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ASPH Resource Center Activities

• Issues Discussed
• Submission of requests for training to ASPH
• Recommendations for Action
• Old products should be archived
• POC in each center for resources
• Info to be submitted to resource center by
  electronic submission to be reviewed by ASPH
• ASPH to follow up if additional information would
  be needed
• Template ASPH to develop a draft form (combining
  reporting form and the existing TRAIN form to
  look at fields), all Centers would be allotted
  time to review form, new form would be
  established.
• Keep in mind the work of the exemplar groups to
  reduce duplication of efforts
• Previous ACPHPs are asked to update existing
  information for the time being

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ASPH Resource Center Activities

• Tabled discussion of evaluation
• Proposed that we link summary reports to the
  resource center
• Concerns about confidentiality
• Suggestions for users to evaluate one course
  against another
• Collect feedback
• May be something for an evaluators group to
  consider
• Need to establish common evaluation measures to
  allow for comparisons against different training
  programs
• Provide links to URLs to avoid repeated updates
• Former SCPHPs are already reporting on similar
  information
• No need to recreate the system

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Network Coordination and Communication

• Issues Discussed
• Why and what do we need to communicate?
• Reacting to admin issues
• Sharing knowledge and inter/intragroup processes
• To report
• Who PI group, coordinators group, evaluators
  group, entire network, by function, by region
• Information sharing one way communication v.
  what needs to be discussed
• Continue calls on a trial for 6 months
• Evaluators exemplar group may replace need for
  separate evaluator call
• MegaCalls would be one-way with Q/A time at the
  end
• Recommendations
• Newsletter

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Network Coordination and Communication

• Quarterly marketing tool
• Need for face-to-face meetings in addition to
  calls
• May be helpful to have in varying locations
• Showcase meeting held in conjunction with
  ASTHO/NACCHO
• Additional Comments
• PI calls may be directed to specific topics to
  reduce the numbers of calls that people really
  need to spend their time on
• Keep the ability to communicate as a priority on
  calls
• Have a committee to set the agenda for PI calls
• Keeping this informal may allow for additional
  collaboration
• Exemplar groups may not cover the needs that the
  evaluators group was to address this network
  may need to be re-established
• Listservs havent proved as beneficial

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Defining Brokering Network Expertise

• Issue discussed
• What does brokering mean linking resources with
  those that need it primarily those in
  state/local agencies
• How do we do this look at the past CDC, ASPH
  have received requests for referrals
• Do we formalize this KISS, not sure what the
  volume of requests received will look like may
  need to determine simple protocols for doing this
• Closest geographic service to the entity
  requesting services be referred first, then any
  additional centers would provide input
• Volume is unknown once CDC project officers
  become aware of the resource the volume should
  increase, ASTHO will also be eager to put this to
  use
• Recommendations
• Create a searchable database include information
  on trainings, list of centers and expertise of
  each center

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Defining Brokering Network Expertise

• May also want to include individual expertise
• List of ready services a Center could provide
  fairly quickly
• Be updateable by individual centers
• How do we define expertise?
• Centers can decide by themselves, and the market
  will determine the use of expertise
• Selection criteria degrees/training that
  individuals possess and faculty appointment (NOT
  RECOMMENDATIONS)
• PI within the Center serves as a gatekeeper
• Additional Comments
• Concern that faculty appointment has such weight
  practice experience loses weight that way
• Concern that degrees/training carry such weight

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Defining Brokering Network Expertise

• Anyone who comes to centers for expertise should
  come with funding
• This is not part of the guided work
• Considered as part of ASPHs workplan
• Getting others to pay for your services outside
  of your existing planned work
• Negotiations of services and finances would be
  between Centers and agencies requesting services
• Issue of combined expertise (interdisciplinary)
• Requires blended expertise in terms of
  credentials and combined excellence, knowledge,
  and practice expertise

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Monitoring CPHP Contribution in Building Public
Health Preparedness Workforce

• Issues Discussed
• How should monitoring be done?
• Look at individuals graduating U-based credit
  programs/degree programs
• Track them through the pipeline to see what
  professions they choose
• Do a retrospective study, focus on people in
  state/local health departments and consider where
  they got their training from
• Did individuals education include preparedness
  training?
• May be obtained through U surveys
• More difficult identifying curricula in the
  graduate schools, and tracking individuals based
  on such
• Recommendations
• Several scenarios that could be done
• Prospective collection of data on graduates
• Survey of people currently in practice jobs

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Monitoring CPHP Contribution in Building Public
Health Preparedness Workforce

• Nebraska currently tracks graduates for target
  access important for education development,
  policy, workforce development issues
• NIOSH has a long history of tracking graduates in
  academic/continuing ed programs
• Report back to trainingship programs
• Additional Issues
• Is this really what we want to do?
• Forces outside of the U system drive people
  outside of public health, such studies may
  reflect more poorly on us than we want it to do
• Companion studies to address the whys should
  be done as well
• Comments
• Concern that public health isnt a licensed
  field, more difficult to follow people
• Consider what level of specificity is really
  needed here
• Tap into alumni associations for assistance
  through surveys

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Monitoring CPHP Contribution in Building Public
Health Preparedness Workforce

• Other questions to ask
• Who attends those programs?
• What about public health system workers (not
  just agency workers)?