JPHMP Direct June 5, 2023
Building on decades of research on the benefits of systems-integration, the concept of Public Health 3.0 emerged in 2016, challenging America to focus on cross-sector collaboration and engagement to improve the determinants of health as a step to achieving health equity. In 2020, the country was put to the test as COVID-19 emerged and rocked the status quo. Public health and healthcare systems—and their workforce—were tested and tried in new ways. In our case, that meant catalyzing collaboration and innovation as we developed and deployed “Pandemic Response Officers: and Integration Between Medical, Public Health, and Higher Education Systems to Expedite Prevention and Response.”
The Importance of Integration: how collaboration is optimized with aligned systems
Our team comprised representatives from a...