Office of Public Health Assessment

The Utah Public Health Improvement Initiative (UPHII) is part of a national initiative funded through CDC as part of the Prevention and Public Health Fund of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The purpose of the UPHII is to increase capacity in Utah Department of Health (UDOH) and Utah's local health departments to routinely evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our organizational practices, partnerships, program use of resources, and optimize the impact of Utahs public health system in order to improve the public's health.

The Utah Public Health Improvement Initiative is located in the Office of Public Health Assessment led by Kathryn Marti. Laverne Snow is the Utah Public Health Improvement Manager. Dr. Barry Nangle is the Principal Investigator for this grant program and Dr. Robert Rolfs, UDOH Deputy Director, is our program sponsor.

UDOH actively partners with the Utah Association of Local Health Departments (UALHD) in the UPHII. Local public health improvement activities are led and coordinated by Anna Dillingham and sponsored by Kathy Froerer, Executive Director of UALHD.

We value your ongoing efforts to search out and test better methods for improving the public's health and achieving the public health mission to foster and create conditions in which people can be healthy. If we can be of assistance, please feel free to request consultation or information about quality improvement and/or public health accreditation through our program. This website will provide a tool box of resources and documents to provide information and assist in quality improvement activities. Please feel free to offer suggestions and resources to help improve our website and our programs contributions.

Utah Public Health Improvement Program Activities

• Coming Soon!

Toolbox of Resources and Documents

• Coming Soon!

Resource Links

• Resource Links (updated 7/14/11)

Best Practices and Evidence-based Interventions

• Best Practices and Evidence-based Interventions (updated 7/18/11)
• Evidence-based Public Health in Action: Strategies from New York (updated 7/18/11)
• EBPH Strategies from New York: Powerpoint Slides (updated 7/18/11)

Project Management Community of Practice

• Project Management Community of Practice, presented by Laverne Snow, June 29, 2011
• IBIS CoP*: A UDOH Model, presented by Tong Zheng, June 29, 2011
• Practical Examples and Uses of Project Management, presented by Nancy McConnell, June 29, 2011
• Project Management Community of Practice Wiki Site, presented by Joshua Legler, June 29, 2011

Return on Investment in Public Health

• New York State's Prevention Agenda toward the Healthiest State - Return on Investment, (added October 18, 2011)

For questions, email the Utah Public Health Improvement Program manager, Laverne Snow.

Contact Information:
Laverne Alves Snow, MPA
Utah Public Health Improvement Program
Performance and Infrastructure Project
Office of Public Health Assessment, Center for Health Data
Utah Department of Health
288 North 1460 West, P.O. Box 142101
Salt Lake City, Utah  84114-2101
801-538-9065
Email: lavernesnow@utah.gov

For questions about performance improvement at local health districts in Utah, email the Utah Public Health Improvement Program manager, Anna Dillingham.

Contact Information:
Anna Dillingham, MPH
Performance Improvement Manager
Utah Association of Local Health Departments
715 North 1890 West, Suite 39B
Provo, UT 84601
Email: adillingham@ualhd.org
Web: www.ualhd.org