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2005
Year
in Review
This
year, NCCPHP has seen some amazing numbers in terms of the audience
we have served with our training products.
To
encourage this growth, we began producing two new electronic newsletters:
the Monthly Update, which is sent to registered
users of the Training Web Site and features links to the newest
trainings each month; and the Center Spotlight,
sent to NCCPHP partners that highlights our accomplishments each
quarter.
NCCPHP
now offers more than 140 online modules available free to registered
users on our Training Web Site, with 29 new trainings added
just this year. The Training Web Site has 8,349 registered users
in all 50 states and 136 foreign countries who have completed
11,167 trainings for free continuing education credits. The number
of registrations and training completions each month have both
been steadily rising this year, with the number of completions
surpassing the number of registrations in April 2005. As of December
2005, 14% of users have completed more than 6 trainings at the
NCCPHP Training Web Site.
NCCPHP completed our second volume of publication of FOCUS
on Field Epidemiology, featuring topics on study design, interviewing
techniques, forensic epidemiology, and others. There are currently
2,608 subscribers to the bimonthly periodical, but based on a
survey of these subscribers, many users pass along or share the
publication, putting our actual reach at 2,904 to 9,374 users.
The
NCCPHP Lifelong Learning Initiative is growing, with 16
North Carolina counties now participating. The workforce development
system at PublicHealthPreparedness.org
now contains 9523 registered users who have completed an assessment
of their training needs. Based on this information, all 16 lifelong
learning counties have received assistance from NCCPHP in creating
a customized training plan, and public health employees have completed
295 trainings available through the system.
New
programs this year include the Online Certificate in Field
Epidemiology, which enrolled its first cohort of 70 students
this fall, and the Symposium Series for Public Health Preparedness,
featuring national speakers on timely topics in public health
preparedness.
NCCPHP
has also expanded the reach of our services well beyond our state
and region. We conducted field epidemiology trainings in
El Paso, Tx., and Denver, Colo., and offered online training to
the State Department of Epidemiology in Kansas. NCCPHP also offered
our expertise in workforce development and assessments
to Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Texas, and other states.
We
implemented the CDC's Public Health Emergency Law course
for the first time ever at two locations in West Virginia, and
are planning similar courses for Tennessee and Nebraska, as well
as North Carolina, in the spring of 2006. We also offered consultation
on the Emergency Law course to Alabama, Massachusetts, Mid-America
Alliance, and Wyoming.
NCCPHP's
Team Epi-Aid program has also been widely used this year,
with 12 students volunteering 490 hours in service to state and
local public health agencies. In 2005, Team Epi-Aid projects included
conducting interviews for a study of health effects of recreational
water exposure at Falls Lake Recreation Area, assistance with
an outbreak of salmonella in Mitchell County, technical assistance
with communicable disease data analysis in Randolph County, and
assisting with a rapid needs assessment in Florida following Hurricane
Wilma.
NCCPHP
also created a new resource for trainers in 2005, titled "E
is for Epi: Epidemiology Basics for Non-Epidemiologists,"
which features a facilitator's guide and CD-ROM with ready-to-present
trainings on basic epidemiology topics. We distributed nearly
3,500 copies of "E is for Epi" to individuals across
the world, with requests coming from locations as far away as
South Africa and Vietnam. Some recipients requested additional
copies to share with colleagues, and hundreds of recipients asked
to be added to the mailing list for any future materials we produce.
NCCPHP
was very pleased to publish 10 articles in peer-reviewed journals
and present 19 oral and poster abstracts at academic conferences
across the nation. We also exhibited our training products and
services at state public health association meetings in
West Virginia and Georgia, and continued our yearly exhibits in
Tennessee and North Carolina
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