Ohio Public Health PBRN

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Overview

The Ohio Practice Based Research Network (PBRN) includes a diverse group of local health departments in nine counties that are affiliated with the state’s academic public health programs, along with the Ohio Department of Health and Case Western Reserve University’s public health program and Prevention Research Center. The network’s initial research will evaluate the use of public health informatics methodologies within local health departments and evaluate the effects of these methodologies on community health assessment, surveillance, and service delivery activities conducted by local health departments.

Our Research

• Prevention, Investigation, and Intervention Related to Foodborne Illness in Ohio
• Variation in Local Enforcement of State Public Health Policy
• Analyzing Concordance Between Position Descriptions and Practice Standards for Public Health Nurses
• The Cost of Doing Business: Developing a Cost Model for the Minimum Local Public Health Services Package in Ohio
• Consolidation in Ohio Public Health: Differences in Expenditures
• Community Health Improvement Planning and Community Health Needs Assessment: Moving toward Collaborative Assessment and Community Health Action in Ohio
• Direct Observation Methods in Local Public Health Settings: Foodborne Outbreak Practices in Ohio
• The Cost of Public Health Practice: Using PBRNs to Idenify Delivery, Quality and Cost of Core Public Health Services in Ohio

Collaborators

• The Ohio State University College of Public Health
• University of Cincinnati
• Wright State University
• University of Toledo
• Kent State University
• Consortium of Eastern Ohio MPH
• Case Western Reserve University