Strengthening Local Health Department Informatics Capacity Through Advocacy, Education, and Workforce Development

Strengthening Local Health Department Informatics Capacity Through Advocacy, Education, and Workforce Development

Our ability to capture data and create linkages among disparate sources of information has increased exponentially in the digital age. When harnessed and lever-aged to its full potential, the wealth of information we have about our communities has the potential to greatly improve population health outcomes. To do so, local health department (LHD) leaders must effectively use information and inf...

Strengthening health workforce capacity through work-based training

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Although much attention has been given to increasing the number of health workers, less focus has been directed at developing models of training that address real-life workplace needs. Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) with funding support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed an eight-month modular, in-service work-based...

Editorial: International Partnerships for Strengthening Health Care Workforce Capacity: Models of Collaborative Education

Reflections on Health Workforce Development; Comment on “Health Professional Training and Capacity Strengthening Through International Academic Partnerships: The First Five Years of the Human Resources for Health Program in Rwanda”

This commentary addresses the statement that “the authors believe that the HRH [Human Resources for Health] Program can serve as a model for other initiatives that seek to address the shortage of qualified health professionals in low-income countries and strengthen the long-term capacity of local academic institutions.” I adopt the position of the devil’s advocate and ask whether a country, wit...

Strengthening the capacity of local health agencies through community-based assessment and planning.

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the effectiveness of the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH) in building competency in essential environmental health services and renewing efforts to engage the community in problem solving. Competency and community engagement have been identified by environmental health practitioners as important to meet new threats to public h...