PHIG Success Stories
See firsthand stories of impact from the Public Health Infrastructure Grant. From small wins to transformative changes, these PHIG Success Stories give us a glimpse into how PHIG fosters widespread innovation in public health systems and structures.
Maryland Department of Health's Reaccreditation journey offers practical insights for other health departments, especially those navigating Reaccreditation after periods of change or disruption.
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On the PHIG Impact Report, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, the state health commissioner for the Indiana Department of Health, discusses the impact PHIG funding has on her state health department.
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Columbus Public Health used PHIG to transform its environmental health division, resulting in improved community safety, boosted staff retention, and a stronger, more adaptable workforce.
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PHIG funding helped the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) take its cloud-based data infrastructure further. A formal data-sharing agreement between IDPH and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services is improving insights into Medicaid populations. In response to the heatwave, IDPH developed a dashboard that combines temperature data, heat indices, and predictive analytics on heat-related cases to support public health teams in effectively monitoring and responding to heat wave risks. With new cloud capabilities, IDPH also launched a Measles Outbreak Dashboard using machine learning to help anticipate and monitor potential outbreak patterns in real time for Illinois schools. By improving how data is shared and applied, IDPH is helping ensure better health outcomes for communities throughout Illinois.
With support from PHIG, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) migrated its Master Person Index to the Snowflake cloud platform, improving record-matching speed by up to eight times and enabling the processing of 2 million records daily. This upgrade gives staff a comprehensive view of individual patients by linking diverse data sources such as hospital discharge records, vital statistics, immunization data, and more. It also lays the groundwork for critical data integration, including efforts to connect public health data with Medicaid data and Prescription Monitoring Program data. Through these advancements, IDPH is strengthening its data infrastructure to deliver more responsive, data-driven public health services.
On the PHIG Impact Report, Dr. Brooke Cunningham, commissioner of health for the Minnesota Department of Health, discusses how her department is using PHIG.
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