State Community Health Services Advisory Committee

Contact Info

SCHSAC
651-201-3880
health.schsac@state.mn.us

Standing and Active SCHSAC Workgroups

A great deal of SCHSAC work is conducted through workgroups. Each workgroup usually meets for one to three years, depending on its charge and duties.

If you are a current SCHSAC member and would like to get involved in a workgroup, please contact the MDH Center for Public Health Practice at health.schsac@state.mn.us and staff will connect you with workgroup leads.

Charge: The Executive Committee meets five to eight times per year. It briefly meets prior to the full SCHSAC meetings to make final changes to the agenda and to discuss related issues. Additional meetings are scheduled throughout the year, as needed. It also:

  • Assists MDH in preparing issues for discussion by SCHSAC and conducts interim SCHSAC business
  • Assists SCHSAC in managing its business efficiently
  • Under special circumstances, acts in the name of SCHSAC (subject to formal approval by SCHSAC at its next meeting
  • Prepares the annual SCHSAC work plan
  • Examines ways to increase the capacity of SCHSAC

Members: The SCHSAC Executive Committee consists of representatives from each SCHSAC region. Each region also has an alternate to the Executive Committee. For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Charge: The Awards and Nominating Workgroup solicits and selects nominees for the Community Health Awards presented annually at the Community Health Conference and prepares a ballot to elect the SCHSAC chair each December.

Members: The workgroup consists of three to five community health board representatives and one Center for Health Equity Advisory Committee representative. The workgroup meets two to three times per year via conference call.

To learn more about the EHCIB, please visit: Environmental Health Continuous Improvement Board.

Charge: The Foundational Public Health Responsibilities (FPHR) Workgroup will develop a recommendation for a set of minimum standards for assessing the implementation of foundational public health responsibilities.

The work will include, in part:

  • Review and refinement of the current definitions of foundational public health responsibilities.
  • Establishment of criteria to help distinguish between statewide, population-based foundational responsibilities and community-specific services.
  • Consideration of local and state health department roles and responsibilities associated with the foundational public health responsibilities.

Read the full workgroup charter here: FPHR Workgroup Charter

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Past meetings and summaries: 

Charge: The IDCIB works to ensure an effective and efficient state-local partnership in the infectious disease area of public health responsibility. The group serves as a forum for regular communication, identification of issues, and joint problem-solving. The group also ensures the DP&C Common Activities Framework remains a relevant, useful document.

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Charge

The Local Public Health (LPH) Data Modernization Workgroup provides a
governance structure to lead and coordinate LPH data system transformation
as part of a whole governmental public health system approach to data
modernization. The LPH Health Data Modernization Workgroup works in
concert with other public health system transformation efforts and supports
the advancement of a more aligned, transparent, and reciprocal
governmental public health data partnership between LPH and the
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). This workgroup will:

  • Identify LPH data needs and priorities for data system
    transformation and state and local collaboration to support LPH in
    meeting Foundational Public Health data capabilities, building a 21st
    century data infrastructure, accessing/exchanging data, and
    implementing data informed public health practice.
  • Advocate for resources, technical assistance, policies, standards, and
    practices that ensures LPH is able to access, collect, use, and share
    data in ways that advance health equity and meets the needs of their
    communities.
  • Work to unite local public health in data modernization by building
    trust, transparent and consistent communications, shared
    understanding, and buy-in for collective efforts to create a 21st century
    LPH data system.

View the full workgroup charter: LPH Data Modernization Workgroup Charter (PDF)

Charge: The Member Development Workgroup leads efforts to educate and develop SCHSAC members and assists Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) staff in conducting member development activities.

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Charge: The Performance Measurement Workgroup leads efforts to measure and assess the performance of Minnesota’s governmental public health system and its capacity to carry out public health responsibilities. This workgroup: 

  • Develops and recommends to SCHSAC a set of performance measures for Minnesota’s governmental public health system
  • Sets and monitors performance-related goals for Minnesota’s governmental public health system
  • Analyzes data to assess the performance of Minnesota’s governmental public health system
  • Develops system performance reports and communicates findings to SCHSAC, LPHA, and MDH
  • Issues recommendations for continued system performance improvement and accountability to SCHSAC, LPHA, and MDH
  • Engages subject matter experts and other interested parties, including other SCHSAC workgroups and the Joint Leadership Team for Public Health System Transformation, for feedback and discussion about performance measures, goals, analysis, and recommendations related to system performance measurement
  • Considers health equity in all aspects of its work
  • Advocates for performance management and using data for decision-making

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Read the 2024 performance measurement and accountability requirement approved recommendations: Performance Measurement and Performance-Related Accountability Requirement Approved Recommendations 2024 (PDF)

Past meetings and summaries:

Charge

The Public Health Emergency Preparedness Oversight Work Group, a standing SCHSAC workgroup, will remain a standing committee to:

  • Partner with MDH to guide the strategic direction for public health emergency preparedness and response readiness across Minnesota (state, local, tribal) within the framework of the CDC PHEP Capabilities grant guidance, and other state response readiness funding.
  • Provide ongoing review of public health emergency preparedness programs and issues.
  • Oversee the continued development of capacity assessment and identify data elements to strengthen Minnesota’s emergency preparedness programs and inform reports to state and local funders.
  • Advocate for resources that sustain and maintain public health emergency preparedness capabilities.

Publications:

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

To view workgroup materials or final reports, please contact the MDH Center for Public Health Practice.

For a roster of SCHSAC workgroups prior to 2013, please contact the MDH Center for Public Health Practice.

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Last Updated: 05/07/2025