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All people in Oregon deserve to live in a state where they can have the best chance at health. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted major gaps in our public health system which showed us that new, complex health threats do not impact all Oregonians equally. It is unjust that rural communities, communities of color, tribal communities, disability communities, communities with lower income and other underserved communities experience worse effects of health problems. One key solution to this problem is to create an equity-centered public health system through public health modernization.
Learn how partners are working together to serve their communities through public health modernization.
Conozca cómo nuestros socios trabajan juntos para servir a sus comunidades a través de la modernización de la salud pública.
ORS 431.413 requires each LPHA to adopt and update as necessary a local public health modernization assessment and, based on that assessment, adopt, implement, monitor, evaluate and modify as necessary a local public health modernization plan. Most LPHAs based their modernization plans on cost and capacity assessments conducted in 2024. For more information on those assessments, see the statewide report: Modernization Capacity and Cost Assessment, April 2025. OHA is reviewing modernization plans that were due 12/31/2025, and will continue to update the list of LPHA plans as others are approved.
View LPHA Modernization Implementation Plans
Modernization Manual
Public Heath Modernization Evaluation
Accountability Metrics and Data Modernization
Oregon’s Public Health Advisory Board (PHAB) has established a set of accountability metrics to track progress towards the modernization of Oregon’s public health system.
Modernization Assessment Report
Modernization Vision
Related documents
Foundational Public Health Services
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
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