The purpose of this project is to successfully strengthen public health systems and services in Indian Country includes activities that aim to expand disease intervention capacity with tribal communities, encourage linkage to care such prevention, treatment and other relevant services as needed, increase community engagement through education and outreach, and respond to outbreak.
This project’s approach will implement the following two strategies: 1) Implement foundation public health capabilities to strengthen the ability to conduct assessment/surveillance, prepare for and respond to public health emergencies; develop and support policies, communications, community partnerships, organizational competencies, and accountability and performance management and 2) Implementing public health programs and services to strengthen the ability to comprehensively meet tribal public health needs. By utilizing these strategies, we will be able to focus on supporting and building front-line tribal public health workforce capacity for disease intervention and implement activities to appropriately respond to outbreak.
Objective 1) Enhance tribal workforce efforts in Indian Country, including training on topics such as disease intervention, disease investigation, linkage to care, case management and oversight, outbreak response, improving health equity, cultural competence, informatics and data management.
Objective 2) Build tribal capacity for disease investigation and contact tracing using a syndemic approach to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies and outbreaks.
Objective 3) Facilitate the use of at least one community-based, culturally adapted evidence-based and informed intervention, including health education and health promotion programs, that promotes health and prevents disease by the end of year one.
Objective 4) Contribute to an effective system that enables equitable access to individual services and care needed to be healthy and prevent and control syphilis and other STIs in tribal communities within the first 6 months of this project.
Some major activities contributing to the success of this project includes:
