The Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center (IPHPC) is collaborating with other public health training programs in the development of a consensus approach for credentialing public health workers. Competency-based credentialing at as many as four levels is envisioned: (1) a basic introductory level for all public health workers who lack formal education and training in public health; (2) a ge...

Rwanda still suffers from communicable diseases which frequently lead to epidemics. In addition to other health workforce needs, Rwanda also lacks a public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems at the national and sub-national levels.In 2009 and 2010 the Rwanda Ministry of Health and its partners from the Government of Rwanda (GOR) as well as the Unit...

The U.S. surgeon general defined the national oral health care crisis in 2001 in Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General. The report concluded that the public infrastructure for oral health is not sufficient to meet the needs of disadvantaged groups and is disproportionately available depending upon certain racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors within the U.S. population. No...

Clarity of purpose is essential for a discipline and its profession: to advocate for public and political support; to attract and socialise students and novices. Three seminal contributions to this issue by Roger Hughes will help the international community of public health nutrition to benchmark its development as a subject and profession, related to and yet distinct from public health and hea...

In December 2006, Congress passed the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act to improve the nation's public health preparedness and response capabilities. It includes the role of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHPs) to establish a competency-based core curriculum and perform evaluation of impact on newly developed materials. The Heartland Center for Public Health Preparedness (HCPH...

OBJECTIVE The present paper describes a model for public health nutrition practice designed to facilitate practice improvement and provide a step-wise approach to assist with workforce development. DESIGN The bi-cycle model for public health nutrition practice has been developed based on existing cyclical models for intervention management but modified to integrate discrete capacity-building ...

OBJECTIVES In 2006, the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges reported that the shortage (≥ 1,500) of public health veterinarians is expected to increase tenfold by 2020. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Preventive Medicine Fellows conducted a pilot project among CDC veterinarians to identify national veterinary public health workforce concerns and pot...

NC Med J May/June 2010, Volume 71, Number 3 In 1972, the AHEC program was created as one mechanism to coordinate the many emerging federal and state programs related to health workforce development. By the 1980s these were bundled under the rubric of Title VII (referring to a subsection of the Public Health Service Act) for physicians, dentists, and other non-nursing health professions. The rec...