This website developed as part of a 15-month planning process from July 2007 through September 2008. Partners on the grant-funded project include the Wisconsin Public Health Association (WPHA) as fiscal agent with organizational partners being the Division of Public Health (DPH), Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards (WALHDAB), Wisconsin Area Health Education Center System (AHEC), and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).
The purpose of the project as described in the proposal was “first to advance the Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 public health workforce system priority focused on diversity, sufficiency, and competency by developing and disseminating a Call to Action report, and second to develop a sustainable process that generates a commitment to action and strong partnerships between broad public health system partners.”
The partners held a Public Health Workforce Summit for Wisconsin in February 2008 to ignite the planning process for a 'Call to Action' report. Posted below are materials from the Summit.
Three workgroups, centered around diversity, sufficiency and competency, continued the planning process through June 2008. Input was solicited on preliminary elements of the 'Call to Action' report in May-June 2008. Results from an online survey inviting comments on the sufficiency, diversity and competency workplans can be found here.
With the July 23 kick-off event at the Wisconsin Public Health Association-Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards (WPHA-WALHDAB) annual conference in Madison, implementation of Stepping Up to the Challenge: Wisconsin's Public Health Workforce Call to Action will begin.
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