NC Institute for Public Health and Department of Maternal and Child Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill (Dr Cilenti); Prevention Research Center in St. Louis Brown School, Division of Public Health Sciences and Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis (Dr Brownson); NC Institute for Public Health and Department of Health Behavior, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill (Dr Umble); Department of Public Health and Center for Health Policy and Services Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Dr Erwin); and NC Institute for Public Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, and Orange County Health Department, Hillsborough, North Carolina (Dr Summers).
Correspondence: Dorothy Cilenti, DrPH, MPH, MSW, NC Institute for Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC [email protected].
Funding provided in part by a subaward through the University of Kentucky National Coordinating Center for Public Health Systems and Services Research, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The authors thank the local health departments and academic researchers who were interviewed as part of this study, and Matthew Schnupp, MSPH, BSN, RN, for his assistance with the literature review and data collection activities.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.