Workforce Development: Growing the Pipeline and Exploring Career Options
Recorded On: 10/25/2024
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The public health landscape evolves as it is shaped by new health challenges in society. This webinar will explore how the public health workforce can be developed to meet these demands and changes in an effective way. Participants will learn about opportunities and options for careers and internships. Students, faculty/program coordinators, and workplace supervisors will benefit from this webinar on how to prepare the public health workforce.
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify current trends and best practices for public health workforce development.
- Describe actionable strategies from improving recruitment and retention in public health roles.
- Assess resources for networking and for continuing education.
- Advocate for the profession.
HESPA II Competencies:
5.3.2 Use traditional, social, and emerging technologies and methods to mobilize support for policy, system, or environmental change.
7.2.3 Assess training needs.
7.3.4 Recruit qualified staff (including paraprofessionals) and volunteers.
8.3.4 Build relationships with other professionals within and outside the profession.
8.4.1 Explain the major responsibilities, contributions, and value of the health education specialist.
8.4.3 Advocate for professional development for health education specialists.
Sponsored by SOPHE, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1.00 total Category I contact education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available for this session is 0. Provider ID #98029 and Activity ID 01-716 DL.
Erin K. O'Neill, PhD, MCHES, CSCS
Associate Professor and Chairperson of Population Health & Exercise Science Department
New Jersey City University
Dr. Erin K. O'Neill is Associate Professor and Chairperson of Population Health & Exercise Science Department at New Jersey City University. Her interest is in improving the understanding of developing healthier educational environments and/or college campuses to assist transitioning young adults to becoming productive and inquisitive additions to a global society.
Kimberly Price, PhD, MCHES®, CPH (Moderator)
Associate Professor of Public Health and Director of the Master of Public Health Program
Lenoir-Rhyne University
Kimberly Price is an associate professor of public health and director of the Master of Public Health program. She has been on faculty at LR since the fall of 2014 and teaches in the areas of health promotion program planning and evaluation, epidemiology and community engagement. Prior to coming to LR, she worked for more than 15 years as a health education specialist in clinical and community settings. She has devoted her career to promoting wellness and understanding social determinants of health.
Price has coordinated programs at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the NJ War-Related Illness and Injury Center, as well as other projects with nonprofit agencies in urban communities. She currently serves as a Trustee on the board for the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) and has served on the board of directors for MountainTrue, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air and on the executive board for North Carolina SOPHE.
Her scholarly interests include reducing health inequities, addressing health literacy and program evaluation and assessment.
In 2023, she received the Roediger Distinguished Service Professorship, designated annually by the university president in recognition of distinguished service to the university, profession and community.