Louisiana Public Health Institute

The Louisiana campaign for tobacco-free living (tfl)purpose: to implement and evaluate comprehensive tobacco control initiatives that prevent and reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. Tfl's goals are to: 1) eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke; 2) prevent initiation of tobacco use among youth; 3) promote tobacco cessation among youth and adults; 4) identify and eliminate tobacco-related disparities; and 5) facilitate effective coordination of all tobacco control and prevention initiatives throughout the state of Louisiana.

Pcori: crn infrastructure 3.0purpose: to enable the conduct of multi-site research across the national patient centered clinical research network (pocrnet) with enhanced efficiency in real world healthcare delivery systems.

Pcori: achd rare disease:purpose:study that uses pcornet to examine the effects of gaps in recommended care on patient-prioritized outcomes for adults with non-complex and complex subtypes of congenital heart disease (chd). By enrolling patients and linking their pcornet data into an existing adult congenital heart disease (achd) specific registry, future interventions to reduce gaps in care based on study findings can be rapidly implemented in real-world settings through the strong partnerships established with key chd stakeholders.

Cms: ldh: cea orchestrator modelpurpose: ldh will engage lphi and the Louisiana Health care quality forum (lhcqf), to design, develop, and implement anorchestrated statewide Health information exchange (statewide hie) by connecting the various hies into one statewide entity. Through design, development, and implementation (ddi) of the statewide hie, the state will utilize data and functionality of existing hies utilized by medicaid providers across the state systems through a coordinated and centralized network.

Oph: state tobacco control programpurpose: to implement and evaluate comprehensive tobacco control initiatives that prevent and reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. Lphi's role is to: 1) develop and manage media/marking campaigns in support of tcp and the coordinated chronic disease and community transformation grants; 2) support quitline operations and cessation; and 3) conduct the youth tobacco survey.

Oph: chronic disease prevention & Health promotionpurpose: state of lousiana tobacco control program professional service contracts to provide for media/marketing and quitline services around smoking prevention and cessation

Oph: children and youth special healthcare needspurpose: works to ensure that children and youth with special Health care needs (cyshcn) in Louisiana have access to services are designed to minimize their disabilities and maximize their ability to live as independently as possible.

Wk kellogg foundation: vaccine equity & pregnancy registrypurpose:lphi engages communities in new orleans in conducting vaccine outreach among residents most vulnerable to covid-19 and create a perinatal birth registry to track outcomes in maternal and child Health in new orleans

Rwjf: reducing inequities in tobaccopurpose: project asirt (addressing systemic inequities to reduce tobacco-use)prioritizes equity in all policies, programs, and practices to build the capacity of Louisiana's socioeconomically disadvantaged, rural communities to reduce tobacco use among african americans, recognize and address tobacco-related inequities, and influence policy change at the local and state level.

National council: delta centerpurpose: the delta center for a thriving safety net (delta center) is a national initiative supported by the robert wood johnson foundation (rwjf) that brings together primary care associations (pcas) and behavioral Health state associations (bhsas) to advance policy, payment, and practice changes that will benefit the millions of people served by Health centers and community behavioral Health organizations (cbhos). The ultimate goal of the delta center is to cultivate Health policy and a care system that is more equitable and better meets the needs of individuals and families.

Packard: adolescent/reproductive Health mapping - phase iipurpose: to address the high rate of sexually transmitted infections in Louisiana by mapping strengths and weaknesses of schools, cbos and Health systems in order to provide reproductive Health advocates with tools to understand key systems assets, barriers or gaps, and opportunities to move forward in planning and implementing larger programmatic solutions that address adolescent reproductive Health.

Information services special projects

Oph: id: seetpurpose: lphi provides staffing and related operational activities for ldh oph bureau of infectious diseases and bureau of regional and clinical operations to: 1) monitor, investigate, quantify, describe, and decrease risk and negative Health outcomes related to infectious diseases and exposure to environmental risks among Louisiana citizens. 2) collect, manage, analyze, and synthesize Health data for the purposes of monitoring reportable infectious diseases and exposures to environmental risks, implementing timely and effective prevention and control measures, and informing community education approaches and policy development. 3) coordinate and provide training related to the prevention and control of infectious diseases and exposure to environmental risks for Public Health staff and external healthcare providers. 4) improve operational processes and data analysis throughout the regional oph offices managed through the bureau of regional and clinical operations (brco), supporting quality delivery of clinical and population-health services through the oph parish Health unit (phu) network.

