Deadline: 31-Dec-21
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Innovative Practices Award in the US.
The 2022 Innovative Practice Award recognizes and honors programs and practices that have been quickly and/or creatively developed in response to COVID-19. Awarded practices will demonstrate clear strategies and success in addressing health inequities, effective community partnerships and collaboration, adaptability and quality improvement, and remarkable innovation, but will have not undergone the same in-depth evaluation process as Model Practices.
Additional Information
- Innovation
- An Innovative Practice must be –
- New to the field of public health, and not just new to your health department, OR
- A creative use of an existing health equity tool, practice, or resource. Examples of an innovative use of an existing health equity tool or practice include leveraging community partners and/or centering the experiences and leadership of directly impacted persons to meet the needs of a specific population, adapting tools or practices from a different discipline, use of new technology, or improving content.
- An Innovative Practice must be –
- Partnerships and Collaboration
- The local health department (LHD) should have a role in the practice’s development and/or implementation. Additionally, the practice should demonstrate broad-based strategic engagement and collaboration with community members and partners, such as government, the public, directly impacted persons, business, healthcare, and other sectors with the goal of acting on root cause/upstream factors that can reduce health inequities
- Quality Improvement
- The local health department (LHD) and partners adapted quickly and/or creatively to maintain and improve the program or practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, OR the program was developed to help maintain or improve the community’s health during the pandemic.
For more information, visit https://www.naccho.org/membership/awards