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Cook County health department emphasizes data-driven outreach on vaccines, vaping and youth mental health
Summary
At a Feb. 3 Cook County Health and Hospitals Committee meeting, CCDPH Chief Operating Officer Kieran Joshi presented Q1 2026 highlights, focusing on school-based vaccination clinics, weekly respiratory surveillance and youth mental-health work; commissioners pressed the department on outreach, enforcement and capacity.
Kieran Joshi, chief operating officer at the Cook County Department of Public Health, told the Health and Hospitals Committee on Feb. 3 that the department is using a cross-cutting “data for action” approach to target public-health interventions across suburban Cook County. Joshi said CCDPH maintains more than 538 indicators on its Cook County Health Atlas and that the agency handled roughly 30 formal data requests in 2025, some requiring days or weeks of staff analysis.
Joshi described a first-year push to bring vaccinations to schools: CCDPH held 29 school clinic events last year and delivered 618 required school vaccinations. “I acknowledge that if you think about the denominator being in about the 10,000 range, that numerator is not very high,” Joshi said, but he added the effort is new and the…
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