Council on Linkages Update
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Below is the Council on Linkages Update for October 2015. Please feel free to use all or part(s) of this update in your organization's newsletter or other communications. |
Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals to be Featured in APHA Annual Meeting Workforce Development Session
Join the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting next week in Chicago for a public health workforce development session highlighting the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies). On Monday, November 2nd from 8:30-10:00am in the McCormick Place Convention Center, Room W175a, the Public Health Foundation is hosting Navigating the Seas of Public Health Workforce Development: What Every Practitioner and Academic Needs to Know (Session 3011.0), featuring a panel of experts discussing national workforce development efforts guiding the future of public health. Moderated by Council on Linkages Chair C. William Keck, MD, MPH, and including representatives of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health's Framing the Future Task Force, the Council on Education for Public Health, and the de Beaumont Foundation, this session will explore new initiatives within public health workforce development, their connections to the Core Competencies, and how all of these initiatives are aligning and contributing to developing an even stronger public health workforce for the future. Questions from the field will guide the session, and audience discussion is encouraged. For more information about the session or to share your question for the speakers in advance, please email Janelle Nichols at [email protected]. |
Connect with the Council on Linkages at the APHA Annual Meeting
Making plans for next week's American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting? Set aside time to learn more about Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) initiatives! In addition to being featured in the public health workforce development session, Navigating the Seas of Public Health Workforce Development: What Every Practitioner and Academic Needs to Know (Session 3011.0), the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) will be discussed in the 20-minute presentation, New Tools for Using the 2014 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. This presentation will be held in the McCormick Place Convention Center, Room W179b, on Wednesday, November 4th from 1:10-1:30pm (Session 5157.0) and will highlight resources and tools that have been developed since the release of the 2014 version of the Core Competencies. More information about the Core Competencies, the Academic Health Department (AHD) Learning Community, and other Council on Linkages initiatives will also be available throughout the annual meeting at the Public Health Foundation's exhibit booth, #820, in the APHA Public Health Expo. Council on Linkages staff will be at the exhibit booth on Sunday, November 1st from 2-3:30pm and 4:30-5:30pm; Monday, November 2nd from 12-2:30pm; and Tuesday, November 3rd from 10:30-11:30am and 1-3pm to answer any questions. Prior to the APHA Annual Meeting, inquiries about Council on Linkages participation may be sent to Janelle Nichols at [email protected]. |
Crosswalk of the 2014 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals and the Essential Public Health Services Now Available
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Activities of the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice are supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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