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    Public Health Workforce Development: A Call to Action

    Project Overview

    3rd Funding Cycle Development Award
         Project Start Date: 7/1/2007
         Project End Date: 6/30/2008 - No Cost Extension Through 12/31/2008

    Project Goal Statement: This project will develop a deliberate and transparent collaborative plan between statewide public health system partners to advance the state health plan system priority of a diverse, sufficient, and competent public health workforce.

    Award Amount: $50,000

    Community Partners:
    Primary Community Partner: Wisconsin Public Health Association
    Additional community partner organization names:

    • Wisconsin Area Health Education Center
    • Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards
    • Wisconsin Division of Public Health

    Academic Partners:
    Primary Academic Partner: Peter Layde, MD, MSc, Department of Population Health
    Additional Academic Partners:

    • Kirsten Gruebling, MPH, Department of Population Health
    • Jenny Her, Department of Population Health

    Project Progress Summary Reports:
         Project Progress Report Summary July 2007 - December 2008
         Project Final Report Summary     

    Affiliated Web Pages:
        Wisconsin Area Health Education Center
        Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards
        Wisconsin Division of Public Health
        Wisconsin Public Health Association

    Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by project partners)

    • Call to Action Report - distributed at:
      • WPHA-WALHDAB Conference (July 2008)
      • PHN Conference
      • PHN Conference – Academic-Practice Linkage Dinner
      • WPHA Day at the Capitol
      • Minority Health Leadership Group
      • Public Health Council
      • Healthiest Wisconsin 2020 Strategic Leadership Team
      • DPH Regional Office Directors
      • EdTRAC meeting, DPH Bureaus
      • Tribal Health Centers
      • Federally Qualified Health Centers
      • Area Health Education Centers
      • PHET