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

Abstract #120700

Janise Richards, MS, MPH, PhD, Office of Workforce and Career Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E91, Atlanta, GA 30333, 404-498-3612, jrichards@cdc.gov

For public health practice to become more efficient and effective, public health practitioners need timely, quality information. To give public health practitioners the ability to critically assess and effectively implement information technology, the integration of public health informatics skills and knowledge into their educational experiences is necessary. But most public health practitioners have no formal training in informatics and only recently has informatics training has become available to them. Given the necessity of meeting all public health educational requirements, some programs are opting to provide a public health informatics overview course and integrating informatics principles into other public health disciplines training. Other schools and graduate programs in public health are partnering with other schools and programs to offer specialized informatics training. A few public health informatics training programs have developed innovative instructional methodologies and learning systems to accommodate public health practitioner?s work commitments. The belief that public health informatics training is essential to public health is held by many public health educators; how it is accomplished continues to develop

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the focus and content areas of public health informatics training programs
• Describe instructional methodologies and learning systems used in public health informatics training programs
• Explain the importance informatics training to public health practitioners.

Keywords: Public Health Informatics, Health Information Systems

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.