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P002: Public Health Division

What We Do

The Public Health Division (PHD) fulfills the NMDOH mission by working with individuals, families, communities and partners to improve health, eliminate disparities, respond to health threats, and ensure timely access to quality, culturally competent health care.

Who We Serve

The Public Health Division serves all New Mexicans.   

How We Impact

PHD staff members implement evidence based public health interventions and promote healthy lifestyle choices that reduce the burden of chronic and infectious disease in our communities. Public Health assures access to health care through case management, and through recruitment and retention efforts including the J-1 Visa Program, licensing of midwives and community health workers, tax credits for  rural health providers, and collaboration with rural primary health care providers throughout the state.

Budget

FY18 OPERATING BUDGET: $ 181,331,100

  • General Funds: $ 49,846,500
  • Other Transfers: $ 16,839,500
  • Federal Funds: $ 72,078,100
  • Other State Funds: $ 42,567,000

Accomplishments

During the fourth quarter of FY18, some of PHD’s accomplishments included:

The Southwest Region was able to conduct a Functional Exercise called “Operation Cascarones” that simulated a 3-day acute infectious disease outbreak affecting the local population along the US border with Mexico, within the Paso del Norte Region (El Paso, TX, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, MX, and Las Cruces, NM). Common cases with international demographics are communicated to and through binational public health organizations and agencies. Simulated social media interaction between the public and exercise participants addressed health concerns of the community and exercised public information and warning. The Southwest Region took the lead on this exercise with collaborations from Office of Border Health, Texas Department of Health, and Health partners from Chihuahua Health Services.

The Northeast Region piloted telemedicine/telehealth amidst a regional clinician shortage to bring access to family planning services in rural communities in Northeast New Mexico. Over the past year, the Region collaborated with the Family Planning Program to pilot the use of technology to bring telehealth services to Guadalupe County. Due to the success of this pilot, staff were able to expand this opportunity to Colfax County, with future hope of adding a third, Union County, in FY19.  

The Tuberculosis (TB) Program coordinates the TB ECHO clinic for active TB patients, started and supports the Navajo Nation ECHO clinic for Navajo patients treated in New Mexico or Arizona, and is actively involved in the first binational bilingual TB ECHO for US, Mexico, and Central American patients.  All three train health workers in TB management while providing high quality care for patients.

With funds from the Brindle Foundation, NMDOH purchased ad space through National CineMedia to increase awareness of effective birth control methods and clinic locations. The mobile banner and Facebook ads directed females aged 13-17 and 18-19 to websites with information on birth control choices.  Another campaign beginning in November, 2018 will include ads for birth control awareness and the BrdsNBz text messaging service and a video for birth control awareness. 

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