Adaptation of curriculum for an in-person Evidence-Based Public Health Course


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

3147.0: Monday, December 12, 2005 - Board 6

Abstract #103645

Edward Waltz, PhD, The Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, University at Albany, One University Place, Rensselaer, NY 12144, 518-402-0344, ecwaltz@albany.edu, Cate Bohn, MPH, New York State Dept of Health, Public Health Info Group, CCH, Rm 750, Tower, ESP, Albany, NY 12237, and Christopher Maylahn, MPH, New York State Dept of Health, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention and Adult Health, Room 710 - Empire State Plaza, Tower Bldg, Albany, NY 12237.

The evidence-based approach to public health is rapidly gaining favor in our professional community, just as it did in clinical medicine. The Prevention Research Center at the University at Albany School of Public Health and the New York State Health Department Center for Community Health have collaborated to develop a curriculum for an evidence-based public health training course geared to local communities in New York State. To initiate the NYS planning, staff from these two agencies traveled to Missouri to attend the pioneering three-day Evidence-based Public Health developed by staff at St Louis University School of Public Health Prevention Research Center and Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. This session will provide an overview of the development process to adapt the Missouri curriculum for local public health professional in NYS.

The session will highlight the distinctive strategies used in the adaptation of the Missouri Evidence-based Public Health Course for a broader, more geographically diverse and decentralized public health workforce. The presenters will discuss major factors influencing the development process: 1) continuing education and workforce training resources, 2) funding resources for development process and regional training structure, 3) examples of evidence-based public health programs; and 4) unique team approach.

The goal of the Evidence-based Public Health course is to provide participants with the skills to apply science-based evidence to public health decision-making. It is hoped that this understanding will lead to more informed decisions affecting prevention and control of communicable and chronic diseases in New York communities.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the session, the participant in this session will be able to

1. Identify key strategies that strengthen evidence-based practice in New York.
2. Assess whether the strategies can be applied in their community.
3. List key resources that participants can access if they are interested in applying the strategies.

Keywords: Workforce, Training

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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