About JPHIT

The Joint Public Health Informatics Task Force (JPHIT) is a coalition that provides a forum for coordination and collaboration of public health informatics priorities across its member organizations. JPHIT’s primary aim is to serve as a unified voice on national public health informatics policy issues.

JPHIT is a task force made up of representatives of public health, non-profit healthcare care organizations and a limited number of federal and non-governmental partners. Collectively, the task force represents a broad spectrum of public health and health informatics policy and practice. JPHIT integrates the expertise and reach of a diverse set of national organizations to advance public health informatics capabilities by identifying synergies, building consensus, and facilitating action.

Vision

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A modernized, sustainably funded, data driven, interoperable public health system that supports the health of communities around the US.

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Mission

Coordinate and align leaders to advance public health informatics across the larger health data ecosystem.

History

JPHIT was originally formed in 2008. During the first ten years of its convening, the task force was committed to identifying synergies among national public health organizations, building consensus, and ensuring a complete perspective on issues that regard information technology development and use for public health. The task force briefly paused its operations in 2018, but the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for modern, integrated, timely, and accurate disease detection and response that can protect the health of Americans. At the time, national public health and informatics associations recognized the need for a unified voice to advocate for policy, funding and infrastructure that enables data modernization for state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) public health agencies. With this recognized need, JPHIT reconvened in January 2023.