Oph: space: child healthpurpose: lphi provides staffing and related operational activities for ldh to 1) monitor, investigate, research, quantify, describe, and decrease risk and protective factors and Health outcomes among the maternal, child, adolescent, teen, and family populations and their communities.2) coordinate, provide training, and evaluate new approaches to expand Health and supportive services and prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of the projects, with a particular focus on communities with highest need.

Nih: weill cornell medicine: recoverpurpose: lphi provides clinical and data expertise to the recover team throughout the project. Lphi will partipate in study meetings, as well as contribute to analytic plans and manuscripts.

Oph: dat: comprehensive suicide preventionpurpose: lphi provides staffing and related operational activities for ldh to: 1) monitor, investigate, research, quantify, describe, and decrease risk and protective factors and Health outcomes among the maternal, child, adolescent, teen, and family populations and their communities;2) collect, manage, analyze, and synthesize Health service and related prevention program data for the purposes of monitoring program implementation, improving the quality and utilization services, informing community education approaches, and to inform policy development.

Pcori: ucsf: covid-19 citizens sciencepurpose: covid citizen science enrolls a diverse sample of patients from approximately 10 geographically and politically diverse states. Data links clinical, patient reported, and local policy responses with the goal of understanding how covid mitigation policies affect patients' physical and mental Health and economic wellbeing

Oph: id: bureau of regional and clinical opspurpose: brco supports 9 regional Public Health offices and 62 Public Health units (phu) statewide to develop and deliver preventive clinical services and population Health activities. Furthermore, brco collaborates with other bureaus and programs across oph and ldh to analyze data, generate insights, design, monitor, and continually improve processes to support population based Health services.

Oph: child healthpurpose: the maternal and child Health (mch) services block grant to states program is a formula grant provided to states through federal allocation. It was established by title v of the social security act of 1935. To receive funds, states must submit an application and report annually.

Oph: pramspurpose: a surveillance project of the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) and state Health departments. Developed in 1987, prams collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. Prams surveillance.

Nas_rwjf_gulf research programpurpose: supports community-based participatory research (cbpr) to investigate the role that social determinants of Health (sdoh) data could play in improving the capability of Public Health data systems to better understand and address Health disparities in at-risk communities.

Evaluation special projectspurpose: to provide wide-ranging evaluation services to third parties, including Health needs assessments, rapid cycle evaluations, serving as the external evaluator on funded projects, and other various evaluation services to meet customer requirements.

Cdc: tulane: next d-3purpose: lead-zdc is a prospective observational study to assess the effectiveness of zero dollar copayment for select common diabetes medications on patients' medication adherence, blood glucose (a1c) control, diabetes complications, and healthcare utilization.

Oph-dat: miechv traditionalpurpose: lphi provides staffing and related operational activities for ldh to: (1) strengthen and improve the programs and activities carried out under title v of the social security act; (2) improve coordination of services for at-risk communities; and (3) identify and provide comprehensive services to improve outcomes for eligible families who reside in at-risk communities.

Ldh: covid-19 equity evaluationpurpose: serve as the external evaluator for the funding recipient of national initiative to address covid-19 Health disparities among populations at high-risk and underserved, including racial and ethnic minority populations and rural communities.

Oph: nvdrspurpose: a state-based surveillance system that links data from law enforcement, coroners and medical examiners, vital statistics, and crime laboratories to assist each participating state in designing and implementing tailored prevention and intervention efforts. Nvdrs provides data on violence trends at national and regional levels; each state can access all of these important data elements from one central database.

Racial justice & Health equity training servicespurpose: program that implements a series of training opportunities to recognize and address structural racism as a social determinant of Health, with persistent racial disparities in financial security, criminal justice, housing, education, Health care, employment, worker protections, climate, food access, and technology

Oph: overdose to actionpurpose: the cdc overdose data to action (od2a) program supports states in collecting high quality, comprehensive, and timely data on nonfatal and fatal overdoses and in utilizing those data to inform, implement, and evaluate prevention and response efforts.

Cdc: phii: covid-19purpose: "the covid-19 electronic healthcare data initiative project will demonstrate pcornet sites abilityto collect information on covid data through the implementation of a nationally distributed datainfrastructure. The collection of these covid-19 data will help to answer critical questions to assist in the emergency response to the covid-19 pandemic. Phii proposes to commence this project by establishing a working group with representatives from participating Health departments, pcornet sites, pcornet coordinating centers, cdc other partners. This project will leverage the established data infrastructure from pcornet to support querying of covid-19 related conditions."

Maternal and child Health programpurpose: the mission of la oph's mch bureau is to provide leadership, in partnership with key stakeholders, to improve the physical and mental Health, safety and well-being of the maternal and child Health population which includes women, infants, children, adolescents, and their families, including fathers and children with special Health care needs. Lphi hires and employs staff on behalf of laoph to carry out the mission of the mch bureau.

