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working with other agency partner to prepare for smoke response, prescribed burn messaging, and deploying purple air monitors to public locations to expand our AQ monitoring throughout the county. • will be hosting the AAR meeting for our measles response soon. Epidemiology/Lianne Bradshaw ■ came from leave and jumped right into our measles response in January /February. • has been transitioning into her role as the shared epidemiologist between Grant County Health District (GCHD) and KCPHD. ■ is working on TB & other CD reporting, Child Fatality Review data, and overdose data for Grant, all while onboarding with GCHD. • has been working on KCPHD's data request process, data manual & handbook, CD reporting, respiratory illness data visualizations, and other internal processes. • is participating in EOP annex discussion & updates pertaining to CD response/capacity. Assessment/MacKenzie Carter • continued to coordinate the ongoing strategic planning process. Because priorities and capacity constantly shift and evolve, we are testing out a continuous strategic planning model to allow for the flexibility needed in our department while maintaining the same goals/objectives identified originally. • in late 2025, we applied for and received one-time funding that will allow us to onboard RedCAP (Research Electronic Data Capture), which is a web -based software that is designed for building online surveys, databases, workflows, and data collection tools that will interface with the public. As part of our funding, we will be piloting processes with the CD team and other staff that work directly with the community. • been dedicating time to streamlining internal department processes and building templates to standardize many elements of program planning and data collection processes as well as testing out Microsoft Power Automate to automate workflows that are regularly used in the department. • is working with CWU public health faculty to explore partnerships for service -learning projects for students. We are focusing on project -based opportunities before we explore internships in the future. • is part of the website team that is preparing for content creation and migration for the new website as well as reviewing design/function elements as they are developed by the contractor. • is supporting other department projects in the EH and Veterans programs. Communications/Jess Santos • is leading the new website project for KCPHD as well as largely contributing to the configuration and design of the entire county website. • participating in EOP annex discussion and updates. • we distributed our first newsletter using Mailchimp as part of one of the communications plan objectives to increase engagement with the community. ■ started working on our 2nd campaign for Public Health Week in April. • presented a communications report reflecting on the accomplishments, outputs, and insights from 2025. • continues to develop guides and workplans for internal department processes to expand competency and capacity with communications tasks. • working with other department staff on customer journey mapping activities • working with Deputy Director and Finance Director on project scope for county -wide communications needs discovery project.