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Recorded presentation

Christopher G. Atchison, MPA, Tanya Uden-Holman, PhD, Laurie Walkner, MA, RN, and Dawn Gentsch, MPH, CHES. College of Public Health, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, E220-D GH, Iowa City, IA 52242, 319-384-5489, tanya-uden-holman@uiowa.edu

The emerging threats from pandemic influenza, zoonotic disease, and chronic conditions in the face of an aging and poorly distributed public health workforce, minimally equipped to address serious issues of access and health disparity is driving a vigorous effort to strengthen the training, education and credentialing of that workforce. Inherent in the achievement of this objective is the need to understand both where the public health workforce is located and how well they are prepared to meet their challenges. In order to address this challenge, public health education and training programs must adopt new and sophisticated means of enabling workforce assessment, linkage to needed curriculum, and valid evaluation of both worker achievement and curriculum quality.

The University of Iowa Institute for Public Health Practice is using its learning management system, developed in association with the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Iowa Department of Public Health, as a web-based utility to coordinate each of these elements in a comprehensive systems approach to public health workforce development. This presentation will describe the components of the learning management system and their operationalization through a web-based portal at www.prepareiowa.com. It will also provide examples of the system's utility as demonstrated through Public Health Ready applications in Iowa and Nebraska. This session will conclude with a projection of necessary next steps in the development of stronger support systems to meet the field's interest in public health credentialing.

Learning Objectives:

• • Define public health workforce objectives
• • List the components of a comprehensive
• learning management system
• • Describe the utilization of a learning
• management system to achieve workforce
• development objectives
• • Analyze utilization of the Prepare Iowa
• Learning Management System in the context of
• Public Health Ready
• • Discuss future applications of learning
• management systems for public health workforce
• development

Keywords: Certification, Competency

Related Web page: www.prepareiowa.com

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation