At the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Community Health Epidemiology, we strive to achieve and sustain the following;
- Innovation: Promote and use innovative, state-of-the-art methods and approaches;
- Leadership: Become a regional leader in conducting community and population health assessments, research, and training;
- Mentorship: Provide an supportive environment that values and supports mentoring and continued professional development;
- Traineeships: Provide training opportunities for university public health students;
- Collaboration: Collaborate with and involve stake holders, partners, and other agencies;
- Evidence-based: Assess, promote and use evidence-based practices;
- Technical expertise: Provide high-level technical expertise and assistance to partners and stakeholders;
- Community resource: Be a community resource by having open communication of methods, processes, and results.
At Community Health Epidemiology, we have prioritized the following activities:
- Develop models for ranking public health priorities based on health-relevant outcomes;
- Assess the burden of disease and injury using existing population-based databases;
- Assess the distribution of high priority risk factors and determinants;
- Develop and maintain a prevention attribution matrix that links high priority outcomes to strong underlying determinants and evidence-based interventions;
- Develop processes for working with and supporting existing community health programs;
- Develop database and repository of existing completed research reports for San Francisco;
- Develop database of available population-base data sets for San Francisco;
- Maintain and update San Francisco mortality and birth data;
- Maintain and update San Francisco Census data;
- Develop and maintain library of research methods and analytic tools appropriate for small area analyses;
- Promote and coordinate community and population health research with external organizations;
- Recruit and train graduate student interns and researchers interested in community and population health assessments;
- Recruit and train post-graduate research fellows interested in community health population health assessments; and
- Apply for research and training grants based on public health priorities.
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