251560 CDC's workforce programs and the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Friday, June 24, 2011 : 10:50 AM

Patricia Drehobl, RN, MPH , Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
     
The Affordable Care Act is allowing CDC to expand cross-cutting workforce programs including experiential fellowships and continuous training and development for the current workforce. CDC's fellowship programs recruit and train professionals in the field of public health, assigning trainees annually to CDC headquarters or to state and local health departments, where they supplement workforce gaps and provide frontline service in epidemiology, informatics, laboratory sciences, and public health problems and emergencies, and facilitating integration of public health with the health care system for improved community health.

Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership

Learning Objectives:
Describe CDC's c ross-cutting public health workforce programs, including experiential fellowships, which support the work of state/local health departments in improving health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I oversee policy and programmatic issues regarding public health workforce programs for CDC's Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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