NC Public Health Incubator Collaboratives

What are Incubator Collaboratives
(NC PHICs)?

NC PHICs are teams of local health departments working together voluntarily to address pressing public health issues.

Map of NC with Central Partnership counties highlighted

How do NC PHICs improve the public's health in North Carolina?

NC PHICs enable the sharing of resources and ideas such that autonomous local health departments can focus on their community health needs while benefiting from regional public health initiatives.

Member health departments work together to:

  • Increase level and effectiveness of services delivered
  • Increase shared resources across local health departments
  • Increase equity of service delivery to incubator populations
  • Increase opportunity to solve common problems
  • Improve Health Outcomes of North Carolina Citizens
  • Foster Innovation
Here's what local health directors are talking about in North Carolina..

Ideas, Innovation, & Incubator Projects with Statewide Impact

Public Health's Role in Health Reform;
Quality Improvement, Clinic Flow & Redesign; &
Budget Cuts