Our Vision:
To improve the health of women of childbearing age,
adolescents, children, infants, and children and youth with special health care
needs through rigorous, high-quality, data-driven surveillance, needs
assessment, evaluation, and research.
Our Mission:
To provide expertise in applied epidemiology and
surveillance to promote public health decisions and recommendations for the
best possible health outcomes for women of childbearing age, adolescents,
children, infants, and children and youth with special health care needs.
To conduct research projects based on innovative scientific
approaches and advanced statistical analyses to expand the knowledge base on
maternal and child health populations.
To inform public health interventions, programs, and
policies through timely and accurate surveillance, needs assessment,
evaluation, and research that have been translated into usable and meaningful
information.
To improve surveillance and case review activities in Texas
and timely and accurate reporting of data and findings.
Our Values:
Integrity: trust,
transparency, accountability, ethical commitment, reliability, respect
Excellence: meet
and exceed expectations, continuous improvement, identify and document best
practices, promote high-quality outcomes
Professionalism:
personal and professional accountability, unity within our unit, discipline,
inclusivity, diversity
Leadership:
innovative, proactive, visionary, stewardship
Our Functions and
Expertise:
Population Health
Needs Assessment and Surveillance: To assess the current status, needs, and
disparities within the maternal and child health population through data
collection, data analytics, and geographic mapping.
Program and
Intervention Evaluation: To utilize mixed-mode data collection to drive
maternal and child health program and intervention refinement.
Measurement and
Reporting: To measure and report the impact of health conditions, and
respond to data requests by agency executives, legislators, federal and local partners,
advocates, media, and the public-at-large.
Research and Creative
Inquiry: To expand the knowledge base by assessing the causes and impacts
of health outcomes among maternal and child health populations. To stay current
on best practices and cutting-edge methods in the field.
Pregnancy Risk
Assessment Monitoring System: To collect, analyze, and report
Texas-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences
before, during, and shortly after pregnancy.
State Systems
Development Initiative: To develop, enhance, and expand maternal and child
health data capacity for its needs assessment and performance measure reporting
in the Title V MCH Block Grant program.
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