The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #51360

Antigone Recachinas Vickery, MPH, Center for Education & Practice, ASPH, 1101 15th Street, NW - Suite 910, Washington, DC 20005, 202-296-1099, avickery@asph.org

The need for a coordinated national approach to public health workforce development has been discussed for over a decade since the IOM report. Although there have been many individual successes, a gap remains between needs of front line staff and opportunities to acquire competencies that will enhance staff capacity for public health and emergency preparedness. National plans and new funds for workforce training and emergency preparedness, are providing rich opportunities for academic centers, the practice community, and federal, state and local agencies to join forces to train working professionals in public health while addressing scholarship and excellence in practice-based curricula and research. In this session, representatives from HRSA Public Health Training Centers and CDC-funded Centers for Public Health Preparedness will share how these centers as a whole are addressing local/regional workforce needs while contributing to improved coordination at the national level.

Learning Objectives:

• 1- Describe key elements of national plans for public health workforce development. 2- Describe crosscutting models within the pool of both CDC-Centers for Public Health Preparedness and HRSA-Public Health Training Centers and show how they are contributing to workforce development and emergency preparedness at the local/regional level, while enhancing progress towards national public health workforce development goals. 3- Discuss how academic center’s practice-oriented research, in collaboration with practice partners, is vital for building future workforce development strategies to augment local public health system performance and improve infrastructure. 4- Illustrate how training, that is backed up by practice-based research, can define new directions for public health practice.

Keywords: Workforce, Bioterrorism

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: CDC, HRSA, APHA, ASPH, NACCHO, ASTHO
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: grants and coordinating partners for public health anti-bioterrorism and workforce training initiative, overall