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Public Health Informatics, Data, Equity, Analytics, and Systems (PH-IDEAS) approach to strengthen Shelby County Health Department Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems: a conceptual paper

Michelle Taylor, MD, DrPH, MPH1, Niharika Jha, Ph.D. (student), MPH 2, Stella T. Lartey, Ph.D., MPH2, Polina Durneva, Ph.D., MIS3, Stella Dockery, MPM2, Xianqiang Fu, MSc2, Nichole Saulsberry-Scarboro, PhD 2, Ashish Joshi, PhD., MBBS, MPH 2.

Affiliation

  1. Shelby County Health Department, Memphis, TN
  2. University of Memphis, School of Public Health, Memphis, TN
  3. University of Memphis, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, Memphis, TN

APHA session choices

  1. Community Based Public Health Caucus

ABSTRACT

Introduction: In Shelby County Health Department (SCHD), there was a 42% vacancy rate indicating a serious problem with workforce recruitment and retention. Additionally, there is inadequate workforce expertise in data modernization fields such as informatics and data visualization.

Objectives: To address these needs, three primary strategies: workforce development, foundational capabilities, and data modernization have been employed by the University of Memphis School of Public Health to develop the innovative “Public Health Informatics, Data, Equity, Analytics, and Systems (PH-IDEAS)” approach to address the needs of SCHD. To facilitate data-driven and community-enabled decision-making, this project will adopt a Sustainable Multisector Accessible Affordable Reimbursable and Tailored (SMAART) model.

Methods: The first strategy's goal is to provide how the SCHD intends to satisfy the demands for a local public health workforce by attracting, educating, and maintaining a diverse and highly skilled group of people who are representatives of the areas they serve in. To better meet the requirements of this varied population in a strategic, efficient, and fair way, strategy two aims to fortify the SCDH's core competencies. By creating, developing, and delivering interoperable health information systems, strategy three aims to significantly enhance the data collection, integration, sharing, and visualization.

Conclusion: Through the three primary strategies: workforce development, foundational capabilities, and data modernization, the proposed PH-IDEAS conceptual framework will address the issues of health inequities through the lens of human-centered design approach combined with principles of learning, behavioral, and humanistic theories, as well as information processing theory.