Center Director: Frank I. Moore, Ph.D.
Mission
CTPHS’s mission is to improve the health of South Texas. One of the keys ways for this to happen is to assure Community Engagement in the process. This means engaging:
- Health Care Service Consumers
- Health Care Organizations (ADA, AHA, Alzheimer’s Association, etc.)
- Community Health Care Providers (Institutions and Practitioners)
- Health Care Organizations Monitoring Health and Health Outcomes (Bexar County Health Collaborative and Metro Health
Objectives
- Develop proposals for and conduct translational research related to public health services;
- Develop community infrastructure to enable working partnerships with academic based researchers to identify research priorities, formulate strategies for investigation, and design of research protocols;
- Partner with community organizations, Academic Health Centers, other universities and practice based organizations to create community capacity to support and sustain social movements to promote healthy public policy;
- Investigate the role of leadership and leadership development in public health organization and
system performance;
- Formulate and disseminate “best practices” in public health system operations;
- Improve public health preparedness, practices and performance related to public health
emergency response using facilitated development of a web-based, interactive work group
resource or knowledge network;
- Study the processes of learning, diffusion and adaptation in connection with improving
emergency preparedness and other public health functions and essential services;
- Formulate transdisciplinary approaches to the study of health disparities;
- Design a model “community of practice” for the investigation of health disparities;
- Prepare a policy issue brief on financing for public health workforce development in Texas.
