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Steven Greene, Hazard Mitigation Community
Planner, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Manuela Johnson, State Disaster Recovery Program
Administrator, Indiana Department of
Homeland Security
David Knipe, Engineering Section Manager, Indiana
Department of Natural Resources
Ben Knowles, US Air Force Master Sgt., 181st
Intelligence Wing, Indiana Air National Guard
Mary Moran, Mitigation Program Director, Indiana
Department of Homeland Security
Rodney Renkenberger, Executive Director, Maumee
River Basin Commission
Marylou Renshaw, Chief, Watershed Assessment
and Planning Branch, Indiana Department of
Environmental Management
Chris Ritz, Civil Engineer, Natural Resource
Conservation Service
Al Shipe, Service Hydrologist, National
Weather Service
Jim Sparks, Geographic Information Officer, Indiana
Office of Technology
Kent Wamsley, Upper Wabash Project Director, The
Nature Center
Kathleen Weissenberger, Founding Member of KW
Consultants, LLC and Former Director of Grant
Services and State Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) Director, Office of Community
and Rural Affairs
Phil Worrall, Executive Director, Indiana Geographic
Information Council
Health Geoinformatics
Key Accomplishments
Indiana Partnership for Healthy Communities (IN-PHC)
• Completing its largest contract to date, the
Indiana Partnership for Healthy Communities
conducted a community health needs assessment
(CHNA) for the Parkview Health System (Fort
Wayne) and its seven hospitals in northeast
Indiana. (Established by Polis in 2012, IN-PHC
is a partnership that also includes the Richard
M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and
the Indiana CTSI and serves as a community
health planning consulting service for hospitals,
local health departments, and community-
based organizations). We assisted Parkview
in identifying community health priorities in
each of the counties it serves and developed
associated CHNA reports for submission to
the federal government. We also developed an
Implementation Strategy Resource Guide to
assist Parkview in its subsequent selection of
implementation strategies. Parkview Health has
since contracted IN-PHC for another project to
assess their selected 2017-18 community health
improvement strategies.
Community Health Planning
• We developed an online information sharing
and mapping platform for the Bowen Center
for Health Workforce Research & Policy at the
Indiana University School of Medicine. This
platform, named the Bowen Health Workforce
Information Portal (http://bowenportal.org/),
allows Bowen’s stakeholders to readily discover,
map, and share health workforce data, including
data about Indiana’s workforce supply and
distribution, shortages, and education pipeline.
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