The Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) is a first of its kind investment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that supports the critical public health infrastructure needs of 107 health departments across the United States, U.S. Territories, and Freely Associated States.
PHIG gives health departments the flexibility to direct funds towards specific organizational and community needs that strengthen public health outcomes. The groundbreaking grant is helping ensure that U.S. communities have the people, services, and systems needed to promote and protect health and create a stronger, more resilient public health system that is ready to face future health threats.
The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) is one of the three PHIG national partners alongside the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) working to support the successful implementation of PHIG. The national partners are working to maximize CDC's record investment through three strategies:
- Workforce – Recruit, retain, support, and train the public health workforce.
- Foundational Capabilities – Strengthen systems, processes, and policies.
- Data Modernization – Deploy scalable, flexible, and sustainable technologies.
PHAB’s Role in PHIG
As a national leader in advancing public health transformation and practice, PHAB provides training and technical assistance (TA) to PHIG recipients and plays a central role in coordinating efforts across partners and recipients. PHAB co-leads the evaluation of the grant and and drives communications efforts to elevate the impact of the PHIG program—collecting and developing compelling stories, Promising Practices, and other assets that showcase recipient successes and inspire progress across the field. Through an additional supplemental award focused on Data Modernization Implementation Acceleration, PHAB works alongside ASTHO and NNPHI to support the establishment of Implementation Centers focused on accelerating public health data.
- PHAB TA topic areas include Accreditation readiness and implementation support, assessing and reporting on public health capacity and capabilities, shared resource and service sharing, developing a vision and plan for public health transformation, using the FPHS, systems planning, and workforce planning.
- The PHIG national partners, including PHAB, offer responsive and proactive TA opportunities for all PHIG recipients including webinars, trainings, affinity groups, and more.
- PHAB and NNPHI comprise the National Evaluation Team (NET). The NET co-leads the national evaluation of PHIG, in coordination with CDC and with participation from ASTHO to ensure alignment
- The Evaluation Advisory Group, comprised of CDC, PHIG recipients, national partners, and others informs the evaluation, design, implementation, and dissemination of findings
- Committed to reducing the data collection burden on health departments as much as possible, the NET actively looks for ways to use existing data (e.g., PH WINS, NACCHO/ASTHO profiles) and incorporate aggregate data from recipients' workplans to reduce response burden on recipients.
- Through the DMI supplement award, CDC and the national partners provide technical assistance to state, Tribal, local and territorial jurisdictions (STLTs) through Implementation Centers (ICs).
- Three ICs have been established to provide support to state, local, and Tribal jurisdictions. One Implementation Center is in the early stages of development to provide support to Tribal audiences; the Tribal IC’s structure and work will be co-designed with Tribes.
- ICs support STLTs advancing short-term projects that enable more flexible advanced data-sharing methods.
- ICs provide direct assistance to STLTs to accelerate public health data exchange and linkage efforts with the goal of reduced burden on healthcare systems/providers,
- Increased timeliness and completeness of data exchange, and
- Improved prevention and detection of public health threats.
The Promising Practices Initiative
PHIG recipients have expressed a strong desire to learn from their peers’ successes to inform public health infrastructure improvements. To meet this need, the PHIG National Evaluation Team (NET) has launched the Promising Practices Initiative: a way to showcase practices that PHIG recipients have implemented successfully so that public health professionals across the country can adapt evidence-based approaches to their work.
Practices at any stage of development or implementation are welcome.
Submissions and nominations will be accepted throughout the lifecycle of PHIG.
We will also be identifying potential Promising Practices from existing data (e.g., Targeted Evaluation Plans (TEPs)). We may reach out to recipients to provide more information on their practices.
If you have any questions about the submission process, please reach out to the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) Evaluation Team at [email protected].
Self-submit a Practice
Nominate a Practice
Selected PHIG Related Resources from PHAB
In addition to PHAB’s technical assistance for PHIG recipients and the resources available on the PHIG Partner Website, PHAB also offers a range of additional PHIG-related tools and materials:
- Accreditation and Reaccreditation Readiness Resources
- Strategic Planning and CHA/CHIP Resources
- Service and Resource Sharing Resources
- Foundational Public Health Services Delivery Resources
- Performance Management and Quality Improvement Resources
- Innovation Process Resources
- Workforce Planning and Development Resources
- Foundational Public Health Services Capacity and Cost Assessment Resources
- Live Webinars and On-Demand Trainings
