The Future of Public Health: Lesson #2—Build Tomorrow’s Public Health Workforce. Today.
Public Health Institute
PHI is dedicated to promoting health & equity for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world.
How do you turn a moment into a movement? Every day this week, we're sharing?the topline lessons learned from our 2021 Annual Report—and the path forward to doing things differently: better, faster, more effectively, more equitably, and for more people.?
The Future of Public Health:?Lesson #2—Build Tomorrow’s Public Health Workforce. Today.
From community centers providing emergency meal bags to pastors hosting vaccine clinics in the parking lot after services, community public health workers are preventing COVID today—and are ready to work in their communities and local health departments tomorrow on health issues including chronic disease prevention, climate change, health equity, racial justice and more. When health and public health professionals look like and come from the communities they serve, patients receive better care and experience better health outcomes.
Launching the Next Generation of Global Health Leaders
Our Alcohol Research Group (ARG), Sustaining Technical and Analytical Resources (STAR) and CDC/Global Health Fellows programs train and mentor new and emerging health leaders around the world, as well as build capacity and partner with in-country institutions to create lasting and sustainable change. PHI’s ARG training program mentors and trains pre-and post-doctoral scholars engaged in alcohol and drug-related research. More than 270 ARG fellows work around the globe as researchers, scientists and public health professionals. STAR and PHI/CDC global health leaders recruit, hire and provide tailored experiences for a diverse cohort of health professionals for more collaborative and innovative contributions to global health. Through placements in more than 35 countries, nearly 200 fellows and more than 55 interns in these programs have developed the skills, experiences and frameworks they need to advance their global health careers and to contribute to more sustainable, stable leadership within countries around the world. Fellows speak 15 languages, hold advanced degrees from 23 universities and have previously worked in over 40 countries.
Activating Young People for Medical & Health Careers
PHI’s FACES for the Future Coalition puts high schoolers—many first generation, low-income and/or from communities of color—on health career pathways, providing trainings and experience in major hospitals, clinics and more. FACES works in four states, in seven locations and at 14 different high schools, serving over 600 students every year. In 2021, the program pivoted to address COVID-19 with Public Health Youth Corps, an initiative that trains high school students as peer vaccine educators—working in 86 zip codes, in 21 languages, to educate their friends, families and communities about vaccines, masks, social distancing and more. FACES students have gone on to be community health workers, doctors, nurse practitioners and more, often returning to the communities where they grew up.
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Providing the Support that Leads to Success
We build and staff programs that create pathways to all levels of health careers, while also providing ongoing training, wrap-around services, mentoring and support—helping to create sustainable, community-based expertise. Tracing Health delivered 25,000 hours of staff training. PHI’s Communities RISE collaboration connected local groups, government and public health leaders for job opportunities and created a training hub where more than 1,800 community members nationwide accessed live and recorded online trainings in English and Spanish. PHI?Sustaining Technical and Analytical Resources participants benefit from a dedicated team of Learning and Performance Management specialists who provide them with individualized training plans intended to develop core competencies in global health, technical skills and achieve professional goals.
Valuing—& Reimbursing—Community Health Workers
Through a grant from the Blue Shield of CA Foundation, PHI’s Center to Advance Community Health & Equity and diverse stakeholders in San Joaquin and Sonoma counties are designing a more systemic, collaborative approach to engagement of Community Health Workers and Promotoras. A partnership with the Pathways Community Hub Institute supports teams in multiple states using an evidence-informed strategy and incentive payment structure for Community Health Workers, linking people to support services to be reimbursed by CalAIM.
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Médico de Familia. Dirección de Proyectos en Salud Comunitaria y Promoción de la Salud. Investigador independiente.
2 年Y en Latinoamérica el camino de los liderazgos probablemente implique algunas singularidades: dado el sistema político insaturado, la gran inequidad existente y el modo que se hacen operativos la idea de un sistema de salud, probablemente los nuevos lideres deban estar comprometidos con ideas menos confortables que las que usualmente circulan en el campo de la salud publica como disciplina; lo que digo es que es necesario una real abogacía por parte de los lideres en fenómenos que sabemos son trascendentes (fragmentación, inequidad, corrupción, enfermedades desatendidas, dialogo con las comunidades) y ser conscientes que esto puede implicar algún grado de tensión,
Médico de Familia. Dirección de Proyectos en Salud Comunitaria y Promoción de la Salud. Investigador independiente.
2 年en la construcción de una nueva fuerza de trabajo es necesario tambien destacar el rol que tienen las comunidades. Que los equipos de salud publica dediquen tiempo a construir capacidad comunitaria es un elemento esencial y esto implica no solamente nuevas destrezas y conocimientos, sino una ética de trabajo (recordemos que existe una tendencia en programas basados en economía del comportamiento en Latinoamérica que éticamente implica disminuir la autonomía de las comunidades) que cree en que existe una riqueza no explorada en las comunidades fundamentalmente las mas vulnerables. Para el caso de los trabajadores comunitarios de salud en terreno el entrenamiento en destrezas especificas para empoderar a las comunidades (en vez de un exceso de actividades de educación sin reflexión critica o recolección de datos) seria un camino certero en ese sentido.
Global Multisectoral Portfolio | Impact | Strategy | Partnerships | Data & Evidence | Sustainability | Implementation & Technical Assistance | Applied Research, Evaluation | Enterprise Leadership
2 年Yes, yes, yes, yes! Community health workers (and contact tracers are CHWs) can be the first line of public health information, guidance, referrals, and support in every town, city, village, county, tribal land across the nation. They are an evidence based approach to improved and equitable health outcomes
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2 年Please include a Disability and a Rare disease section to these programs. They are needed, and usually left out. Please reach out for ideas, etc. #RAREsiesRule #EducationMatters #InclusiveMatters