Annual Report

This past year tested public health with familiar and new challenges, including political polarization, shifting funding, public skepticism, and persistent workforce burnout. Despite this environment, Colorado's public health professionals showed up, adapted, and moved the work forward. 

At CPHA, we focused on turning vision into action by strengthening our organizational foundation. We advanced toward a more sustainable operational model, expanded member engagement, and deepened our commitment to being an equity-centered, anti-racist organization. These efforts ensure our work is relevant, accountable, and impactful in the communities we serve...

In this year's edition of the Colorado Public Health Association's (CPHA) Annual Report, I extend a heartfelt welcome to all who are privileged to partake in this reflection. Your presence here signifies not only resilience, but a remarkable journey through tumultuous times—navigating the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, confronting the profound reckoning with racial injustice that has stirred our global consciousness, and, perhaps, discovering meaningful insights about yourselves amidst the pervasive burnout that has defined these years in public health...

It has been an historic year for the Colorado Public Health Association as the following pages will attest. In 2021, as we faced down rampant misinformation and disinformation campaigns, anti-public health movements, political polarization, and the parallel pandemics of COVID-19 and endemic racism, I declared that Colorado needed an empowered, unified, and mobilized public health more than ever and CPHA has answered that call...