Board Governance

National Public Health Performance Standards

NALBOH is dedicated to assisting in the governing and leadership role of boards of health by providing them with guidance in areas such as advocacy, public health law, financial planning, strategic planning, and health officer relationships. NALBOH works in partnership with other nationally renowned public health organizations that promote and support the strengthening of local public health agencies and the local public health system.

NALBOH works in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other partners to promote the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP). NPHPSP is an assessment tool used to measure infrastructure and capacity of public health systems. The governance assessment tool, used primarily by boards of health, assists governing bodies in assessing their capacity to provide oversight of the Ten Essential Public Health Services. To learn more about participating in the assessment process, please click on the National Public Health Performance Standards link.

NALBOH also supports public health accreditation and works closely with the Public Health Accreditation Board. Boards of health will play a crucial role in assisting local public health jurisdictions in preparing for accreditation in 2011. To learn more about how you can assist your local public health districts in the accreditation process, please click on the accreditation link above.

To learn more about how these two innovative programs are related, click here (PDF).

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Your Input Needed: Draft of Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals

In the 7 years since the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals were adopted by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, the field of public health has seen major changes - from the events of September 11, 2001 to new technologies and an aging workforce. On May 23, 2008, the Council unanimously approved the new draft of the Core Competencies. In refining and updating the Core Competencies, the Council focused on the "mid-tier" of public health workers - that is, those workers with an MPH (or related degree) and 5 years work experience, or individuals not having a public health degree but having at least 10 years of public health or public health-related work experience.

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) would like board of health members to provide them with your comments on the draft Core Competencies by clicking here. The public comment period ends December 31, 2008.

New Consensus Statement From PHQF

The Public Health Quality Forum (PHQF), under the direction of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Health, has developed a consensus statement intended to serve as a principle to enhance and guide goals of existing and future programs that promote quality. Click here to view the report (PDF).

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