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Session: Addressing the Impending Public Health Workforce Shortage
4102.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Addressing the Impending Public Health Workforce Shortage
This session will provide insight into current approaches to enumerating sectors of the public health workforce, and examples of and suggestions for public health workforce training programs.
Learning Objectives: Describe public health workforce needs Describe challenges to enumerating the public health workforce Describe programs developed to train the existing workforce or increase the future public health workforce
Facilitator(s):Gillian Silver, MPH
12:30 PMEnumeration of the public health nutrition workforce
Alexa M. George, MPH, RD, Susanne Gregory, MPH, Denise Ferris, RD, LD, DrPH, Betsy Haughton, EdD, RD, LDN
12:45 PM   Planning for the future of public health: Assessment of Michigan's public health workforce
Angela J. Beck, MPH, CHES, Matthew L. Boulton, MD, MPH, Erin E. Rothney, MPH, JoLynn P. Montgomery, PhD, MPH, Jean C. Chabut, BSN, MPH
1:00 PM   Examples of quality improvement training for the public health workforce: Lessons from MLC-2
Lee Thielen, MPA, Leslie M. Beitsch, MD, JD
1:15 PM   Zero Hour: The use of technology to train the public health workforce
Suzet McKinney, MPH (DrPh Cand), Christine Kosmos, RN, BSN, Kevin Harvey, Theresa Browley
1:30 PM   Proposal for the creation of the United States Public Health Medical College
Leana Wen, MD, Christopher P. McCoy, MD, Paul Wright
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Academic Public Health Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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