course from the Informatics Academy introduced 60 public health professionals to the IT Lifecycle. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - July 22, 2013 NYC Macroscope: Using EHRs to Monitor Population Health Shawn Eastridge New York City is developing a population health surveillance system that uses EHRs to track chronic conditions managed by primary care practices. Read More >