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Strengthening Public Health Through Collaborative Efforts for Public Health Practitioner Career Development
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Lydia R. Frass, PhD, MPH
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Office of Public Health Practice, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC
Lillian U. Smith, DrPH, MPH, CHES
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Director, Office of Practice and Community Engagement and SC Public Health Consortium, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC
Greg Hand, PhD, MPH
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Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
The objective of this presentation is to describe the process involved in developing and implementing a collaborative partnership to support public health practitioners in strengthening and maintaining their discipline competencies and public health skills. Through an academic partnership, the South Carolina Public Health Training Center (SC PHTC) is working with South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (SC DHEC) and Arnold School of Public Health to support the development of public health practitioners. SC PHTC aims to strengthen the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competencies of the public health workforce. SC PHTC serves as an advisor to DHEC regarding how best to use and disseminate workforce assessment results to develop employees, identify trainings, minimize employees’ skill-gaps, and focus on strengthening public health competencies. In return, SC governmental public health professionals serve as mentors to current public health students to improve job readiness. SC PHTC staff identifies, tracks, and evaluate students’ public health experiential learning opportunities through an online system called the Opportunity Manager. The Opportunity Manager pairs students with job and practicum opportunities within DHEC and the school of public health. The collaborative partnership provides students the chance to be mentored by practitioners and provide real-life application of public health theories and models. With SC PHTC efforts, current and future public health professionals are prepared for a protean career in public health. These process methods offer a unique approach that will support and strengthen public health competencies and skills of current and future public health professionals.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Learning Objectives:
Identify key methods and best practices for creating a symbiotic relationship between governmental public health agencies and school of public health to strengthen and improve the skills and competencies of the public health workforce.
Discuss the impact of connecting current public health professionals, practitioners and students to strengthen public health and increase job readiness for students.
Keyword(s): Workforce, Public Health Curricula & Competencies
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Workforce Development Associate and am qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have designed and administered the state public health workforce assessment to identify skills gaps, training needs and assess public health professionals level of competence in relation to the Council of Linkages' Core Public Health Competencies. Additionally, I have worked on multiple collaborative learning projects with the state governmental public health agency to support practitioners' professional development.
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.
