In 2004, the NC legislature authorized the creation of “public health incubators,” innovative organizations that foster more effective and efficient allocations of resources. The incubators enable a “critical mass” of resources and shared activities that are often necessary to provide essential public health services and are otherwise unavailable to many of the under-resourced local health districts that are Incubator participants.

The Public Health Incubators are modeled after the Northeastern North Carolina Partnership for Public Health (NENCPPH) which was formed in 1999 and has demonstrated the efficacy of such a partnership. The NENCCPH is one of six public health “incubators” previously funded through this initiative. The following project was being implemented by the NENCPPH with 2007/2009 Incubator Funds: NENCPPH Infrastructure Support and Business Insights/Lean: Applying Lean QI concepts to Public Health.

North Carolina Public Health Initiative