oralhealthindex.org Wansoo Im, Ph.D Associate Professor Family and Community Medicine Meharry Medical College

1. Oral Health Needs Index:
Transforming Data to
Improve Oral Health
August 8, 2018

3. OHNI
Team &
Presenters
Cherry Houston, PhD, MPH, RN
OHNI Project Director Critical Learning Systems, Inc.
Wansoo Im, PhD
Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College
and Director of the National Community Mapping Institute
Ankit Sanghavi BDS, MPH
Executive Director Texas Health Institute, OHNI Team Member
Charlotte Baker, DrPH, MPH, CPH
Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine,
Virginia Tech (Formally at FAMU during pilot)
Host: Azam Masood, et al,
The Florida Institute for Health Innovation
Florida Oral Health Alliance
OHNI Team & Presenters

4. What makes OHNI Unique?
•Unique Focus
•Design
•Value to the End-User

5. Where are we now and where we wish to be?
•Pilot tool
•User Feedback
•Data exploration
•Tool for community engagement

34. FAMU Focus Group
Charlotte Baker, DrPH, MPH, CPH
Respondent
• Using the OHNI tool to
support oral health hot-
spotting
• Refine, Select, & Consider
variables that were specific to
Florida
• Vary the data sources
• Vary the data types
• Partner with agencies,
organizations, and universities

35. Miami OHNI Focus Group
• Some participants were:
• Alina V. Soto, Statewide Quality Liaison, Fl.
Dept. of Children & Families, Office of Child
Care Regulation, Co- Chair Consortium for a
Healthier Miami-Dade, Chair, Children Issues
Committee, Consortium for a Healthier
Miami-Dade
• Alfonso “Alfie” Leon, Esq., Vice Chair,
Children Issues Committee, Consortium for a
Healthier Miami-Dade
• Cristina Brito, Program Officer Health
Impact, United Way
• Dr. Rosa Martin, Fl. Dept. of Health
Miami-Dade County
• Dr. Ibelys Subirats-Torres, Fl. Dept. of
Health, Miami-Dade County
• Santiago Bunce, Vice-President, Catalyst
Miami
• Nina Thompkins, Community Health
Director, Prosperity Campaign, Catalyst
Miami
• Shannon, Catalyst Miami

36. Summary
• Tool Overview
• Multi-faceted approach
• Community focused
• Next Steps

37. Questions & Feedback