Applicable Competencies & Courses

Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health:

• • Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context

  • Collect valid and reliable quantitative or qualitative data.

  • Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy or practice

  • Identify the limitations of research results, data sources, or existing practices and programs

Public Health & Health Care Systems:

• Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels

Planning & Management to Promote Health

• Apply evaluation frameworks to measure the performance and impact of health programs, policies, and systems

• Develop and conduct formative evaluation plans

• Identify challenges to program implementation

• Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities' health

Communication

• Identify communication gaps

• Communicate effectively and convey information in a manner that is easily understood by diverse audiences

• Communicate results of evaluation efforts

• Integrate principles of social justice into public health practice and promotion

• Investigate how systemic oppression, racism, and discrimination fuels justice involvement and its impacts on public health

• Examine U.S. law and public health at the intersection of the criminal justice system

• Evaluate the collateral consequences of criminal justice policy at local, state, and federal levels and their impact on community health