accreditation team, and karen pierce is the had he had with isela for the record, cora hoover, melissa ta, karen cohn, karen yu, marise rodriguez, janine young, and veronica shepard. so on march 7, 2016, the san francisco department of public health achieved the arduous work of becoming a fully accredited public health department by the national public health accreditation board. [applause]. >> the accreditation is for conducting high quality continuous improving core public health services. nod in addition to the strategic plan, the community health assessment and the community health improvement plan, using standards and erbmas, we must demonstrate organizational competencies in 12 public health domains: community assessments, field investigations, health education and information dissemination, community engagement, policy development and planning, legal enforcement, ensuring access to health services, workforce development, continuous quality improvement, research and evidence based practice, administration and management and governance. the public health accreditation team led by kar