9.15: Strategies and Tools for Improving Infectious Disease Follow-Up in New Populations

9.21: Foundations for Local Public Health Practice: Tools Needed to get the job done - Eastern MA

9.21: Foundations for Local Public Health Practice: Tools Needed to get the job done - Western MA

9.22: Strategies and Tools for Improving Infectious Disease Follow-Up in New Populations

10.04: WMD Protection & Decontamination for Healthcare Workers

10.18: Advanced WMD/Hazardous Materials Technician Course


Boston University
School of Public Health
Office of Public Health Practice
715 Albany Street Talbot Building
Boston, MA 02118
sph.bu.edu/practice
617-414-8423

Institute Project Manager:
Jennifer Tsoi
jtsoi@bu.edu
617-638-4825

The mission of the Local Public Health Institute (Institute) is to provide and ensure a competent workforce by strengthening and sustaining the capacity of local boards of health to prepare for and respond to public health issues and emergencies and to promote the health of residents of the Commonwealth.

Competency Report
To ensure more consistency across local public health agencies, in March 2006, the Local Public Health Institute of Massachusetts’ Advisory Council established a subcommittee to develop a competency model and set of competencies. These competencies will be used to assist with developing and delivering comprehensive training programs for the local public health workforce. This document represents the final product of the subcommittee’s work, which includes descriptions of:

  1. nine, interdisciplinary, cross-cutting competencies and
  2. eighteen program area competencies.

Additional support was provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration via the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development and Boston University School of Public Health.

NEW Management:
Boston University School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice was selected to act as the new vendor for the Institute, effective January 2010.

06.22.10: The Institute Newsletter June 2010
05.04.09: MDPH H1N1 Flu Fact Sheet
04.24.09: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report: "School-Based Emergency Preparedness: A National Analysis and Recommended Protocol.”