Partnering for Success in One Ohio County – JPHMP Direct

COVID-19 uncovered current well being inequities and generated momentum amongst varied stakeholders round guaranteeing equitable entry to assets and providers aimed toward mitigating pandemic harms. Learn our new article within the Journal of Public Well being Administration and Apply, Addressing Well being Fairness Targets for COVID-19 Vaccination Utilizing Built-in Knowledge and Mapping Instruments: A Collaboration Between Academia, Public Well being, and Well being Care Techniques in Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.

Regardless of the unprecedented threats and challenges posed by the pandemic, this public well being emergency supplied a chance for the adoption of novel approaches, programs, and processes for advancing public well being apply. With mounting proof of the disproportionate affect of the pandemic on communities of alternative, in early 2021 when the phased method of vaccine rollout was initiated, public well being leaders and stakeholders within the Metropolis of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio convened to find out how to make sure that all eligible residents of their jurisdictions got ample alternative to make an knowledgeable determination on and entry COVID-19 vaccination.

Drawback: Throughout the early section of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, efforts to make sure fairness in vaccine distribution had been threatened by a restricted provide of COVID-19 vaccines, the shortage of vaccine suppliers, and the resultant problem in securing vaccine appointments. Vaccine rollout was taking place by means of a phased method, with precedence teams recognized largely by age and — within the case of frontline staff — occupation.  There have been main issues concerning the hole in vaccine uptake between teams categorized as having a excessive social vulnerability and teams categorized as having a low social vulnerability.

Public well being leaders requested: How can we make sure that when the COVID-19 vaccine provide is available, approaches utilized to make sure fairness in distribution and uptake are data-enabled, resilient, and adaptive?

Our Resolution: A partnership between public well being, healthcare, and academia led to the speedy growth, implementation, and steady enchancment of a data-enabled method for communication, engagement, and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. We used the Fairness Mapping Instrument to trace and seize vulnerability in its broadest phrases and knowledgeable a number of methods in our respective sectors and jurisdictions for reaching residents and weak teams all through the neighborhood.

What did we do?

We developed built-in instruments, workflows, and processes to assist get rid of knowledge silos amongst stakeholders who usually don’t share well timed and granular knowledge, and construct capability data-enabled determination making throughout public well being crises — each the present pandemic and others to return. We used the Engagement, Analytics, and Translation framework, which was developed by our tutorial associate (Ayaz Hyder within the Computational Epidemiology Lab), and utilized it to COVID-19 vaccination efforts. 

What was the affect?

Franklin County Public Well being used the Fairness Mapping Instrument to trace the hole in vaccination uptake amongst neighborhoods with excessive and low social vulnerability to determine essentially the most weak communities and perceive the social determinants of well being with the best affect on these residents. 

Columbus Public Well being used the Fairness Mapping Instrument to determine and activate areas for 122 distinctive cellular vaccine clinics, present entry to a curated checklist of present and deliberate pop-up/cellular websites, and develop real-time monitoring and analysis dashboard for the Vax-Money program, an incentivized vaccination initiative, which improved the racial disparity hole in Columbus’ neighborhoods with the best SVI and serving new American populations who historically lack entry to healthcare providers. 

OhioHealth, which is a not-for-profit healthcare system in Central Ohio, used the software to determine new clinic areas and focused their cellular well being enterprise—Wellness on Wheels—to particular neighborhoods to shut the racial hole in vaccination uptake. 

Wanting forward

At the moment, the Fairness Mapping Instrument is a part of a Neighborhood Well being Staff for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) grant to the Ohio Division of Well being and companions as a Element C – Demonstration Mission. By means of this funding, the Fairness Mapping Instrument is being scaled up and expanded to over 76 counties in Ohio in partnership with regional neighborhood well being networks and their public well being, healthcare system, and social service companions. As a part of this demonstration venture, we’re making use of the teachings realized by means of the preliminary work that began in Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.

Learn our new article within the Journal of Public Well being Administration and Apply:

Associated articles:

1. Hyder A, Trinh A, Padmanabhan P, Marschhausen J, Wu A, Evans A, Iyer R, Jones A. COVID-19 Surveillance for Native Resolution Making : An Tutorial, College District, and Public Well being Collaboration. Public Well being Rep. 2021 Jul-Aug;136(4):403-412. doi: 10.1177/00333549211018203. Epub 2021 Could 12. PMID: 33979558; PMCID: PMC8203033.

Ayaz Hyder, PhD, is an Assistant Professor within the School of Public Well being at The Ohio State College. He’s a computational epidemiologist who works to translate knowledge analytics instruments and computational fashions into public well being apply. Be taught extra about his present areas of focus at www.thehyderlab.com.

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Cheryl Graffagnino MS, RD, LD, is a Program Officer with the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, supporting growth and implementation of the Foundations’ grantmaking technique. Beforehand, she served as a Program Supervisor at Columbus Public Well being with a concentrate on meals entry and supported vaccine fairness outreach in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alexandria (Alex) Jones, MS, RN, CPH, is Assistant Well being Commissioner and Director of Prevention and Wellness at Franklin County Public Well being. Ms. Jones serves in statewide and native management positions. She earned a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Nursing, Public Well being Nursing Administration specialty from the Ohio State College.

Nana Baryeh, PhD, is a Knowledge Crew Lead with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC). She has 10+ years of expertise working with tutorial, nonprofit, authorities, and healthcare programs gathering and analyzing epidemiological knowledge for well being promotion. Beforehand, she served as an epidemiologist with Resolve to Save Lives.

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Gold-Marie Wontumi is a public well being skilled, medical physician, and recipient of a Invoice and Melinda Gates Scholarship with an MPH from Johns Hopkins College. She has 15+ years of expertise within the US and Ghana and has labored extensively on understanding the dynamics and drivers of well being providers utilization, healthcare entry, well being disparities, and well being fairness, and collaborated with stakeholders on figuring out and implementing options to handle gaps. Her expertise spans maternal, youngster, and reproductive well being, COVID-19, and different infectious illnesses.

Rebecca Barbeau is a healthcare chief, keen about connecting people, households, and communities, with concentrate on bettering lives. She presently serves because the Operations Director for OhioHealth Neighborhood Well being Partnerships, a regional hospital system in Columbus, Ohio, serving 47 of 88 Ohio counties. She leads OhioHealth’s medical neighborhood outreach applications.

Autumn R. Glover, MCRP, MPA, is an achieved and passionate chief within the areas of neighborhood engagement, well being fairness, and concrete planning. As Senior Director for Neighborhood Well being Partnerships she supplies govt management for OhioHealth signature neighborhood well being applications, together with Wellness on Wheels (WOW) a cellular well being enterprise offering entry to care, together with COVID-19 vaccinations.

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