| General interest in participating in this evidenced-based public health training series to build staff and organizational capacity to use proven and field-tested approaches to more efficiently and successfully plan, design, implement, communicate and evaluate initiatives. |
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| Prioritizing Programs and Policies – Understand approaches to prioritize public health issues at the community level. Possible areas/elements of focus may include: measure of burden (mortality, morbidity, years of life lost), quantifying preventability (potential effects of interventions), resources (cost of intervention, resources needed to implement). |
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| Health Literacy – Ability to differentiate between linguistic competence, cultural competency, and health literacy in public health practice communications. |
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| Community Engagement – Understand the use of basic concepts and skills involved in culturally appropriate community engagement and empowerment with diverse communities. |
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| Adapting Interventions – Understand how social, behavioral, environmental, and biological factors contribute to specific individual and community health outcomes. Understand considerations when exploring altering versus reinventing interventions and what are the most effective approaches. Examine how best to understand if an intervention can be modified to align with policy, systems and environmental (PSE) approaches. |
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| Health Equity – Learn how to differentiate among availability, acceptability, and accessibility of health care across diverse populations. Understand MDH’s Health Equity Recommendations, Center for Health Equity and its future direction. |
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| Quantifying the Issue – Understand how public health surveillance is an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data. Learn how Federal, State and Local agencies use public health surveillance data to describe and monitor health events, set priorities, and to assist in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health interventions and programs. |
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| Action Planning (with Community Organizations) – Understand best approaches to collaborate with community organizations to prioritize individual, organizational, and community concerns and resources for public health programs. Learn how the findings of a program evaluation and community assessment can be utilized in planning. Understand the value of logic models in program development, implementation, and evaluation. Learn best approaches to provide technical assistance to community organizations in action planning. |
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| Economic Evaluation – Understand differences between various types of economic evaluations: cost benefit, cost-utility, cost-effectiveness, ROI (return on investment). Learn when to use economic evaluation studies to justify, prioritize and implement interventions. |
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