For this two-year initiative the Central Partnership seeks to build a practice-based research network by increasing local health departments' capacity to drive funding priorities on this issue locally, statewide, and nationally.

In the first year, energies will focus on building collaborative relationships across multiple public health occupational groups to develop practice-based research agenda networks in local health departments.

In the second year, public health worker networks continue to prioritize issues and collect feedback from other public health workers across the state to use for advocacy, intervention, and policy development together with Schools of Public Health and other research partners.

Project Update: March 2011
In 2010-2011, the partnership has worked on transitioning the PH PBRN from a regional initiative to a statewide initiative. The North Carolina Public Health Association has agreed to be the "parent organization" for the continuation of this effort.

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