Specifications include, but are not limited to: Specialized health care and safety expert consulting Project coordination Capacity-building activities/projects to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care operations Provision of training and education services as a component to enhance a specific project Quality improvement activities Linkages and collaborations with a range of community partners and providers, which are essential to the provision of comprehensive health services Tracking outcomes and evaluating the project Services may be performed in DPH disciplines to include: communicable disease control such as tuberculosis control and sexually transmitted disease control; family health and nutrition for pregnant women, newborns, and young children; behavioral health; children with special health care needs and their families; health care safety and quality for the investigation and evaluation of current medical practice and health related topics to improve the health and well being of the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; the childhood lead poisoning prevention program; and many others.