Tag: Public Health

Consistent standards, against which the nation’s approximately 3,000 state, tribal, local, and territorial public health departments can continuously work to improve the quality of their services and performance, forms the basis of public health accreditation. Accreditation by PHAB signifies that a health department is meeting those standards to provide essential public health services in the […]

Facilitation takes skill and finesse especially when a facilitator manages sensitive topics like fatality reviews or other epidemiologic surveillance. Recently an organization requested training of personnel who facilitate fatality reviews. Mary Homan designed a two-hour training session and trained 20 public health and public safety professionals in facilitating fatality reviews. She subsequently created a facilitator’s […]