Managing Effectively in Today’s Public Health Environment

Local boards of health (LBOH) and health departments in Massachusetts are responsible for providing ten essential public health services in their communities. To ensure consistency across LBOH a sub-committee of the Institute developed a competency model and set of competencies for 17 common program areas (i.e., food protection, wastewater, housing, disease surveillance and investigation, vaccine management) and ten cross-cutting areas (i.e., communication, leadership, management). View the 2010 Final Report

After a successful pilot delivery in 2013, with participants from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, the New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC) offered the course again in 2015.

In 2015, NEPHTC partnered with:

• Massachusetts Environmental Health Association
• Massachusetts Health Officer’s Association
• University of New England, the NEPHTC Local Performance Site for Maine

The course is now complete and we offer congratulations to all of the students and our thanks to instructors, mentors and guest speaker Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel.

Access the Session recordings (password protected)

For information, contact Jen Tsoi at jtsoi@bu.edu

This course is supported by the Local Public Health Institute of Massachusetts (the Institute) and by the New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC). The Institute is a Massachusetts Department of Public Health funded entity created to strengthen local public health through training and education. It is managed by the Boston University School of Public Health’s Office of Public Health Practice and is supported in part by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number 5U90TP116997-10, Public Health Preparedness and Response for Bioterrorism. The NEPHTC is funded by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under UB6HP27877 “Regional Public Health Training Center Program” for $825,634.00 with 0% financed with nongovernmental source. The information, content, and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by CDC, HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.