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Beginning Your Workforce Development Planning? Five Tips for Getting Started Today!

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

December 11, 2015

The author is Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages at the Public Health Foundation A skilled and competent workforce is critical to an effective organization, but how do you ensure your staff’s skills are well matched to the positions they fill as well as the needs of your organization?...

Do You Employ New Public Health Graduates? Changes Are on the Horizon!

Posted in: Council on Linkages

December 10, 2015

Laura Rasar King, MPH, MCHES, Executive Director, Council on Education for Public Health The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) is the accrediting agency for schools and programs in public health at the baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral levels. CEPH is in the midst of one of the most...

Academic Health Department Mentorship Program – Have You Joined?

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

November 23, 2015

Janelle Nichols, MPH, Project Assistant, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation As highlighted during the American Public Health Association’s 2015 Annual Meeting earlier this month in Chicago, collaboration between academia and public health practice...

How Do We Ensure an Effective Public Health Workforce into the Future?

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

November 11, 2015

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation What is critical to building an even stronger public health workforce for the future? According to national experts speaking at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting earlier this...

Helping Health Departments Create and Implement a PHAB Action Plan

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

October 23, 2015

The Action Plan is a common step on the road to accreditation. Using quality improvement (QI) principles and tools, PHF can provide many types of support to help health departments needing Action Plans to achieve accreditation. This is just one of the ways that PHF supports accreditation preparation....

How I Improved my E-Learning Skills in Five Months

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

September 24, 2015

London Losey, Family Home Visiting Training Coordinator, Minnesota Department of Health This year, from February to June 2015, I participated in the E-Learning Institute (ELI), an e-learning mentoring program that empowers education and training professionals from health departments and public hea...

A Tale of Three Cities on the Journey to Accreditation

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

September 18, 2015

What do the health departments in Ann Arbor (MI), Missoula (MT), and New Orleans (LA) have in common? They each approached the Public Health Foundation (PHF) in 2012 on their journey to accreditation. They had unique needs, timelines, resources, and experiences. Yet each benefited from using the Plan-Do-Check-Act...

Hear from Public Health Workforce Development Experts at Upcoming APHA Annual Meeting

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

September 17, 2015

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation Join the Public Health Foundation (PHF) this November in Chicago at the 2015 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting for an interactive discussion of national workforce development efforts that...

Engage Reluctant Staff in Accreditation

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

September 9, 2015

The authors from the Alabama Department of Public Health include Carol Heier, Performance Improvement Manager/Accreditation Coordinator; Valerie Cochran, Assistant Nursing Director; and Annie Vosel, Director of the Division of Women's and Children's Health and Title X Family Planning. Achieving...

Recapping a Year in the Field

Posted in: Data Analysis, Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF News, Strategic Planning, and Workforce Development

August 5, 2015

It has been a busy year for our Public Health Foundation (PHF) experts who deliver Performance Improvement (PI) Services in performance management, quality improvement (QI), and workforce development. They covered a lot of ground, providing customized on-site technical assistance (TA) and training in...