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Franklin County Public Health Situational Update
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March 7, 2024
Franklin County Public Health wants to stay connected with our partners in creating informed and healthy communities. This newsletter is here to serve as a tool for you to share resources for your community, schools, and families in your district.
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Immunization
Alexandria (Alex) Jones, Assistant Health Commissioner
COVID-19 vaccinations recommendations have been updated as of February 28, 2024, to recommend adults ages 65 years and older receive an additional updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine dose. This additional dose may be administered 4 months after the last dose. FCPH continues to offer COVID, Flu, and RSV vaccinations. Please reach out to us to schedule an appointment https://myfcph.org/health-wellness/shots/shots-appointment-scheduling-info/ or 614-525-3719
Epidemiology Report Review
Scott Brewer, Infectious Disease Program Epidemiologist
- Epidemiology Reports* are published every other Friday.
- The report has been updated to reflect monthly community levels.
- Review the full epi report* here.
- Please note: all the data shown in the report is only representative of Franklin County Public Health’s jurisdictions which exclude Worthington and the City of Columbus.
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Lisa Dent, Associate Director of Equity and Inclusion |
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Kristin Howard, Director of Communication and Public Affairs |
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Health Literacy Trainings
- Advancing Health Literacy is offering upcoming trainings that are open to the public in February and March. See the flyer here.
- Communication planning is underway for the upcoming eclipse on April 8th. While FCPH is not in the path of totality, we are working with our regional PIO partners to align communication strategies. Additionally, we are working with the Central Ohio Hospital Council and other health care partners to align on and community education around eye safety. Be on the look out for upcoming communication.
- As we move beyond the height of the COVID response, FCPH is taking the time to reintroduce ourself to the public in the form of a media campaign. We want to remind people that we are more than the mask mandate organization of the pandemic. This will be done in a fun and engaging way the reminds everyone of the scores of services that we provide to the public. Marketing items will begin to be out in the world come April 2024 and will continue to be present throughout the year.
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Mike Lopinsky, Community Environmental Health & Radon Gas |
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Abby Boeckman, Director of Epidemiology & Data |
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- On 1/31/2024 the HM2025 Steering Committee met to begin work on HM2025.
- The Steering Committee is made up of representatives across various sectors and communities and bring expertise and key perspectives to the planning portion of our HM2025.
- The group broke apart into various topic areas and spent over an hour discussing the data that was included in HM2022 and brainstorm what might stay, be removed, edited, or added. This feedback is being reviewed and will guide our work to gather and review our most recent community data.
- We will be sure to keep this group updated to the progress of HM2025. In the meantime, we also will have some key updates to our FC CHIP to be published later this month.
- We have been working with the Lead Agencies for each strategy to identify how best to measure and track our progress. These performance measures will be outlined in the update.
- We also coordinated with COHC and CPH to identify outcome measures (or goals) under each strategy to we are all working toward the same improvement of our health needs.
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https://healthworksfranklincounty.org/ [Go to 'Projects and Initiatives]
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https://fcph-data-hub-fca.hub.arcgis.com/ [Go to 'FCPH Programs and Planning]
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Micah Berman, Professor in Health Services Management and Policy, College of Public Health & Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University |
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Diana Briggs, Community Impact VP of American Heart Association |
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