Course Objective
- Describe the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals.
- Identify changes made in the 2021 version of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals.
- Discuss how the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals can be used to support the public health workforce.
Date: February 1st, 2022
Presenter:
Kathleen Amos, MLIS
Director, Academic/Practice Linkages
Public Health Foundation
In this month’s Log-In Learn, Kathleen Amos, Director of the Academic and Practice Linkages for the Public Health Foundation, presents the newly revised Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. She introduces the Core Competencies as a longstanding initiative of the PHF’s Council on Linkages between academia and public health practice, in an effort to synthesize the foundational or cross cutting skills for public health professionals. She presented an overview of their usage, including Healthy People 2030, the Public Health Accreditation Board, and the TRAIN Learning Network. She explained that revision included two open comment periods, but feedback is always welcome, including after the webinar. She reviewed the main feedback received, including requests for better harmonization, expanded content on certain topic areas (especially health equity and management and finance), and increased ease of use, and explained how each of these were addressed. She concluded by sharing resources and tools, training, and assistance for implementation of the updated Core Competencies.
Participants will learn about the following:
- Describe the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals.
- Identify changes made in the 2021 version of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals.
- Discuss how the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals can be used to support the public health workforce.
