Updated: Designing a Learning Health Organization for Collective Impact using REACH
How the “Flu Blacklist” Explains Why the 2013-2014 Flu Season is Deadly
Sugar MADNESS: How metabolic syndrome drives obesity and what you can do about it
Population Health Improvement & Performance Accountability
Applied Epidemiology Using R / RStudio, Fall 2013
Weight loss using Results-Based Accountability
Leadership is getting Results in a way that inspires Trust
Authentic Transformational Leadership
Concepts for Preventing Infectious Diseases — An Update
The San Francisco DPH is getting a PHD!
San Francisco plastic bag ban associated with 46% increase in foodborne illness deaths — Not!
Strategic Project Management Made SimpleComplexity sciences »
Free Software for Designing Influence (Causal Loop) Diagrams (0)
In my public health work I draw causal loop (influence) diagrams to illustrate important, usually causal, relationships. I have discovered an amazing, freely available, multi-platform software program. The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital… Read More ›
Decision sciences »
Deriving Criteria Weights for Health Decision Making: A Brief Tutorial (0)
When it matters most, to make decisions, set priorities, or allocate resources we must rank and select among available options (“alternatives”). To accomplish this we develop and weight criteria, and then evaluate the alternatives against these criteria. More important criteria should have higher weights. For important decisions we should use science-based, objective measurements and methods to derive criteria weights. In this… Read More ›
Health & medical ethics »
Health care workers have ethical responsibility to protect their patients from preventable infectious diseases (0)
California Senate Bill 1318 (Lois Wolk) will require health care workers that do not get vaccinated against influenza to wear a face mask during influenza season. Here is my letter that was read to the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on 4/26/2012 by the Health Officers’ Association of California (HOAC): Members of the Senate… Read More ›
Health leadership »
Updated: Designing a Learning Health Organization for Collective Impact using REACH (0)
The Population Health Division of the San Francisco Department of Public Health has undergone an extensive reorganization. Our goal is to become a continuously improving, high performing health organization that is community-centered, agile, adaptive, and responsive; that is, a learning health organization. We are deploying an integrated continuous improvement approach we call REACH: REACH is Results,… Read More ›
Healthy eating & active living »
Sugar MADNESS: How metabolic syndrome drives obesity and what you can do about it (1)
Sugar consumption, especially from sugary drinks, is the single largest and preventable contributor to the global epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, bad cholesterol, and unhealthy weight gain. Fructose is the part of “sugar” that is the culprit. Fructose in liquid form is worse! Fructose is metabolized by the liver. With repeated exposures,… Read More ›
Health management »
Strategic Project Management Made Simple (6)
Updated templates LogFrame template as MS Word Document (exported from LibreOffice) LogFrame guidelines as PDF Document (exported from LibreOffice) LogFrame template for group facilitation MS Word Document (exported from LibreOffice) Introduction “Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams” (SPMMS) by Terry Schmidt is a book I highly recommend if you are juggling… Read More ›
Infectious diseases »
How the “Flu Blacklist” Explains Why the 2013-2014 Flu Season is Deadly (0)
In my professional role, I am interviewed by the media to explain why this flu season is so “deadly.” I have a more mathematical explanation at the bottom of the page (which is challenging to simplify). However, Rob Roth from KTVU Channel 2 interviewed me and suggested the term “susceptible list” to describe the people who… Read More ›
Public health practice »
The San Francisco DPH is getting a PHD! (0)
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), Division of Population Health and Prevention (PHP) (also known as the “public health division”) has been reorganized into the new Population Health Division (PHD). (DOWNLOAD Full Annoucement [PDF]) The SFDPH mission is “To protect and promote the health of all San Franciscans.” Our new PHD vision is “To… Read More ›
R computing »
Applied Epidemiology Using R / RStudio, Fall 2013 (0)
The fall course I teach — PH251D: Applied Epidemiology Using R & Studio – starts Monday, September 9 , 2013 (4pm-6pm) in 2030 Valley Life Science Building (LSB) at University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. PH251D is an intensive one-semester introduction to the R programming language for applied epidemiology. R is a freely available, multi-platform (Linux, Mac… Read More ›
