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 Simple
CHCF Leadership Seminar #1
A Healthier San Francisco through Alignment – Connections – Equity
Applied Epidemiology Using R, Fall 2012
Free Software for Designing Influence (Causal Loop) Diagrams
Deriving Criteria Weights for Health Decision Making: A Brief Tutorial
Health care workers have ethical responsibility to protect their patients from preventable infectious diseases
Project Management for Health Professionals
Thoughts on Health Leadership
Preparing manuscripts for publication: A mini-reviewAcademics »
Preparing manuscripts for publication: A mini-review (0)
Introduction A health professions career that includes inquiry, innovation, or discovery often includes the preparation of manuscripts for peer-review publication. Research findings should be communicated broadly. The most enduring way for our work to have an impact is through publication. Unfortunately, the onus of preparing manuscripts can discourage even the brightest investigators from publishing more… Read More ›
Complexity 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 »
CHCF Leadership Seminar #1 (4)
I recently returned from my first 3.5 day seminar with the UCSF California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) Leadership Program. This a two year fellowship and we are the 12th cohort. There are ~30 fellows from all fields of health throughout California. I heard nothing but positive news about this fellowship, so I was excited to be… Read More ›
Health management »
Strategic Project Management Made Simple (5)
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 many projects and feel like you or your team(s) may be losing strategic focus. SPMMS unifies strategic planning, logic models, and project management! It is based on the Logical Framework… Read More ›
Infectious diseases »
San Francisco plastic bag ban associated with 46% increase in foodborne illness deaths — Not! (0)
This was originally published on The Berkeley Blog on 02/13/13. In my role as Health Officer of San Francisco I received a flurry of concerned calls about a research study that claimed that the 2007 San Francisco ban on plastic bag resulted in an immediate, very large increase in foodborne illnesses and deaths. From their… Read More ›
Open source software »
Applied Epidemiology Using R, Fall 2012 (0)
The fall course I teach — PH251D: Applied Epidemiology Using R — starts Monday, August 27, 2012 in 214 Haviland Hall 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 OS, Windows, etc.), versatile,… 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 »
Interactive R program for kids to drill arithmetic (3)
Several years ago I wrote an interactive R program so that my kids could drill addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. I found the code tonight while searching for another file. Here it is: Download PDF file with R code: http://medepi.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/math.pdf Follow the instructions. Better yet, edit the code and customize the experience. Even better, study the… Read More ›
