Both HRSA and CDC are supporting national centers at schools of public health to ready public health workers to meet the many challenges facing them on the front lines. These collaborative federal-academic efforts are cutting-edge in their primary focus towards training working professionals in public health while addressing scholarship and excellence in practice-based curricula and research.
The CDC program seeks to ensure that frontline public health workers have the skills and competencies required to effectively respond to current and emerging health threats. Grantees are working with state and local public health agencies and other practice organizations to: assess the learning needs of public health workers; develop effective curricula; train, certify, and credential workers; use appropriate technology in course delivery; translate applied research into improving worker competency and the health of the public; and, evaluate the impact of these efforts.
The HRSA centers aim to improve the nation’s public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competence and capacity of the current and future workforce. HRSA grantees have aligned with multiple academic and practice partners to: meet the training needs of public health workers providing service to medically underserved populations; establish and/or strengthen field placements for students; and, involve faculty members and students to enhance services to improve the public’s health.
The scientific session will consist of 2 grantees each from the pool of HRSA and CDC centers reporting on progress over the first year of the project, with a moderator from a practice organization serving as facilitator.
Learning Objectives: Articulate how various federally-funded centers at schools of public health are working to prepare and train the public health workforce; describe specific linkages between academic institutions, federal agencies, and practice partners and show how this collaboration is vital to building the public health infrastructure; and, discuss methods to translate scientifically-rigorous practice-based research and teaching into professional training for improving the health of the public.
Keywords: Workforce, Public Health Infrastructure
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: CDC
HRSA
Schools of Public Health
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.