Rebuilding Public Health Infrastructure

Essential to rebuilding public health infrastructure is our workforce. To be effective in doing this, we must learn from historical training programs and more recent training activities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and apply those lessons to today’s critical needs. Read the latest post on the PHF Pulse blog to learn more and add your ideas for how we can rebuild and sustain our workforce for many years to come.

Remote Performance Improvement Services to Meet Your Organization’s Needs

PHF’s remote performance improvement services are helping health departments and other organizations reinvigorate their workforce development efforts and build skills in just a few weeks, while simplifying scheduling, eliminating travel planning, and reducing transportation costs. These quality improvement, performance management, and workforce development services are always geared toward the specific needs of your organization through customization and collaboration. Interested in exploring how PHF can meet your organization’s performance improvement needs? Contact Ron Bialek at [email protected].

Share Your Feedback on Draft Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals by August 15^th

A preliminary draft of proposed revisions to the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) is currently available for open comment. This draft aims to address feedback from the public health and population health community related to the concepts included in the Core Competencies, as well as to offer proposed changes to the structure of the competency set to make it easier to use. Feedback on this draft is welcome through August 15, 2021. Share your thoughts today and help shape the future direction of public health workforc​e development.

Building Community-Based COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Is your agency continuing to develop and implement COVID-19 contact tracing strategies to meet your community’s needs? PHF and Mathematica have teamed up to provide an interactive contact tracing dashboard that enables you to compare the demographic characteristics of contact tracers trained to serve your community with the demographics of your community. Access the contact tracing dashboard today to see where your communit​y stands.

PHF Welcomes Three New Board Members

PHF is excited to announce that Denise Fair, Vivian Singletary, and Joe Finkbonner have been elected to the PHF Board of Directors. Ms. Fair, Chief Public Health Officer for the Detroit Health Department; Ms. Singletary, Director of the Public Health Informatics Institute; and Mr. Finkbonner, former Executive Director, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, bring decades of public health experience and expertise to the Board. Learn more about PHF’s Board of Directors.

New CDC Course: Introduction to the Laboratory Information Management System & Other Information Systems

CDC’s new basic-level eLearning course, Introduction to the Laboratory Information Management System & Other Information Systems, provides an overview of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and other information systems that play a key role in laboratory informatics. This course is designed for public health and clinical laboratory staff, including managers and leaders, and others interested in the role and importance of LIMS to the operation of the laboratory, and is approved for 1.5 contact hours of P.A.C.E.® credit. Start learning today.