Course Objective
- Describe how the federal government appropriates funding to public health agencies and other entities
- Describe the key challenges faced by health departments implementing federally funded programs
- Identify 3 strategies to overcome challenges and enhance efficiency in program implementation
Date: April 6, 2021
Presenter:
Jennifer McKeever, MSW, MPH
Founder and Principal of WE Public Health, LLC
&
Rishika Desai, MPH
Senior Analyst at the Association of State and Territorial Health Official (ASTHO)
In this month’s Log-in2Learn, Jennifer McKeever, MSW, MPH & Rishika Desai, MPH, discuss the complexities of public health bureaucracy and the best ways to navigate it. They start by talking about what these bureaucratic issues might look like, how the pandemic has impacted them and the type of problems they might create at different levels. Jennifer and Rishika go on to describe how the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) tried to assess this in their recent qualitative study and highlight some of the key findings and recommendations for overcoming administrative bottlenecks that slow down program implementation. Through a conversation with the audience on what difficulties they’ve experienced, our presenters try to determine the common root causes. Lastly, they share ways in which agencies have responded to these challenges, now and in the past, and guide us through the unique steps that research has helped identify as tools to solve at least some of the bureaucratic problems we face in public health.
Participants will learn the following:
- Describe how the federal government appropriates funding to public health agencies and other entities
- Describe the key challenges faced by health departments implementing federally funded programs
- Identify 3 strategies to overcome challenges and enhance efficiency in program implementation
