Retention and Recruitment Toolkit
January 14, 2025
This document serves as a starting point for a web-based toolkit on retention and recruitment in governmental public health. This PDF document provides an organizing framework, examples, strategies, and resources in five categories:Organizational Culture, Workplace Environment, & Employee ExperienceProfessional...
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Cause/Solution and Effect Diagram – A Quality Improvement Tool Innovation
January 2, 2025
The Public Health Foundation (PHF) is always working to present new and innovative approaches to using quality improvement (QI) tools and techniques that help improve the effectiveness of a health department’s processes. In an initiative led by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Office...
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Public Health Quality Improvement Encyclopedia Mobile App
July 8, 2024
Quality improvement (QI) in public health is the use of a deliberate and defined improvement process, such as Plan-Do-Check-Act, which is focused on activities that are responsive to community needs and improving population health. It is essential for health departments to use QI tools to fulfill their...
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Crosswalk of the 2021 and 2014 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
July 18, 2023
This resource is available as an Excel file (above) and as a pdf file (available below).This crosswalk of the 2021 and 2014 versions of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) illustrates the relationships between specific competencies within these two versions....
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Determining Essential Core Competencies for Public Health Jobs: A Prioritization Process (2021 Core Competencies)
November 21, 2022
Public health organizations can be more effective when the competencies of their staff match the types of activities they do in their jobs. Developing job descriptions that include competencies needed for the positions is a good practice for all organizations and supports successful recruitment, hiring,...
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Understanding the ACIP and How Vaccine Recommendations are Made in the US
November 18, 2022
The Public Health Foundation (PHF), in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has developed an educational video, Understanding the ACIP and How Vaccine Recommendations are Made in the US, to help inform viewers about the process, science, and safety behind vaccine...
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Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
November 12, 2021
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) are a consensus set of knowledge and skills for the broad practice of public health, as defined by the 10 Essential Public Health Services. Developed by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice...
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Contact Tracing Dashboard: Building Community-Based COVID-19 Contact Tracing
March 23, 2021
Contact tracing remains an important tool to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Public Health Foundation and Mathematica teamed up to develop an interactive dashboard that enables states and counties to compare the demographics of contact tracers trained through the TRAIN Learning Network to...
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Crosswalk of the Strategic Skills for the Governmental Public Health Workforce, Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals, and Competencies for Population Health Professionals
February 16, 2021
This crosswalk maps the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) and the Competencies for Population Health Professionals (Population Health Competencies) to the Strategic Skills for the Governmental Public Workforce (Strategic Skills). These three competency/skill sets...
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Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Waste
January 15, 2021
Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine WasteRon Bialek, MPP; Annie Vossel, RN; and John Moran, PhDJanuary 15, 2021The Public Health Foundation (PHF) has been hearing concerns about wasted vaccine from those who are and will be responsible for COVID-19 vaccinations. In response, PHF has engaged in a quality improvement...
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