Public Health Informatics Institute

11/20/2025

As the coordinating informatics office for the CHAMPS program, PHII is energized about this partnership.

The CHAMPS Program Office had an energizing and productive visit to the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany, in October. 🇩🇪 Our discussions focused on strengthening this emerging partnership by enhancing institutional alignment, deepening collaboration, and expanding opportunities for student engagement.

We explored exciting new and opportunities, particularly how HPI can leverage CHAMPS data to develop digital tools that improve maternal and child health. We also engaged with researchers, faculty, and students working on diverse CHAMPS-related projects, ranging from antimicrobial resistance ( ) analyses and digital storytelling to AI-enabled maternal health solutions.

Huge thanks to our colleagues at HPI and the Hasso Plattner Foundation for their thoughtful dialogue, strong partnership alignment, and continued commitment to CHAMPS’ mission. We look forward to the future of this collaboration!

11/14/2025

🎤 Catch PHII's Director Vivian Singletary's panel presentation on Public Health Perspectives: Modernizing Informatics Across the Spectrum at Annual Symposium in Atlanta.
📅 Sunday, Nov. 16 at 3:30 p.m.

11/12/2025

Calling all early-career public health professionals and those serving rural public health agencies. Are you planning or implementing an informatics or health IT project? Pre-register for our free 8-week course “Designing and Managing Public Health Informatics Systems: 8 Steps to Success!”
🔹 course launches mid-March 2026
🔹 2-3 hrs/week commitment
🔹 expert-led webinars + self-paced content
Thanks to funding from the CDC, this course is free for staff at STLT agencies or in freely associated states.
👉 Please note pre-registration does not guarantee enrollment. https://phii.org/8-steps/

11/05/2025

Santita Hooper, senior project manager, and Lura Daussat, director of practice support unit, are representing PHII at in Washington, D.C. They’re sharing about PHII’s free online resources and training courses designed to strengthen the public health workforce.

10/13/2025

10/03/2025

Join leaders from Atlanta’s premier global health agencies for an insiders’ discussion on the future of global health, as a special event at the 20th annual Decatur Book Festival.

09/26/2025

We're excited The Task Force for Global Health is hosting a panel as part of the Decatur Book Festival! PHII's Director Vivian Singletary took part in last year's panel discussion. So glad to have the opportunity to share on global health's future landscape.

Join us at the Decatur Book Festival on Saturday, October 4, at 1 PM for "Atlanta Leaders on the Future of Global Health: A Community Dialogue." This special panel, hosted by The Task Force for Global Health, features experts from the CDC Foundation, The Carter Center, CARE and The Task Force as they discuss the most pressing global health challenges and how they're being tackled right here in Atlanta. The discussion will be moderated by Rickey Bevington, President of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.

Don't miss this opportunity to connect with your community and learn about the city’s impact on the world. Tall Tales Book Shop will also be on-site selling books.

Location: The Task Force Headquarters, 330 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur, GA 30030

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JHcCf2

08/13/2025

As a long-standing partner of the CDC and an affiliate of Emory University, we are deeply saddened by the tragic events that occurred on Friday in Atlanta. CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, and it is profoundly disturbing that the agency was so violently attacked. The loss of DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose is heartbreaking, and our thoughts are with his family and all those affected. We are grateful to the emergency responders for their courage and service. We stand in support of our colleagues and friends in public health, whose work continues to improve lives both locally and globally.

08/05/2025

We're proud to welcome Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS) to The Task Force for Global Health! PHII is honored to be the coordinating informatics office for the CHAMPS program.

The Task Force for Global Health welcomed the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network Program to our organization in July. Previously, CHAMPS was housed at Emory University's Global Health Institute. As a program of The Task Force, CHAMPS will continue its mission to utilize data-driven science to prevent maternal and child mortality in Africa and South Asia. Learn more about CHAMPS and its important work: https://bit.ly/45cLjQD

Photo credit: CHAMPS

06/25/2025

We're proud of the work Sarah Shaw and our data modernization team did on last year's Data Modernization Boot Camp and how it prompted an online course. Read JPHMP Direct for examples and downloadable content of data governance implementation in public health settings.

PHII's Sarah Shaw reflects on last year's Data Modernization Boot Camp and how it spawned an online Data Governance course. The course features real-world examples of data governance implementation in public health settings and downloadable content for public health professionals in their own data g...

06/12/2025

Senior Informatics Analyst Sarah Shaw (center) and fellow attendees at the CSTE Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, Mich. Sarah presented on data governance for public health professionals and lessons learned from PHII’s informatics-savvy work with the state health departments of Minnesota and Washington.