NC Public Health Incubator Collaboratives

How Incubators Impact North Carolina

Map of NC with Central Partnership counties highlighted

Incubators work! Incubators achieve positive public health outcomes for North Carolina. Together, they work to save costs to North Carolina through:

  • Increase level and effectiveness of services delivered
  • Increase the shared resources across local health departments
  • Increase equity of service delivery to Incubator & non-Incubator populations
  • Increase opportunities for health departments to solve common problems
  • Improve health outcomes across North Carolina
  • Foster innovative projects
2 women participating in meeting
"Smaller counties such as ours have benefited
greatly from the shared knowledge gained.
It has helped us improve our business
processes and customer service. It also makes
us feel proud to be part of the 'bigger
public health picture.'"
- NC Health Director

Since their inception, Incubator Collaboratives have together leveraged $15 million in additional grant funds to improve the public's health in North Carolina

Example Incubator activities:

  • Regional, evidence-based public health interventions to address tobacco use, diabetes, HIV infection, HPV infections and cancern screening in most of the state's poorest and neediest counties
  • Internships and student learning opportunities
  • Practitioner and scholar forums
  • Grant writing training and proposal development
  • Clinical quality improvement training, assessments and practice interventions
  • Online learning and technical assistance services
  • Collective purchasing of equipment and services
  • Program evaluation trainings and technical assistance
  • Public health information technology assessments and training
  • Public health information technology requirements development, vendor selection and technology roll out
  • Dissemination of Incubator best practices and "lessons learned"

Read more about How Incubators Impact North Carolina (pdf)
A four-page brochure on how Incubators are making positive public health changes in North Carolina.

"As a collaborative project, we share workload, challenge each other, brainstorm, and learn together, and ultimately will benefit from the knowledge and expertise brought to the table by each member" - Incubator Coordinator

"Telling Our Story": A Glimpse into how Incubators Impact North Carolina
 Four video stories that give a glimpse into how the North Carolina Public Health Incubator Collaboratives is improving public health.

You must have RealPlayer, available here, to watch these videos.
Chapter 1: Grant-Writing
Chapter 2: Handheld Technology
Chapter 3: Social Marketing
Chapter 4: Teen Tobacco Use Prevention