The Nevada Public Health Institute (NPHI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organized and operated for charitable purposes. The mission of NPHI is to guide and support the leadership of health professionals in Nevada to strengthen the field of public health. NPHI is the only statewide institute in Nevada and has been the primary public health resource for rural Nevada since 2011.
The NPHI staff and board members collectively have over 40 years of implementation and evaluation experience for programs funded at the local, state, federal, and international levels.
Our Vision
Health people, in healthy communities across Nevada
Our Mission
Promote, develop, and advance public health leadership in Nevada
Our Values
Collaboration Community Building
Trust Non-partisanship
Consistency Innovation
Our Action Plan
- Take a leadership role in the practice of public health and policy development in Nevada
- Advance core public health functions in local and state public health jurisdictions in Nevada
- Sustain and further develop NPHI as an innovative and high-performing organization
What We Can Do
- Provide technical assistance to counties, both those that have health authorities and those that do not, to create dashboards of their health issues
- Continue development in rural and frontier counties to create Boards of Health (BOH)
- Provide training and development training for BOHs
- Work with counties to develop health departments or districts
- Discuss and develop agreements with counties regarding cross-jurisdictional sharing initiatives
- Train selected rural county personnel on clinical, environmental, and epidemiologic skills
- Work with counties to develop community health needs assessments and improvement plans
- Develop and deliver training for capacity building assistance for leadership and public health essentials
- Work with the Nevada Association of Local Health Officials (NALHO) to develop training for county personnel and elected leadership
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