Modernizing Public Health Data Systems and Workforce Capacity: the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program.

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• Alternative Title:
  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP, 2025, v. 31, no. 2: Modernizing Public Health Data Systems and Workforce Capacity: the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program.
• Journal Article:
  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP
• Personal Author:
  Kirkcaldy, Robert D. ; Biggers, Bradley ; Bonney, Wilfred ; Gordon, Jeffery ; Yassine, Brianne ; Crawford, Brandi ; Papagari-Sangareddy, Sridhar ; Franzke, Laura ; Bernstein, Kyle T.
• Description:
  The COVID-19 pandemic exposed governmental public health's outdated information technology and insufficient data science and informatics workforce capacity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) is well positioned to strengthen public health data science and informatics workforce capacity.
  
  Established in 1996, PHIFP is a 2-year, full-time, on-the-job training program. PHIFP includes a didactic curriculum, applied learning through informatics projects completed at the assigned host site, short-term technical assistance projects, and a final capstone project.
  
  Fellows have learned from and bolstered host site informatics capacity through the development or enhancement of information systems, evaluations, data integration, data visualization, and analysis. Among recent graduates, 54% are employed at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 16% are employed at other public health organizations, including local health departments.
  
  Fellowships such as PHIFP, which recruit and train promising scientists in public health informatics, are important components of efforts to strengthen public health workforce capacity.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Health Services Research
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Fellowships and Scholarships
  • Curriculum
  • Humans
  • Health Workforce
  • Data Systems
• Keywords:
  • CDC
  • informatics
  • public health
  • fellowship
  • workforce
• Source:
  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP, 2025, v. 31, no. 2
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002048
• ISSN:
  1078-4659 ; 1550-5022
• Pubmed ID:
  39321350
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11757090
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  263-269 (12 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  31
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/262008/cdc_262008_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 176.53 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1f2e9a0bc928d2fb01e9334f9ed30ec68729a19dd13a236c71758d88a7ecd3e41a0c5e349a4ceb36ffd3b9f3f3b339ad6080e4a5fa0ccb218e3ac166cb74829d