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PUBLIC HEALTH DATA STANDARDS CONSORTIUM ~ 2007 BUSINESS MEETING OF MEMBERS ~ October 2 -3, 2007, Hyattsville, MD Partnership to Enhance Public Health Informatics: First National Training Program in Public Health Informatics for Public Health Workforce Anna Orlova, Ph. D Executive Director

Partnership To Enhance Public Health Informatics Partners: n n Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Partnership To Enhance Public Health Informatics The Program is designed as a continued education of local, state and federal public health professionals in informatics methods and tools to strengthen public health workforce capacities in protecting the public’s health through the science and service in health information technology and informatics.

Partnership To Enhance Public Health Informatics Goals 1. Deliver general training in PHI to build an informed professional workforce for staffing public health agencies, and 1. Provide public health practitioners with the fundamental HIT and informatics knowledge and skills needed in the development of a Nationwide Health Information Network of interoperable clinical and public health information exchanges

Partnership To Enhance Public Health Informatics Our Program is tailored to: n Increase Public Health Informatics capacities at the local, state and federal levels and n Improve agencies IT infrastructure to adhere to ¨Operational Definition of a Local Public Health System ¨Core Public Health Functions and ¨Ten Essential Public Health Services

Partnership To Enhance Public Health Informatics Program Curriculum The curriculum will be developed in accordance with the CDC Core Competencies for Public Health Informatics.

Partnership To Enhance Public Health Informatics Program Format A combination of online and in-class delivery formats.

Partnership To Enhance Public Health Informatics Program Tracks: n General Training in PHI (PHI-GT)—Track 1—an introductory n General Public Health Informatician Certification Training Program (PHI-GC)—Track 2—an in-depth professional informatics- level course for a broad audience of public health practitioners; training program for public health practitioners involved in the development and operation of public health information systems; Will not be included due to the budget cut: n Senior Public Health Informatician Certification Training Program (PHI-SC)—Track 3—an advanced professional informatics-training program for senior public health officials involved in the strategic planning of adoption of HIT at public health agencies.

Program Organization

Program Organization Public Health Informatics Advisory Board Public Health Informatics experts from: n n CDC, national & international public health professional organizations national & international informatics professional organizations academic institutions. The Board will serve as a Forum to advance the Nation’s PHI agenda.

Program Organization Public Health Informatics Advisory Board n n n n n American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Minnesota Department of Health National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) Universite Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France

Program Organization Public Health Informatics Advisory Board (To Be Invited) American Public Health Association (APHA) n Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) n American Public Health Information Technology Association (NAPHIT) n American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) n International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) n European Association of Informatics Educators (EAIE) n

Program Organization Public Health Informatics Faculty Distinguished faculty team of n National experts in public health and clinical informatics n Founders of the field of public health informatics. Many of our faculty members are currently teaching both in-class and online PHI courses, so we will leverage existing PHI academic courses and curriculum to tailor them to the public health workforce needs.

Program Organization Public Health Informatics Course Directors Dr. Arthur Davidson (NACCHO) Dr. Laurence Hanrahan (CSTE) Dr. Martin La. Venture (ASTHO) Dr. Harold Lehmann (JHU) Dr. Anna Orlova (PHDSC/JHU) Dr. David Ross (PHII) Mr. David Stokes (NAPHIT) Dr. Walter Suarez (PHDSC)

Program Organization Public Health Informatics Faculty Dr. John Bridges (JHU) Mr. Robert Davis (NAHDO) Ms. Marjoree Greenberg (NCHS) Dr. Bryant Karras (Univ. of Washington) Dr. Kancharaksha (JHU) Dr. William Weiss (JHU)

Program Operation Program Director: Dr. Anna Orlova, PHDSC Joint PHDSC-NACCHO-ASTHO-JHU Executive Committee, Co-Chairs: Dr. Walter Suarez, PHDSC Dr. Miriam Alexander, Johns Hopkins Mid-Atlantic Public Health Workforce Training Center

Program Implementation The Program will be implemented using a phased approach with incremental development of in-class and online courses and on-going evaluation at the student, course, track and program levels.

Program Implementation We anticipate to train up to 2000 public health professional by 2012.