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5 Cross-Sector Workforce: National and Local Examples
5 Cross-Sector Workforce: National and Local Examples
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Bialek explained that the mission of PHF is to improve public health and population health practice to support healthier communities.3 He 1 This section summarizes information presented by Ron Bialek from PHF. The statements made are not endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Fifteen years ago, Bialek added, PHF created the TRAIN Learning Network in response to a need from state and local public health departments to find, access, and track training opportunities. The network has grown to more than 1.8 million users with 10 million courses completed.
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The process resulted in 57 competencies across 6 domains: community engagement, community health assessment, community health improvement planning and action, health equity and cultural awareness, systems thinking, and organizational planning and management. As Bialek explained, PHF got involved in developing population health competencies after providing public health competencies to hospital professionals at the Association for Community Health Improvement annual meeting.
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TRAIN already includes searchable competencies for public health professionals. The foundation is also exploring developing other training plans, similar to the social determinants of health training plan, for people who are not in public health or health care to help them identify what is most important for them to learn regarding population health.
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Other innovative program partners include the Institute for Alternative Futures, the Center for Creative Leadership, the Leadership Learning Community, the American Planning 4 This section summarizes information presented by Brian Smedley from NCHE and the RWJF Culture of Health Leaders Program. The statements made are not endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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The Culture of Health Leaders Program is a 3-year, intensive, advanced leadership development initiative that provides formal leadership training, professional coaching, and peer coaching. It challenges participants to conduct strategic, evidence-based work that changes conditions in organizations and communities.
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Spencer began with some brief history on the initiative.7 As she explained, about 3 years ago, the Bloomberg Philanthropies provided a $300 million gift to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in honor of the school's centennial. The funds were to address the recent decline in health expec 6 This section summarizes information presented by Michelle Spencer from the Bloom berg American Health Initiative.
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was focused on adolescent health and wanted to know how HUD's health and housing initiatives intersect with adolescent health and what federal-level policies impacting health she could help to inform. The final example was Haven Wheelock in Portland, Oregon, who worked with a nonprofit organization called Outside In, which ran the first publicly funded needle/syringe exchange program.
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Participating organizations identified other training needs, including leadership development, advocacy, media and communications, and program implementation. Organizations providing fellows could also receive funding directly through the program for specific public health projects.
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Shah provided several examples of domains for planning healthy communities. One example is whether communities are walk 8 This section summarizes information presented by Sagar Shah from APA.
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Shah provided some examples of its projects: creating healthy neighborhoods, the role of planners in health impact assessments, benefits of street-scale features, food systems and access to healthy foods, and access to physical activity locations. In recent years, APA's Planning and Community Health Center has also worked to focus on emerging issues, such as the impact of climate change on health and the role of planners, how gentrification impacts health, and how planners can play a role in housing policy.
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Partners include national membership organizations, federal agencies, foundations, universities, and local organizations. Shah closed by sharing a joint call to action to promote healthy communities of eight national organizations working at the intersection of built environment and health, including APA, the American Institute of Architects, the American Public Health Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the National Recreation and Park Association, the Urban Land Institute, and the Green Building Council.10 The goal is to have these organizations' local members come together in their own communities to talk about health and cross-sector partnership.
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Ricklin completed a "desktop health impact assessment" of a large hospital development where there were concerns about community safety due to increased traffic and other impacts. She used a health equity and social determinants of health lens to assess factors extending beyond increased access to quality health care.
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Ricklin began by asking Spencer how the Bloomberg American Health Initiative has changed the dialogue within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about what is public health. Spencer responded that one concrete impact of the initiative has been to demonstrate the need for more flexibility regarding the admission requirements of the School of Public Health.
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She pointed out that they hold about threequarters of health officer positions. Grande asked Shah for any examples of situations in which APA worked with preventive medicine physicians within health departments or outside of government.
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(Smedley) • The success of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative has pointed to the need for flexibility in considering the full range of credentials and experience that candidates bring, even when they lack formal public health experience.
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