Public Health

Key Public Health Facts

• Only 20 percent of the nation's estimated 400,000 to 500,000 public health professionals have the education and training needed to do their jobs most effectively.

• Approximately half of the 2 million deaths in the U.S. each year could be prevented.

• Public health professionals—in their roles as environmental monitors, inspectors, consumer educators and health care providers—significantly reduce the number of preventable deaths.

HRSA Bureau of Health Professions Public Health Grant Programs

FY 2004 Funding Opportunities

• Public Health Training Centers assess workforce learning needs and provide tailored distance learning and related educational programs

• Bioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program (BTCDP)
  FY 2003 Grant Contacts and Abstracts - Curriculum Development
  FY 2003 Grant Contacts and Abstracts - Continuing Education

• Public Health Traineeships train eligible individuals in public health professions experiencing critical shortages. FY 2004 Grant Contacts

• Preventive Medicine Residencies develop new, support existing residency training programs and provide financial assistance to enrollees.

• Health Administration Traineeships increase the number of underrepresented minority health administrators and the number of health administrators in underserved areas. Support academic and field-of-practice linkages, develop outcomes-based curricula. FY 2004 Grant Contacts

Center for Public Health Staff

• Center for Public Health, 301-443-6853, FAX 301-443-1164

• Doug Lloyd, MD, MPH, chief (acting), preventive medicine contact, 301-443-7290

• Rosa Delgado, executive assistant, 301-443-6854

• John R. Kress, MHA, Public Health Training Center program director, 301-443-6864

• Beverly H. Smith, MHS, senior public health advisor, 301-443-3231
  

• Angela Beck, Public Health Fellow, 301-443-3460
  

• Mildred Brooks-Mcdow, Public Health Analyst, 301-443-6889
  

• Tempie Desai, Management Analyst, 301-443-0132
  

• Cecelia Maryland, Program Analyst, 301-443-1973
  

• Elsie Quinones, Public Health Analyst
  

Links to Public Health Professional Associations (not U.S. government Web sites)

• American Public Health Association

• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials  

• National Association of County and City Health Officials  

• National Association of Local Boards of Health 

• National Association of State Legislatures  

Links to Public Health Education Associations (not U.S. government Web sites)

• Association of Schools of Public Health

• Public Health Foundation

• Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice

• Management Academy for Public Health  

• Association of University Programs in Health Administration

• Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine