Resources

Reports & Briefs

Development of the Cookbook: A Guide to Using CDC Data for Rural Analysis

The Population Health Innovation Lab (PHIL) partnered with the Office of Rural Health (ORH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop The Cookbook: A Guide to Using CDC Data for Rural Analysis. This resource was created to increase awareness and understanding of rural variables available in public health datasets provided by CDC, which can be used to help inform the rural public health knowledge base. The Cookbook provides step-by-step instructions (i.e., recipes) for accessing and processing CDC data for secondary analysis for rural public health research. Download the briefs below to read about key lessons learned and methods used to develop The Cookbook.  

Download the Cookbook Development Brief | Download the Cookbook Methods Brief

“Resilience Catalysts in Public Health” Evaluation Report

Resilience Catalysts in Public Health (RC) is a national collaborative of local health departments seeking to eliminate adversity, build resilience, and foster equity. Using the Community Resilience Framework, which is aligned with the goals of Public Health 3.0, RC sites receive technical assistance (TA) to apply a public health approach to address adverse childhood experiences and adverse community environments. In April and May 2023, PHIL conducted an evaluation of RC, surveying 29 individuals from 11 of the 13 RC sites and interviewing 19 individuals from nine sites and 14 TA providers/funders. Evaluation findings expand understanding of RC’s preliminary impact and inform implications for theory, practice, and funding in the post-COVID-19 context. 

Download the Full Report | Download the Infographic

“Improving Population Health Through Multisector Collaboration” Brief Series

The “Improving Population Health Through Multisector Collaboration” brief series synthesizes lessons learned from PHIL’s Aligning Systems for Health research conducted from May 2020 – November 2022 in six parts. Visit our brief series webpage to access all six briefs.

Advancing Equity: Adapting to Local Context and Confronting Power Dynamics. Lessons learned from Accountable Communities of/for Health

In 2021, the Population Health Innovation Lab’s Division of Research and Network Science conducted a study with six Accountable Communities of/for Health (ACH) in Washington and California that sought in-depth answers to the question: “How do local context and power dynamics influence an ACH’s ability to make progress toward improved equity?” Findings from this study are available in this report.

Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Screening in Rural Northern California: Exploring Provider Perspectives and Experiences

Through key informant interviews, this practice paper explores experiences regarding ACE screening from the perspective of Medi-Cal pediatric and family practice providers in rural Northern California to identify and understand barriers and facilitators in implementing ACE screening and best practices for trauma-informed care in the region. Supported by the California ACEs Aware Initiative, this research focuses on the six counties participating in PHIL’s Northern ACEs Collaborative (NAC), a multisector collaborative of 28 agencies working in Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity counties.

Health Impact in Five Years (HI-5): Lessons from the Field

The CDC Foundation, in partnership with CDC and with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, collaborated with PHIL and Anderson Smith Consulting on an exploratory project to identify and understand underlying factors that lead to successful implementation of two HI-5 CWIs: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and introduction or expansion of public transportation systems. Read the report to learn more.

Participatory Leadership for Community Inclusion

The Population Health Innovation Lab is thrilled to share its approach, methods, lessons learned, and outcomes resulting from a multi-year effort to build a Community of Practice focused on community engagement and inclusion in California.

Vermont ACH Peer Learning Lab Report

PHIL partnered with the State of Vermont and Vermont ACH sites to co-create the Peer Learning Lab, which supported teams from 10 communities statewide to test ACH implementation while increasing community capacity and readiness across the 9 Core Elements. This work included utilizing in-person and distance learning methods to support peer learning and community facilitation to support each community’s development over eight months. See the report to learn more.

Tools & Guides

Three Steps to a Healthy Heart Community: A Toolkit for Change Through Collective Action 

The Population Health Innovation Lab partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to explore and identify effective strategies to support collaboration among change agents in business, public health, healthcare, and community organizations in the implementation of evidence-based strategies to improve hypertension control from the CDC’s 6 | 18 Initiative. The interactive Toolkit for Change was informed by interviews with key informants from the business sector, health plans, healthcare providers, and nonprofit organizations. It is a starting place for those interested in making an impact on their community’s heart health.   

Powering Change: Building Healthy, Equitable Communities Together Curriculum

This practical, comprehensive, interactive curriculum supports cross-sector alignment and is for health-focused multisector collaboratives (MSCs) such as Accountable Communities of/for Health (ACH) backbone staff or partners and new or existing collaboratives. It also helps you operationalize the development of effective MSCs, allows you to nurture a sustainable culture, and improves co-creation of solutions with your partners.

Toolbox for Measuring Cross-Sector Alignment

The Toolbox for Measuring Cross-Sector Alignment includes resources developed by the Population Health Innovation Lab (PHIL) and others for measuring aligning across sectors. If you need support in measuring success in your aligning efforts or just aren’t sure where to start, these resources may be able to help.

Measurement Toolbox Overview

Accountable Communities for Health Start-Up Guide

This ACH Start Up Guide is a result of a need for change in population health approaches and best practices that have emerged from the field. It is filled with methods, practices, tools and a general framework that may be applied to a variety of changes happening within any community. The intent is to make this guide available for use by local leaders who want to operate as an Accountable Community for Health (ACH).

Time to Transform: Adaptive Approaches for Population Health

PHIL and the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice collaborated on the Learning Laboratory project to help collaboratives form a community of practice with a shared purpose, a common language, and common tools and resources at their disposal. Through this work, collaboratives reframed complex challenges as opportunities, which helped to continue building capacity for additional Learning Laboratories and expand this community of practice to realize the goals of the Public Health 3.0 model. See the report for more.

Web Discussions

We bring together experts on multisector collaboratives (MSCs) to explore population health issues and evidence-based research and methodologies. We also discuss innovative, sustainable solutions to improve health, well-being, and equity. Visit our PHIL YouTube and the PHIL Events page for videos, slides, and more.

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