The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is seeking a family physician, who does asthma care, to serve on a strategic evaluation team that is part of ODH’s grant-funded Comprehensive Asthma Control through Evidence-Based Strategies and Public Health project. The federal grant is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a five-year cycle that began August 1, 2014, and goes through Wednesday, July 31, 2019.
The purpose of the grant is to maximize the reach, impact, efficiency, and sustainability of comprehensive asthma control services. The intent of the program is to provide comprehensive asthma care that provides a seamless alignment of the full array of services across the public health and health care sectors so that people with asthma receive all, not just some, of the services they need.
As the project moves into the second year of a five year grant cycle, ODH is looking for a physician, who specializes in adult and pediatric asthma care, to serve as a subject matter expert on the statewide asthma strategic evaluation plan. Strategic Evaluation Program (SEP) meetings are held on a quarterly basis at a central Ohio location during weekdays (typically 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.).
- Increase the reach, efficiency, and sustainability of comprehensive guideline-based asthma services
- Expand health care coverage, ensuring people with asthma have access to guideline-based medical management and asthma control medicine
- Link people with asthma, who are without a primary care provider or who have more severe disease, to more individualized services
- Promote intensive self-management education, school and home-based services, and environmental management strategies.
- Infrastructure – supporting leadership, strategic partnerships, strategic communications, surveillance, and evaluation
- Services – expanding school-based and home-based services
- Health systems – improving coverage, delivery, quality, and use of clinical services.
- Provide stakeholders with an update on the status of grant activities
- Develop/update current individualized evaluation projects
- Build evaluation capacity within the state by providing education to the team members on evaluation
- Disseminate data products.
If you are interested in serving, please contact ODH Human Services Program Consultant Ambur Banner, MSW, LSW, by calling 614.644.0205.