Cdc: nacdd: mendsprogram for improving chronic disease surveillance and management through the use of electronic Health records

Oph: erase maternal morbidity & mortalitypurpose: Louisiana pregnancy associated mortality review (la-pamr) manages and enhances comprehensive review of maternal deaths for identifying prevention opportunities.

Unitedway sela: la prisoner reentry initiativepurpose: provide data, research, performance evaluation services and a community needs assessment for the southeast Louisiana prisoner reentry initiative (la-pri) through in st. tammany and jefferson parish.

Nnphi_cdc_ta-hubpurpose: partnering with nnphi to serve as the regional technical assistance (ta) hub, providing training and ta to infrastructure grant recipients, providing training and ta to infrastructure grant recipients,

Oph: id: infectious disease epidemiologypurpose: lphi provides staffing and related operational activities for ldh oph bureau of infectious diseases and bureau of regional and clinical operations to: 1) monitor, investigate, quantify, describe, and decrease risk and negative Health outcomes related to infectious diseases and exposure to environmental risks among Louisiana citizens. 2) collect, manage, analyze, and synthesize Health data for the purposes of monitoring reportable infectious diseases and exposures to environmental risks, implementing timely and effective prevention and control measures, and informing community education approaches and policy development. 3) coordinate and provide training related to the prevention and control of infectious diseases and exposure to environmental risks for Public Health staff and external healthcare providers. 4) improve operational processes and data analysis throughout the regional oph offices managed through the bureau of regional and clinical operations (brco), supporting quality delivery of clinical and population-health services through the oph parish Health unit (phu) network.

Lsu: colorectal screening programpurpose: lphi works with the federal qualified Health centers (fqhcs) on behalf of screen up to increase fqhcs capacity to offer colorectal cancer screening services.

Oph: miechvmaternal, infant, early childhood home visiting needs assessment

Oph: dat: maternal death due to violencepurpose: lphi provides staffing and related operational activities for ldh to: 1) monitor, investigate, research, quantify, describe, and decrease risk and protective factors and Health outcomes among the maternal, child, adolescent, teen, and family populations and their communities; 2) collect, manage, analyze, and synthesize Health service and related prevention program data for the purposes of monitoring program implementation, improving the quality and utilization services, informing community education approaches, and to inform policy development.

Reachnet query service contractsto provide query services to researches who wish to leverage the reachnet network and infrastructure in running clinical trials.

Oph: maternitypurpose: the maternal and child Health (mch) services block grant to states program is a formula grant provided to states through federal allocation. It was established by title v of the social security act of 1935. To receive funds, states must submit an application and report annually.

Oph: opioid surveillancepurpose: lead partnerships with multiple agencies in orleans parish to pilot the high-intensity drug trafficking area's overdose detection mapping application program level 1 and level 2 user access to track overdose activity spikes in the parish. Odmap automatic data population will be implemented in new orleans ems, fire department, police department, and Louisiana state police. Lphi will develop and implement an odmap steering committee in orleans parish to serve as a steward for development and implementation of an overdose spike response strategy.

Oph: ssdipurpose: ssdi was launched in 1993 to complement the title v maternal and child Health (mch) block grant program and to combine the efforts of state mch and children with special Health care needs (cshcn) agencies.

University of Wisconsin: baby's first years studypurpose: qualitative research study for the household income and child development in the first three years of life project

Obh: integration of primary & behavioral Health care (lapipbhc)purpose: to promote and facilitate the integration of primary care and behavioral Health services in order to reduce Health disparities among people living with mental illness in Louisiana.

Hurricane ida Public Health workforce relief fundpurpose: nnphi issued footprints foundation $10,000 to be dispersed as stipends to Public Health workers to assist them in recouping unexpected expenses related to lodging, gas, food and other evacuation-related supplies.

Nnphi: covid-19 Health equity tapurpose: providing technical assistance services to the ot21-2103 grant recipients as a part of this project.

Nnphi_covid-19_health equity evaluationspurpose: to utilize the effectiveness and implementation dimensions of the re-aim framework to understand processes and outcomes associated with these practices, as well as other identified participatory methods.

Healthy blue: community of practicepurpose: in partnership with healthy blue, the Louisiana Public Health Institute (lphi) will convene a 15-month virtual community of practice (cop) for community-based and Health care organizations that will help build capacity in st. landry, lafayette and north iberville parishes of Louisiana to recognize maternal Health inequities and to optimize clinical and social linkages to improve care coordination.

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