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The purpose of this blog is to facilitate dialogue among local health department professionals interested in the public health informatics community. The blog serves as an informal venue for regular communications on the latest public health informatics news, resources and promotions. This blog encourages creative discussions and development of new ideas within the community.

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We encourage you to participate in ePublic Health Blog (ePHB) blog through comments, sharing your personal stories or other features of our blog. We can’t respond to every comment, but we do review stories and comments as they’re posted publicly on the site. Submitted content that violates the blog’s comment policy will be removed, for example:

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