A Health Department's Collaborative Model for Disease Surveillance Capacity Building

Authors

  • Ikechi Konkwo Institute for Public Health Informatics and Research, Duval County Health Dept, Jacksonville, FL|<u>I. Konkwo</u>, Center for Health Equity and Research - University of Florida/Shands Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL
  • Robert G. Harmon Institute for Public Health Informatics and Research, Duval County Health Dept, Jacksonville, FL
  • William C. Livingood Institute for Public Health Informatics and Research, Duval County Health Dept, Jacksonville, FL|W.C. Livingood, Center for Health Equity and Research - University of Florida/Shands Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL
  • Thomas Bryant III Institute for Public Health Informatics and Research, Duval County Health Dept, Jacksonville, FL
  • Saad Zaheer Institute for Public Health Informatics and Research, Duval County Health Dept, Jacksonville, FL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4433

Abstract

Academic health departments present a paradigm for local health authorities as they struggle to serve amidst calls for quality in public health service delivery and dwindling resource allocations to the sector. Duval County Health Department, Florida, presents a novel community based model of an academic health department. This approach to interagency collaboration yields dividends in increasing the capacity of the health department to deliver core public health services, impacts positively on chronic disease surveillance, population health and health services research and positions the department to seize opportunities for further capacity building as they arise.

Author Biography

Ikechi Konkwo, Institute for Public Health Informatics and Research, Duval County Health Dept, Jacksonville, FL|<u>I. Konkwo</u>, Center for Health Equity and Research - University of Florida/Shands Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL

Ikechi Konkwo: An international medical graduate with MPH (Public Health Management)/Health IT Certificate (Clinician/Public Health professional) from the Department of Health Services Management and Leadership, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington DC. Currently a CDC/CSTE sponsored Applied Public Health Informatics fellow with the Institute for Public Health Informatics and Research of the Duval County Health Department and Center for Health Equity and Research, University of Florida-Shands Medical Center, Jacksonville, Florida.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Konkwo, I., Harmon, R. G., Livingood, W. C., Bryant III, T., & Zaheer, S. (2013). A Health Department’s Collaborative Model for Disease Surveillance Capacity Building. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4433

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Oral Presentations: Information Sharing & Partnerships