FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface: Introduction to the Series of Reports -- Summary -- 1 Introduction and Context -- 2 Reforming Public Health and Its Financing -- 3 Informing Investment in Health -- 4 Funding Sources and Structures to Build Public Health -- Appendix A: Acronyms -- Appendix B: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Opportunities for Public Health Agencies and Population Health--Sara Rosenbaum -- Appendix C: Financing Mission-Critical Investments in Public Health Capacity Development--Eileen Salinsky -- Appendix D: Financing State and Local Public Health Departments: A Problem of Chronic Illness--Samuel Y. Sessions -- Appendix E: Funding Diagram for Public Health -- Appendix F: For the Public's Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability: Report Summary -- Appendix G: For the Public's Health: Revitalizing Law and Policy to Meet New Challenges -- Report Summary -- Appendix H: Meetings Agendas -- Appendix I: Committee Biosketches.