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UNC certificate program in core public health concepts: lessons learned.

Mary V Davis1, Claudia Plaisted Fernandez, Janet Porter

  • 1North Carolina Institute for Public Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Mary_Davis@unc.edu

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice : JPHMP
|April 15, 2006
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Area of Science:

  • Public Health Education
  • Workforce Development

Background:

  • Public health workers require foundational knowledge in core public health sciences.
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health developed a certificate program to address this need.
  • The program targets professionals in state and local public health agencies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the characteristics of applicants to the Certificate in Core Public Health Concepts program.
  • To evaluate student performance and graduate satisfaction within the program.

Main Methods:

  • Review of demographic, educational, job classification, and workplace data for 273 applicants over three years.
  • Assessment of student academic performance (grades).
  • Collection of initial data on graduate satisfaction.

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Main Results:

  • The applicant pool was predominantly female.
  • Applicants represented diverse roles, including public health agency workers (19%), public health system workers (64%), and others (17%).
  • Most students achieved high pass or pass grades, and initial graduate satisfaction was positive.

Conclusions:

  • The findings inform strategies for training the public health workforce.
  • The certificate program appears effective in meeting the educational needs of public health professionals.