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Expanding the Public Health Workforce by Fostering Interdisciplinary Training of Community Design Professionals

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

Christopher Kochtitzky , Division of Emergency & Environmental Health Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
This presentation will describe the challenges facing public health professionals, including a shrinking traditional public health workforce and emerging challenges in areas of work outside those covered by traditional public health training. The presentation will then describe how the creation of the Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse will help address these challenges through intersectoral training for professionals in the areas of planning, architecture, transportation engineering, and health impact assessment. The current workforces in public health and community design need new and expanded types and means training and cross-training in order to address such emerging challenges to community health and quality of life as the obesity epidemic and the aging of the population.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related education
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Identify areas where the public health workforce is not staffed adequate to emerging challenges. Identify areas where traditional public health training is incomplete and/or authorities and interventions are needed that extend outside traditional public levers into areas of community design, land use, and transportation.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to give this presentation because, as an urban planner in public health, I have worked at the intersection of community design and population health for 20+ years. In addition I am adjunct faculty in the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and have taught classes on Public Health and the Built Environment.
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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