Public Health Core and Concentration Competencies
Assessment and Analytical Skills
Demonstrates the ability to:
- Assess the health status of populations and their related determinants of health and illness.
- Describe the characteristics of a population-based health problem.
- Reference public health data sources and identify gaps in information.
- Make community-based inferences using qualitative and quantitative data.
- Collect, store, retrieve and analyze valid and reliable qualitative and quantitative data.
- Synthesize demographic, statistical, programmatic and scientific information.
Policy Development and Program Planning Skills
- Uses a global perspective to critique public health programs, research, policies, and health care systems.
- Contributes to collaborative program planning and evaluation processes, including implementing, monitoring, and evaluating public health programs.
Communication Skills
- Communicates public health information effectively to multiple audiences.
- Presents (orally and in writing) qualitative and quantitative data to address scientific, political, ethical and social public health issues.
Cultural Competency Skills
- Compares across countries cultural and social paradigms underlying public health initiatives.
- Describes cultural and linguistic characteristics and literacy levels of populations to be served.
Leadership and Management Skills
Demonstrates the ability to:
- Prepare a programmatic budget.
- Describe the organizational structure and policies of a public health agency.
- Adhere to an organization’s policies and procedures.
- Identify strategies to address the public health needs of a defined population.
- Uses individual and team learning opportunities for personal and professional development.
Community Dimensions of Practice Skills
- Systematically maps stakeholders who constitute the community linkages and relationships essential to involve in public health initiatives.
- Identifies community assets including governmental and non-governmental resources in the delivery of public health services.
Public Health Sciences Skills
- Identifies the core contributions of the basic public health sciences (including biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health, health services administration, and social and behavioral health sciences).
- Describes the scientific evidence related to public health issues through information retrieval from a variety of text and electronic sources and discusses the limitations of research findings.
- Describes the laws, regulations, policies, and procedures for the ethical conduct of research.
