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Transforming the Public Health System in Minnesota
Everyone in Minnesota should have the opportunity to be their healthiest, no matter who they are or where they live.
Public health workers, elected officials, and community members cooperate to overcome all types of barriers we face to living our healthiest lives.
However, Minnesota's approach to public health was designed nearly 50 years ago, and doesn't meet today's funding and resource challenges. It's time to invest in a new approach that embraces fair funding and creative collaboration to meet today's complex needs.
We envision a seamless, responsive, publicly-supported public health system that works closely with the community to ensure healthy, safe, and vibrant communities. This system of state, local, and tribal health departments will help Minnesotans be healthy regardless of where they live.
In Minnesota, this work to transform Minnesota's public health system is jointly led by the Local Public Health Association of Minnesota (LPHA), the State Community Health Services Advisory Committee (SCHSAC), and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH).
What does it mean to transform Minnesota's public health system?
- A framework of foundational responsibilities defines what needs to be in place everywhere for Minnesota's public health system to work anywhere.
- A Joint Leadership Team serves as stewards guiding transformation of Minnesota's public health system, made up of members from local public health, locally-elected officials, and state public health.
- Locally-led innovation projects, supported by the Minnesota Infrastructure Fund, develop novel, creative approaches to improving the public health system by fulfilling foundational public health responsibilities, while challenging the status quo.
- Governance groups and communities of practice provide a venue for local, state, and Tribal public health staff, and locally-elected officials, to work together and learn from each other.
- Strengthening Tribal capacity and infrastructure happens in parallel, as Tribal public health systems across Minnesota work to assess and strengthen their infrastructure and capacity, in their authority as sovereign entities.