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Population Health Division details data, lab modernization and neighborhood health planning
Summary
The San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Population Health Division told the Health Commission about organizational changes, a $151 million budget, lab billing improvements after EPIC integration, the community health assessment/CHIP process and a push for neighborhood‑level epidemiology.
Dr. Susan Philip, director of the Population Health Division (PhD) at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, presented an overview of the division’s work and priorities to the Health Commission on Sept. 22, highlighting data modernization, public health laboratory upgrades and neighborhood‑level community health planning.
Dr. Philip said the division’s total expenditure budget is about $151 million and that roughly 25 percent of funding comes from grant sources. She described an organizational change that added deputy directors and deputy health officers to improve coordination across branches, and she introduced a new deputy director for Surveillance, Data and Analytics, Dr. Kyle…
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