Selected Contributions to Public Health
Training the Public Health Workforce
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Examples of achievements are summarized here and regularly updated. Achievements associated with CDC’s Winnable Battles are noted. This term describes public health priorities having large-scale impact on health and for which effective strategies are known.
CDC Winnable Battles: Tobacco
Visit the Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond website
CDC Winnable Battles: Tobacco; Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity; Motor vehicle injuries; Teen pregnancy; HIV prevention
Information about purchasing the book is available on the PRC’s website
Since 1995, the University of Minnesota PRC has cosponsored (with the university’s Center for Adolescent Nursing) a Summer Institute on Adolescent Health for about 60 public health practitioners and graduate students each year. Consistent with earlier institutes, the 2010 institute, which addressed youth violence, included young people as teachers. Many of these youths participate in the center’s research and have become leaders in community peacemaking.
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The Healthy Aging Research Network includes seven PRCs that collaborate on research and dissemination. The network’s Research to Practice Symposia have addressed physical activity, depression, and environmental and policy change to benefit older adults. Now the network is sponsoring a 4-month online conference series on environmental and policy change for healthy aging. The event is attracting professionals from aging services, public health, planning, architecture, engineering, recreation, transportation, and health care.
Learn more about the network from its website
The Saint Louis University (with Washington University) PRC developed a training course to increase the capacity of public health professionals to practice evidence-based public health. From its development (in 1997) to 2004, the course was offered 20 times and reached nearly 500 public health professionals domestically and abroad. The course has been translated into Russian and Spanish and continues to be taught. In 2002, the course was recorded on a set of 16 CDs produced with exercises and case studies for self-study by people who cannot travel to a course location or prefer the self-study format (available from the PRC’s website
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