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Creating Effective Storyboards

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

July 6, 2012

Tatiana Lin is the Senior Analyst & Strategy Team Leader for the Kansas Health Institute. What is a storyboard? For some practitioners, the concept of a storyboard continues to be mysterious and challenging. Many people associate storyboards with filmmaking, but their use goes beyond that. The...

Help Improve Tools for Building Competence in Public Health Professionals: Share Your Feedback with the Council on Linkages

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

June 12, 2012

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Project Manager, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation Striving to continually enhance performance is critical for moving public health organizations, and the field of public health as a whole, forward. Through producing and...

Bialek: Prevention and Public Health Fund Under Attack

Posted in: Infrastructure

April 30, 2012

Ron Bialek, MPP, President, Public Health Foundation The easy choice could have been the healthy choice for the House of Representatives. On April 27, the House demonstrated a lack of leadership and foresight. Making the unhealthy choice to abolish the Prevention and Public Health Fund established...

How Can We Best Improve Public Health Training and Measure Its Impact? We Need to Hear from You!

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

March 26, 2012

Wendy Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd, State Health Officer and Senior Administrator, Public Health Division, Wyoming Department of Health; Chair, Training Impact Task Force High-quality continuing education is vital to the maintenance of a competent public health workforce. In today’s rapidly changing environment,...

Utilization of the TRAIN System within the Medical Reserve Corps Network

Posted in: TRAIN

March 22, 2012

LCDR Skip Payne, Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) TRAIN Administrator The Division of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps (DCVMRC) builds a strong volunteer workforce by providing tools and trainings that strengthen the skills of Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) unit leaders in leading and managing...

Impact of TRAIN Effectiveness and Efficiency on Public Health Accreditation

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

February 27, 2012

David Knapp, TRAIN Administrator (Kentucky), and Jane C. Jones (Kentucky)Public Health Accreditation discussion inevitably finds its way to the topic of workforce development. Quickly, plans of new employee orientations, training matrices, and ideas of how to use existing courses are tossed around ...

Asthma Management: A Local Health Department’s Perspective

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

November 16, 2011

A conversation with Kathleen C. Brown, PhD, MPH, Director of Community Assessment and Health Promotion at the Knox County Health Department (KCHD) in Knoxville, Tennessee What challenges does Knoxville have related to asthma?One of the greatest challenges with asthma management is that even the...

Mike Rudis: The Value of a Team Charter

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

November 11, 2011

Mike Rudis, Training Administrator, Office of Performance Management, Delaware Division of Public Health A team charter is the official document from a team sponsor that empowers the team to act. The Delaware Division of Public Health Process Action Team has used a charter, which describes the mission...

Paul Campbell Erwin: Translating Research into Practice – Is Your Academic Health Department Leading the Way?

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

August 29, 2011

Paul Campbell Erwin, MD, DrPH, Professor and Department Head, Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee Academic health department (AHD) partnerships bring together academic institutions and health departments to strengthen public health education and training, research, and practice. Hig...

Kate Nicholson: Integrating the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals into Workforce Development Initiatives

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

August 3, 2011

Kate Nicholson, MA, Program Manager, Indiana Public Health Training Center (IPHTC), Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Public Health For the past decade, the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Public Health’s 25-member agency training center Advisory Board determined tha...