Under date of August 1968, the American Dental Association issued a statement titled, "Fluoride Tablets in a Community Program," pointing o~t the shortcomings of tablet programs which tend to make such programs unsuitable as a public health measure. Considerable detail is given on the Clifton program. The attached copy of a recent letter from the New Jersey State Commissioner of Health also ver...

1CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2Acute Disease Epidemiology Section, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; 3Syndromic Surveillance Project, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; 4Health Information Systems Section, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; 5Epidemiology Section, Georgia Department of Public Heal...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics (CoE) program was established to advance the research and practice of public health informatics through several collaborative efforts (1). The CoE program supports the development, translation, and dissemination of informatics knowledge; and provides expertise to public health professionals t...

David M Gamm, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, McPherson Eye Research Institute, Waisman Center Stem Cell Research Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Waisman Center, Room T609, 1500 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705, USA M Joseph Phillips, and Waisman Center Stem Cell Research Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health...

1 RN. Ph.D. Master’s student, Graduate Program in Public Health Nursing, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 2 RN. Ph.D. Master’s student, Graduate Program in Public Health Nursing, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 3 RN, Ph.D., Professor, Maternal...

In 2008, the faculty of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis designed a Master of Public Health program centered on transdisciplinary problem solving in public health. We have described the rationale for our approach, guiding principles and pedagogy for the program, and specific transdisciplinary competencies students acquire. We have explained how transdisciplinary content ha...

This article describes an initiative to develop and implement a competency-based credentialing program for public health managers and administrators that is linked with practice performance standards for local public health systems. The Illinois Public Health Administration Certification Board represents an innovative model for credentialing public health workers, placing equal value on compete...

dental surgeons working in public sector have an important role to play in school dental health pro-gram to reinstitute the oral and dental health of growing population of india. even though the oral health policy was drafted in india in 1995, it was not implemented till this date (1). it is im-portant to enhance the knowledge about good oral health in teachers and parents by caring out worksho...

BACKGROUND Since the 9/11 attack and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the development of qualified and able public health leaders has become a new urgency in building the infrastructure needed to address public health emergencies. Although previous studies have reported that the training of individual leaders is an important approach, the systemic and scientific training model need fur...

The Management Academy for Public Health is a team-based training program jointly offered by the School of Public Health and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This 9-month program teaches public health managers how to better manage people, information, and finances. Participants learn how to work in teams with community partners, and how to th...