Email Reminder

Attachment E: Follow up email to non-responders

Dear HAI Coordinator,

We have not yet heard from you regarding our e-mail below. Would you be interested in participating in this opportunity to share your antibiotic stewardship experiences with other health departments? Please RSVP either way to Julie Sharp from the Public Health Foundation, who is included on this e-mail.

Thank you for your partnership,

Dear HAI Coordinator,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Foundation (PHF) are pleased to invite you to participate in an exciting opportunity to share your antibiotic stewardship experiences with other health departments and other organizations. PHF and CDC are partnering to understand strategies, tools, and lessons learned about antibiotic stewardship activities at health departments so that this information may help others interested in pursuing or improving antibiotic stewardship activities. We would like to learn more about your jurisdiction’s antibiotic stewardship activities and gather any valuable examples and tools you may have to share.

In spring 2016, PHF will be conducting conversations with Healthcare Associated Infection Coordinators and up to two additional public health practitioners working on antibiotic stewardship across the healthcare continuum (as deemed appropriate by the HAI Coordinators). These conversations will focus on antibiotic stewardship activities and will collect examples of tools, strategies, and methods used to develop and improve antibiotic stewardship programs, as well as any barriers encountered. Each conversation should last for approximately 40 minutes, and participation in this project is completely voluntary and not related to current or future funding.

PHF is a private, non-profit organization focused on improving the public’s health through strengthening the quality and performance of public health practice. Over the past few years, PHF has been developing and implementing quality improvement strategies in communities, such as the Public Health Antibiotic Stewardship Driver Diagram, to help improve the quality of antibiotic stewardship activities.

We hope you will be interested in sharing your valuable antibiotic stewardship experiences and resources with PHF and CDC so that we may help other health departments and organizations to address this important community health challenge. Would you be willing to participate in this conversation? Please RSVP either way to Julie Sharp from the Public Health Foundation, who is included on this e-mail.

Thank you for your partnership,