Project In a Nutshell Video

Greetings from MPHI President,
Dr. Jay H. Glasser

MPHI in a Nutshell

MPHI is a non-profit organization that is “Promoting Populations Health through Voluntary Health Profession Alliances in Education, Applied Research and Community Programs”. MPHI strives to include the multiple health professions, academic and research institutions; student groups (our future manpower and leadership) Government, Business, Private, and related persons interested in Health, both curative and preventive.

Dr. Roy Schwarz established MPHI following a talk in 1993 concerning the costly gulf between medicine and public health and the need to integrate the fields to meet current population health challenges. Subsequently, in concert with the American Medical Association and The American Public Health Association, MPHI was formally launched with a national Congress in 1996. Organizations and individuals here today were among the original participants and contributors.

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MARKERS in MILESTONES in POPULATION HEALTH – ERADICATION OF DISEASE: “THE HOLY GRAIL OF DISEASE PREVENTION”

Rinderpest and the Context – Comments of Dr. James Steele, DVM MPH

The Washington Post headline of May 26, 2011 points to a landmark in Human and Animal Health. “Rinderpest or ‘cattle plague,’ becomes the second disease to be eradicated.” Second to Small Pox, this represents as the article goes on to recount, a disease that has hobbled herding, and food supply with all its implications since the first report in ancient Chinese manuscripts. Through the millennium man, animals and plants have lived in a dynamic balance with marked swings of habitat, times of excess and times of depriva-

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MPHI & Collaboration Technology

MPHI & Collaboration Technology

There are a lot of “C words” that can be invoked to describe the foundation of MPHI: collaboration, cooperation, and community – and particularly the emphasis on voluntary participation to accomplish the mission and goals of health professions, interested and allied institutions and individuals coming together to improve population health. In these last two decades possibilities have multiplied exponentially with the capacity for two more C words – “communication and cyber capability” further underscore the reasons to work together. The basic tenant of MPHI is that working together around mutual aims and demonstration projects supports concrete steps toward improvement in population health improvement outcomes “where the sum is greater than the separate parts.” MPHI fosters these collaborations through the application of shared values that draw upon technology to create the channels to communicate, a forum to create cooperation and confidence building and activities that result in complementing each members’ mission. Collaboration in communities is as old as human kind, from banding together to secure food and shelter. The rise of agriculture and urban communities attest to the strength of the instinct and development of tools and institutions that foster collaboration. But, equally true, collaboration requires building trust and confidence. With the increasing complexity of challenges, the availability of potential but often underutilized tools and best practices, MPHI can play an important role in implementing health care and public health collaborations. There are compelling reasons to work together, and

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