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OHA Public Health Division Overview

The Oregon Public Health Division is dedicated to promoting lifelong health and preventing leading causes of death, disease, and injury in Oregon. Our priorities include tobacco reduction, obesity prevention, oral health improvement, substance use harm reduction, suicide prevention, vaccine preventable disease elimination, and communicable disease protection.

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OHA Public Health Division Overview

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  1. OHA Public Health Division Overview Danna Drum, Manager Public Health Systems Innovation and Partnerships Office of the State Public Health Director PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION Office of the State Public Health Director

  2. Organization Overview

  3. Oregon Health Authority Vision: A healthy Oregon Mission: Helping people and communities achieve optimum physical, mental and social well-being through partnerships, prevention and access to quality, affordable health care Core Values: Service excellence, Leadership, Integrity, Partnership, Innovation

  4. Oregon Health Authority

  5. Public Health Division Vision: Lifelong health for all people in Oregon Mission: Promoting health and preventing the leading causes of death, disease and injury in Oregon

  6. Division Leadership Lillian Shirley PHD Director Katrina Hedberg State Epidemiologist and Health Officer

  7. Meet the Center Administrators Tim Noe Center for Prevention & Health Promotion Jere High Center for Health Protection Collette Young Center for Public Health Practice

  8. Our role as “guides” Improve lifelong health of all Oregonians Advance health equity Promote equal access to conditions in which people can be healthy

  9. State Health Improvement Plan

  10. State Health Improvement Plan Priorities • Prevent and reduce tobacco use • Slow the increase of obesity • Improve oral health • Reduce harms associated with substance use • Prevent deaths from suicide • Eliminate the burden of vaccine preventable diseases • Protect the population from communicable diseases

  11. PHD Priorities - SHIP • Provide data • Share evidence base • Learn about promising and emerging practices from local and tribal partners • Leverage synergies across OHA • Leverage work with other statewide partners

  12. www.healthoregon.org/modernization

  13. PHD Priorities • Identify how our work needs to be organized differently to increase efficiencies, cultivate synergies and improve outcomes • Be accountable to the Legislature and the Public Health Advisory Board • Continue to modernize regardless of funding • Ongoing work with LHDs to implement modernization across the state and county components of the system • Tribal engagement in implementation

  14. Other Areas of Focus

  15. Other Areas of Focus • Medical Marijuana • www.healthoregon.org/ommp • Cleaner Air Oregon (air emissions) • www.cleanerair.oregon.gov • Healthy Schools Initiative (lead and radon) • www.healthoregon.org/healthyschools

  16. PHD Priorities • Bring human health perspective to the issues • Work with other state agencies and statewide partners • Keep Counties and Tribes informed of progress • Provide tools for local work • Establish Public Health as a trusted resource

  17. What You Can Do • Identify work you are doing that aligns with these priorities and let us know of opportunities you see • Identify what you need from us to support these priorities • Communicate resources you may have to support these priorities • Keep PHD informed of what’s happening in your community • Establish Public Health as a trusted resource

  18. Questions and Discussion

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