Improving and Measuring the Impact of Training: Selected References
October 17, 2012
Under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) worked to identify strategies, methods, and tools for improving and measuring the impact of training on the public health workforce. A collection...
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Examples Demonstrating Attainment of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
June 26, 2012
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) are a consensus set of skills identified by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) as being desirable for the delivery of the Essential Public Health Services. To support use...
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E.g.s to Clarify the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
June 26, 2012
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) are a consensus set of skills desirable for the broad practice of public health. To support use of the Core Competencies, the Core Competencies Workgroup has drafted examples, or “e.g.s,” intended to clarify the terminology and...
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Enumeration of the Public Health Workforce Project - Year 1 Summary
June 6, 2012
This report was revised and published in September 2012. Click the "Download this File" link in the green box above to view the latest report.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) are pleased to announce a report on a collaborative...
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Competency-Based Job Descriptions
May 11, 2012
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) represent a set of skills desirable for the broad practice of public health, offering public health organizations a starting point for a variety of workforce development activities, including the creation of competency-based...
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How to Focus Your Training and Professional Development Efforts to Improve the Skills of Your Public Health Organization: White Paper
April 10, 2012
This white paper reports on a series of workshops on focusing limited training and professional development resources to build competence within the public health workforce. Using a quality improvement tool, the prioritization matrix, workshop participants determined the relative importance of the...
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3-Step Competency Prioritization Sequence
February 13, 2012
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) define a broad array of professional development areas a public health organization may wish to consider in designing and executing a workforce development plan—a key requirement for Public Health Department Accreditation. However,...
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Academic Health Department Partnership Agreements
February 6, 2012
Academic health departments (AHDs) are formed by the affiliation of health departments and academic institutions providing education in the health professions. Health departments and academic institutions may collaborate informally or may establish more formal affiliations through the signing of...
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Using TRAIN for Research: Your Guide for Using the TRAIN Datasets for Research Webinar
February 6, 2012
Duration: 15 MinutesThis webinar, made available through funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, outlines how the TRAIN learning management system (LMS) can be utilized by researchers to study the public health workforce and expand the Public Health Systems and Services Research (PHSSR) age...
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How to Focus Your Training and Professional Development Efforts to Improve the Skills of Your Public Health Organization (2011 APHA Annual Meeting)
November 21, 2011
This presentation addresses the use of a quality improvement tool, the prioritization matrix, to identify workforce development needs. In this example, the relative importance of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals domains is considered in order to help public health organizations focus resources...
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