The Strategic Plan guides the Department’s role in optimizing population health by advancing social and health equity. In 2021-22, the Alameda County Health, Public Health Department engaged in a year-long process of updating our Strategic Map. This refreshed Map builds on the 2019-2022 Strategic Plan and the one-page articulation of it, the Strategic Map, that was developed and adopted by the Leadership Team in 2018-19. The refreshed Strategic Map provides a roadmap to foster a shared understanding among staff of what the Department plans to achieve, how it will achieve it, and how it will know whether efforts are successful. The strategic plan leverages the Department’s strengths, including its collective capacity and capability to amplify assets and address weaknesses and challenges. QIA supports the Leadership Team in implementing the plan, monitors progress, and provides administrative support for this work area.

The “Strategic Refresh” process included 1) reviewing and aligning with recommendations from the California Department of Public Health; 2) asking each Division and Unit Director to present their major opportunities and challenges; 3) compiling and prioritizing these opportunities and challenges with the Leadership Team to incorporate into the refreshed Map; 4) updating the graphic representation of the Strategic Map to reflect these changes; and 5) developing an Action Plan for the next 18 months to serve as a guide to implementation.

The result is an Action Plan with 20 distinct projects that attend to the Department’s infrastructure, advance an equity agenda, and promote individual and community health.