Who We Are
Visionaries created MSPHI to support and promote public health and to help advance public health in Mississippi, establishing the organization as leaders in the state’s public health evolution. We focus on the pressing and challenging public and behavioral health care issues that our communities face.
Organic growth since our inception has set the stage for MSPHI to help frame an evolved, modern approach to advance population health in Mississippi.
What We Do
MSPHI fosters partnerships that bolster and advance program innovation and health equity while increasing the accessibility and impact of health resources, education, health awareness, and applied research and policy.
Our mission is to engage in partnerships and activities that improve Mississippi’s health.
With an experienced staff and deep pool of consultants, MSPHI can scale up or down to meet the needs of any engagement. We work primarily across four interrelated domains:

Community Health

Chronic Disease

Maternal & Child Health

Public/Mental Health Practice
We Envision a System That Includes
A chief health strategist to help advance community-driven solutions.
Chief Health Strategist
Nationally accredited workforce of forward-thinking change makers.
Accredited Workforce
Structured, cross-sector partnerships to foster shared funding, services, ownership, governance, and collective action.
Cross-Sector Partnerships
Enhanced, substantially modified funding for public health.
Funding for Public Health
Use of timely and locally relevant data, metrics, and analytics.
Use of Relevant Data
News
Engage. Empower. Enhance.
The Mississippi Behavioral Health Learning Network (MSBHLN) provides professional and workforce development to behavioral providers.