The Public Health Institute at Denver Health offers a variety of clinical services to Colorado and Denver residents in the areas listed below. Several of our specialty programs, such as travel vaccinations and tuberculosis (TB) clinic, provide supportive care for patients, providers and organizations located throughout the Denver metro area.
Our Commitment to Data Equity
What is our approach to Data Equity? The Public Health Institute at Denver Health aspires to present data humbly, recognizing numbers never tell the whole story. We strive to work with individuals and communities to learn and share their stories to improve collective understanding. Knowing that people across life circumstances have inequitable opportunities to achieve optimal health, we commit to pair numbers and stories to inform policy and systems change to improve health for all.
The Public Health Institute at Denver Health (PHIDH) commits to being anti-racist and promoting policies and principles that advance health and racial equity. We aim to position ourselves in the fight to end systemic racism and we acknowledge that becoming anti-racist is not a static achievement. It is lifelong work that we must commit to every day.
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The Public Health Institute at Denver Health (PHIDH) engages in a comprehensive annual strategic planning process designed to ensure that its efforts remain aligned with the department’s mission and vision. This process serves as an opportunity to assess and recalibrate the Institute’s goals and initiatives, ensuring they continue to meet the evolving needs of the communities we serve. During this strategic planning period, the department thoroughly reflects on key accomplishments and evaluates the progress made over the previous year.
The Public Health Institute at Denver Health (PHIDH) supports continuous Quality Improvement (QI) across our department and with community partners. By leveraging the Toyota Production System's Lean principles, we strive to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in all aspects of our work. Lean principles allow us to identify and eliminate waste, optimize processes, and create a culture of ongoing improvement. Through the application of these principles, we can streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and deliver more efficient and responsive services to those we serve.
Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to opportunity, such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences. Achieving equity also requires addressing the social determinants of health to better ensure access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education, housing, safe environments, and health care. Being as healthy as possible refers to the highest level of health that reasonably could be within an individual’s reach if society made adequate efforts to provide opportunities.1
The Public Health Institute at Denver Health has an equitable hiring toolkit that is given to all hiring managers when they request a position with Denver Health and Hospital Authority’s Human Resource Department. This provides a standard hiring process for PHIDH and creating a process that reduces bias from hiring managers and enhances inclusive recruiting and hiring practices. The Inclusive Hiring Toolkit includes the following elements: FAQs, Inclusive Hiring Action List, Sample Interview Questions, Sample Candidate Evaluation Form, evidence-based inclusive hiring practices and an internal hiring roles and responsibilities matrix.
The Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series Discussion Guide is to be used in conjunction with viewing the APHA webinar series and includes a webinar summary, pre- and post-webinar questions, an activity and resources for each webinar in the series. Primarily designed for public health students and professionals, this guide can be used by anyone interested in having meaningful discussions about racism and racial equity.
The guide is designed to help viewers recap the content of the webinars as well as to provide a framework to invoke meaningful conversations about racism and its connection to health inequities in the United States. All recordings and slides are available at: https://apha.org/racial-equity
The purpose of the Building an Equitable Workplace at Local Health Departments Toolkit is to support the ability of local health departments to look inward, to consider how policy, practice, and culture are advancing equity and inclusion within their department and among their staff, and to take action toward positive change.
This one-page Anti-Racism for Medical Educators Checklist was distilled from a longer guide in the Anti-Racism Primer and Toolkit for Medical Educators in order to assist educators in reviewing their curriculum.
About three times a year, PHIDH holds a grand rounds lecture on a different public health topic for its employees, staff, partners and colleagues. Past topics have included sexual health, the results accountability framework, access to care/care coordination, digital and social media's role in public health, and creating a culture of health in America.
Contact the Public Health Institute at Denver Health
Clinics and Services are located at:
660 N. Bannock St., 2nd Floor
Denver, CO 80204
Administration and Community Programs are located at:
601 N. Broadway,
Denver, CO 80203
303-602-3700 Phone
303-602-3676 Fax
