School of Public Health

For transforming organizations and communities, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Population Health Division has embraced population health lean—a transdisciplinary management system for learning, adaptation, innovation, and continuous improvement based on the Toyota Production System (lean), collective impact and other methods. Our training focus is on lean thinking and practice. Our values include respect for people (humility, compassion, equity, and dignity) and continuous improvement (challenge, "go and see" to understand, kaizen, and teamwork).