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Deborah Erickson
The Turning Point Initiative is an initiative for which the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) and W.K. Kellogg foundations partnered in order to fund a group of states and a number of communities within each of those states to work through a planning process to look at ways to strengthen their public health systems at the state and local levels. Out of that process, the states and communities would come together at the national level to talk about what they had been learning and what the issues were. There were a number of issues that resonated with all of the states. As part of a second phase of the Turning Point Initiative, RWJ funded what they termed "National Excellence Collaboratives," five workgroups which were formed to address the five issues that they thought were the most significant that needed to be addressed (e.g., the modernization of public health law, performance management and public health, information management in public health, promoting social marketing techniques in public health, and leadership development in public health).
The Public Health Statute Modernization National Collaborative is a partnership of representatives from five... |
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