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www.cdc.gov/phppo/inpho/ - This site contains information on CDC's Information Network for Public Health Officials program. The Information Network for Public Health Officials has three goals: 1) to make communication among public health practitioners throughout the United States easy, 2) to make information accessible, and 3) to make secure data exchange as swift and smooth as contemporary technology will allow. Based on a systems approach to supporting the core functions of public health, the Information Network for Public Health Officials achieves its goals by creating a flexible and user-responsive infrastructure of open communications and information exchange.

aspe.os.dhhs.gov/statereg/ - The Registry of State-Level Efforts to Integrate Health Information is a registry of state data integration efforts, related state data policy activities, and key contact persons. This registry employs a broad definition of "data integration" in identifying relevant state projects, including community profiling systems and hospital discharge datasets.

web.health.gov/communityguide/ - Hosted by the US Public Health Service this site provides information on the Public Health Service's efforts to develop a Guide to Community Preventive Services. The guide's primary audience is people involved in planning, funding, and implementing population-based services and policies to improve health at the community and state level.

web.health.gov/phfunctions/ - The Web site of the Public Health Functions Task Force, this site hosts useful information on current public health functions projects as well as a downloadable copy of their report, The Public Health Workforce: An agenda for the 21st Century.