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  • Home: System Transformation
  • Framework of Foundational Responsibilities
  • Joint Leadership Team
  • Minn. Infrastructure Fund and Local Innovation Projects
  • Governance Groups and Communities of Practice
  • Data Modernization
  • Regional Data Models
  • Tribal Public Health Capacity and Infrastructure
  • FPHR Grant: Funding for Foundational Responsibilities
  • Reports, Fact Sheets, Resources
  • Newsletter
  • Message Toolkit

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Transforming the Public Health System in Minnesota
Contact the Joint Leadership Team and Staff

Contact Info

Transforming the Public Health System in Minnesota
Contact the Joint Leadership Team and Staff
LPHA, MDH, SCHSAC

Joint Leadership Team

Transforming the public health system in Minnesota 

The Joint Leadership Team serves as the stewards of transforming the public health system in Minnesota. To truly transform Minnesota's public health system, representatives from across Minnesota's public health system work together.

This happens through: 

Representative membership

The Joint Leadership Team sits at the intersection of LPHA, SCHSAC, and MDH.

  • This team is structured to bring together key leaders of Minnesota’s governmental public health system—state health officials (MDH), local health directors (LPHA), and locally-elected community health board officials (SCHSAC).
  • Each organization identifies its own representatives to sit on the Joint Leadership Team.
  • The team is exploring what it looks like to increase work with Tribal Nations and Tribal health directors.

Shared leadership

  • Changing Minnesota’s governmental public health system requires shared leadership.
  • Joint Leadership Team members bring the perspectives of their members, and champion and lead change in their sector.

Consistent dialogue and trust-building

  • The team operates in twice-monthly meetings, with asynchronous communication between meetings.

Outside the Joint Leadership Team, different sectors of the public health system are builders and project managers of specific pieces of work that make the Joint Leadership Team vision a reality. 

 

Roadmap: Where we've been, where we're going

This roadmap is a tool to help everyone working to transform the public health system move in the same direction, even when working across different paths and on different timelines. It can help orient everyone involved to notice where action is happening around them, the part they could or should play, how they can adapt to changes, and where opportunities or challenges are apparent. 

Several activities have happened or are happening to pave the path for action. This roadmap lays out pathways and strategies to build on these activities, and milestones that have already happened.

The Joint Leadership Team will update this roadmap periodically as different sectors of the public health system carry out work and as the social and policy landscapes surrounding the system change. 

Go: Roadmap Toward a Seamless, Responsive, Publicly-Supported Public Health System

 

Contact the Joint Leadership Team

Please direct any questions or feedback to a Joint Leadership Team representative from your specific sector, below, due to the collaborative nature of transforming Minnesota's public health system.

  • Subscribe for regular updates from the Joint Leadership Team: Subscribe: Updates from the Joint Leadership Team.
  • Past newsletters: Newsletter: Public Health System Transformation Update

 

Members

Local Public Health Association of Minnesota (LPHA)

Amy Westbrook
Division Director, St. Louis County Public Health 

2025 LPHA Chair

Sara Hollie
Director, Hennepin County Public Health

LPHA Chair-Elect

Nick Kelley
Administrator, Bloomington Public Health

Immediate Past LPHA Chair

Kari Oldfield-Tabbert
Executive Director, LPHA

 

State Community Health Services Advisory Committee (SCHSAC)

De Malterer
Commissioner, Waseca County

2025-2026 SCHSAC Chair

Laurie Halverson
Commissioner, Dakota County

SCHSAC Chair-Elect

Tarryl Clark
Commissioner, Stearns County

Immediate Past SCHSAC Chair

 

Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)

Brooke Cunningham
Commissioner of Health

Kris Rhodes
Director, Office of American Indian Health and Interim Assistant Commissioner, Health Equity Bureau

Halkeno Tura
Assistant Commissioner, Health Improvement Bureau

Mel Gresczyk
Assistant Commissioner, Health Operations Bureau

Chelsie Huntley
Director, Public Health Strategy and Partnership Division

Kim Milbrath
Section Manager, Center for Public Health Practice

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Last Updated: 10/15/2025

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