Wholey Douglas R, LaVenture Martin, Rajamani Sripriya, Kreiger Rob, Hedberg Craig, Kenyon Cynthia
Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Office of Health Information Technology, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, MN, United States.
Front Public Health. 2018 May 2;6:124. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00124. eCollection 2018.
We describe a master's level public health informatics (PHI) curriculum to support workforce development. Public health decision-making requires intensive information management to organize responses to health threats and develop effective health education and promotion. PHI competencies prepare the public health workforce to design and implement these information systems. The objective for a Master's and Certificate in PHI is to prepare public health informaticians with the competencies to work collaboratively with colleagues in public health and other health professions to design and develop information systems that support population health improvement. The PHI competencies are drawn from computer, information, and organizational sciences. A curriculum is proposed to deliver the competencies and result of a pilot PHI program is presented. Since the public health workforce needs to use information technology effectively to improve population health, it is essential for public health academic institutions to develop and implement PHI workforce training programs.
我们描述了一个硕士水平的公共卫生信息学（PHI）课程，以支持劳动力发展。公共卫生决策需要密集的信息管理，以组织应对健康威胁，并开展有效的健康教育和促进工作。PHI能力使公共卫生劳动力能够设计和实施这些信息系统。PHI硕士学位和证书的目标是培养具备与公共卫生及其他卫生专业同事协作设计和开发支持人群健康改善的信息系统能力的公共卫生信息学家。PHI能力源自计算机、信息和组织科学。本文提出了一个传授这些能力的课程，并展示了一个PHI试点项目的成果。由于公共卫生劳动力需要有效利用信息技术来改善人群健康，公共卫生学术机构开展和实施PHI劳动力培训项目至关重要。
