Kirkcaldy Robert D, Biggers Bradley, Bonney Wilfred, Gordon Jeffrey, Yassine Brianne, Crawford Brandi, Papagari Sangareddy Sridhar, Franzke Laura, Bernstein Kyle T
Division of Workforce Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Kirkcaldy, Mr Biggers, Dr Bonney, Dr Gordon, Dr Yassine, Ms Crawford, Dr Franzke, and Dr Bernstein); United States Public Health Service, Rockville, Maryland (Dr Kirkcaldy); and Office of Science Quality and Library Services, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Papagari Sangareddy).
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2025;31(2):263-269. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000002048. Epub 2024 Sep 25.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed governmental public health's outdated information technology and insufficient data science and informatics workforce capacity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) is well positioned to strengthen public health data science and informatics workforce capacity.
Established in 1996, PHIFP is a 2-year, full-time, on-the-job training program. PHIFP includes a didactic curriculum, applied learning through informatics projects completed at the assigned host site, short-term technical assistance projects, and a final capstone project.
Fellows have learned from and bolstered host site informatics capacity through the development or enhancement of information systems, evaluations, data integration, data visualization, and analysis. Among recent graduates, 54% are employed at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 16% are employed at other public health organizations, including local health departments.
Fellowships such as PHIFP, which recruit and train promising scientists in public health informatics, are important components of efforts to strengthen public health workforce capacity.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行暴露了政府公共卫生部门过时的信息技术以及数据科学和信息学劳动力能力不足的问题。疾病控制与预防中心的公共卫生信息学奖学金计划（PHIFP）在加强公共卫生数据科学和信息学劳动力能力方面具有良好的条件。
PHIFP成立于1996年，是一个为期两年的全日制在职培训计划。PHIFP包括一个教学课程、通过在指定主办机构完成的信息学项目进行的应用学习、短期技术援助项目以及一个最终的顶点项目。
学员们通过开发或增强信息系统、评估、数据整合、数据可视化和分析，从主办机构的信息学能力中学习并增强了其能力。在最近的毕业生中，54%受雇于疾病控制与预防中心，16%受雇于其他公共卫生组织，包括地方卫生部门。
像PHIFP这样招募和培训公共卫生信息学领域有前途的科学家的奖学金计划，是加强公共卫生劳动力能力努力的重要组成部分。
