# Presentation: 508075

## National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH)Medical Reserve CorpsLeadership Workshop

**Ronald C. Burger**
**President-Elect**
**National Association of Local Boards of Health**

## National Association of Local Boards of HealthMission:

***“******Our mission is to strengthen local boards of health, enabling them to promote and protect the health of their communities through ******education, technical assistance and advocacy******.”***

## About NALBOH 

**Formed in 1992**
**Current program areas:  **
**Board of Health Education & Training**
**Emergency Preparedness**
**Environmental Health**
**Tobacco Use Prevention & Control**
**Workforce Development**

## Strength in numbers

**Approximately 20,000 local board of health members nationwide**
**Over 3,200 local boards of health in the US**
**The major functions of local boards of health include:**
**Advisory**
**Policy-making**
**Governing**

## Core Governance Responsibilities of Local Boards of Health

**Assure authority****: fully understand legal authority, obligations and responsibilities (personal & official) **
**Assure resources****: assure the availability of adequate resources (including legal, financial, personnel, capital, equipment, and supplies) to perform essential public health services **
**Develop policies****: develop policies to support public health activities and goals**

## Core Governance Responsibilities of Local Boards of Health

**4.  ****Assure collaboration****: routinely evaluate, monitor and set goals for improving community health status**
**5.****  Assure continuous evaluation and improvement****: assure collaboration of all relevant stakeholders participate in achieving public health objectives**
**6.****  Liaison between community and health department****: ****trustees for the citizens**

## NALBOH Provides Members...

**A voice in emerging national public health policy formulation**
**Education and training during NALBOH’s Annual Conference: July 28-31 Denver**
**Access to programs and materials specifically designed for local board of health members **

## NALBOH Provides Members...

**Training and educational materials**
**Information  about  public health issues, programs, and funding opportunities **
**Networking and communication opportunities with their peers**
**NALBOH-sponsored grants and discounts **

## State Associations of Local Boards of Health (SALBOH)

**Georgia**
**Idaho**
**Illinois**
**Massachusetts**
**Michigan**

**Nebraska**
**New Jersey**
**North Carolina**
**Ohio**
**Utah**
**Wisconsin**

**Currently, there are 11 active State Associations of Local Boards of Health**

## Partners & Collaborations

**NALBOH’s national partners and collaborative efforts have included:**
**Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)**
**National Association of County City & Health Officials (NACCHO)**
**Association for State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO)**
**Association for Schools of Public Health (ASPH)**
**Public Health Foundation (PHF)**
**National Network of Public Health Institutes**
**Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Turning Point Program**
**American Legacy Foundation**
**American for Non-Smoker’s Rights**

##  Video Materials

**Assurance, Policy Development, and Assessment:  The Role of the Local Board of Health**
**Local Responsibilities Related to National Environmental Health Priorities (Dr. Richard Jackson, 5th Annual Ned E. Baker Lecturer)**
**Communicating Under Fire: Focus on Public Health Situations (Dr. Vincent Covello, 4th Annual Ned E. Baker Lecturer)**
**The Changing Roles of Local Boards of Health: From Service Provision to Assurance (Dr. Susan Scrimshaw, 3rd Annual Ned E. Baker Lecturer)**
**Multiple Partnerships: Endless Opportunities (Dr. William Keck, 1st Annual Ned E. Baker Lecturer)**
**On-Site Waste Management Video (soon)**
**Food Safety Inspection Video (soon)**

## Print & Online Materials

**Clean Indoor Air Action Plans**
**Legal Authority for Tobacco Control in the ****U.S.**
**Local Board of Health Environmental Health Primer**
**National Public Health Performance Standards Governance Instrument**
**Public Health Over Time**
**Public Health on the Web -www.nalboh.org/webhealth/index.htm**

## NALBOH’sAnnual Events

**Ned E. Baker Lecture Series (annually in April during Public Health Week)**
**Annual Conference (July Denver)**
**Showcasing a session during the 2004 Annual Conference on partnerships between the Medical Reserve Corps and Local Boards of Health**

## What is the role of Local Boards of Health in Emergency Preparedness?

**Awareness =  ACTION**
**Assessment**
**Policy Making**
**Assurance**
**Essential PH Services**
**Have a plan**
**Surge capacity- Public Health and Medical Reserve Corps/Citizens Corps**
**Test the system: table top, drill, functional, field**
**Support the staff**

## Ten Essential Public Health Services: Need for MRC

**ASSESSMENT ELEMENTS**
** ****1. Monitoring community health status and needs to identify and solve community health problems**
**3. Informing, educating and empowering people about health issues**

## Ten Essential Public Health Services: Need for MRC

**POLICY DEVELOPMENT ELEMENTS**
**4. Mobilizing community partnership and advocacy and acting to solve health problems**
**5. Developing policies and plans that support individual and community efforts to address priority health needs**

## Ten Essential Public Health Services: Need for MRC

**ASSURANCE ELEMENTS**
**7.a. Linking people to needed personal health services**
**7.b. Assuring the provision of health care when otherwise not available**
**8. Assuring a competent workforce - public health and personal care**
**10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems**

## All Emergencies Are Local

**“****First Responders: may (will be) your next door neighbors”**

## Citizens Emergency Response Team 

Medical Reserve Corps 

**Medical Reserve Corps**** **

## National Association of Local Boards of Health Contacts

_**NATIONAL OFFICE**_
**1840 East Gypsy Lane Road**
**Bowling Green, OH  43402**
**Ph:  419-353-7714**
**Fax:  419-352-6278**
**Email:  nalboh@nalboh.org**
**Website:  www.nalboh.org**

_**WASHINGTON DC OFFICE**_
**1350 Connecticut Ave., NW**
**Suite 850**
**Washington, DC 20036**
**Ph:  202-223-4034**
**Fax:  202-223-4035**
**Email: tiffany@nalboh.org**