Minnesota Institute of Public Health

It doesn't matter what line of business you are in, if you don't have customers, you don't have a business.

One could argue, IS there a topic that has NOT found its way into the health care reform national discussion?  That said, in our 38 year history of work in substance abuse prevention, MIPH staff and our partners have noted with interest how infrequently substance abuse prevention has been part of the dialog.

(This is a retrospective about life at MIPH in 2009).

Like most places, MIPH began 2009 with a mixture of hope for the future, confidence from our past work, worry about an awful economy, and realization of what we could influence in our world of health improvement.

Dealing with major systems change can be tough. I've blogged before about these times of change and what they seem to mean to people within their organizations. Change remains one of the few constants in life.