Workforce
February 24, 2011 | Journal Article
PHSSR literature focuses on defining the public health workforce and educating and training the public health workforce.
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Follow RWJF at the 2011 APHA Annual Meeting
October 27, 2011 | Story
Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds and Bodies.
The Survive and Thrive Program
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article presents an overview of the Survive and Thrive Program, a training program designed to help new local health officials develop the knowledge and skills to succeed at their work.
Public Health Financial Management Competencies
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The public health financial management workforce lacks the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to uphold its professional responsibilities. This article details newly established professional competencies for the public health financial management profession.
Workshop Seeks Effective Ways to Apply Ethical Frameworks to Public Health Practice; Presentations Published
November 11, 2008 | Program Result Report
The National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Center for Law, Ethics, and Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health hosted a one-day Workshop on Ethics in Public Health Practice and Preparedness.
Getting Down to Business
May 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2003, the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Foundation) administered a pilot educational program to improve the management competency of public health professionals and the effectiveness of their agencies in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
Committee Urges Instruction in Informatics, Genomics, Ethics for Public Health Professionals
August 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The Institute of Medicine developed a framework for how education, training and research in schools of public health could be strengthened to meet the needs of future public health professionals as they enter careers to improve public health.
Help Wanted
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In 1999, the Public Health Institute, Berkeley, Calif., convened a national forum, Development of the 21st Century Public Health Workforce: Leadership, Commitment, and Action and oversaw related publications.
Identifying Needed New Public Health Skills, Along with Barriers to Achieving Them
November 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Investigators from Columbia University School of Nursing defined the knowledge and skills most needed by four groups of public health professionals to respond to changes in the US health system.
Consumers and Public Health Representatives Gain a Voice at a National Meeting
December 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
RWJF provided scholarship funds to include consumer and public health representation at a national meeting on creating a broad-based, consumer-oriented, health information organization called the Valeo Initiative.