Public Health Workforce Development in NYS

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Public Health Workforce Development in NYS

• Presentation to the
• Public Health Association of NYC
• Marita Murrman, EdD

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New York State Department of Health Contact
Information

• Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS
• Director, Office of Public Health Practice NYS
  Department of Health Corning Tower, Rm. 821 ESP
  Albany, NY 12237 sjp03_at_health.state.ny.us
  518-473-4223

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Public Health Workforce

• an adequately prepared workforce does not
  simply materialize as wished for.
• K. Gebbie and B. Turnock. The Public Health
  Workforce 2006 New Challenges. Health Affairs,
  Vol. 25 No. 4 July/August 2006

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Public Health Workforce Challenges

• Shortages
• Related to budgetary constraints, aging of the
  work force
• Scarcity especially acute for nurses,
  epidemiologists, environmental health
  practitioners
• Lack of Diversity Workforce does not look like
  the population it serves

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Public Health Workforce Challenges

• Educational Preparation - majority of workforce
  lacks formal public health training
• Limited Access to Continuing Education. Training
  constrained by
• limited resources
• poor design
• competing priorities
• inaccessible times and locations
• Insufficient preparation for PH Leaders

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Public Health Workforce

• sustaining a drive toward high performance and
  improved health outcomes requires long term
  workforce development and new approaches
• K. Gebbie and B. Turnock. The Public Health
  Workforce 2006 New Challenges. Health Affairs,
  Vol. 25 No. 4 July/August 2006

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Public Health Workforce Taskforce

• Vision An adequately sized and competent public
  health workforce serving NYS residents
• Mission Develop and implement strategies to
  address recruitment, training and education and
  retention

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Workforce Taskforce Members

• Local Health Departments and the NYS Association
  of County Health Officials
• Schools and Programs of PH SUNY Albany, SUNY
  Buffalo,
• Columbia/Mailman, NY Medical College, SUNY
  Downstate,
• Brooklyn, Hunter, U. Rochester, NYU
• New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center
• New York State Department of Health
• NYS Nurses Association
• Health Care Association of NYS
• Medical Society of NYS
• Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
• NYS Dept Civil Service

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Task Force Projects/Initiatives

• Strengthening Academic / Practice Partnerships
• Increase numbers and quality of field placements
  in governmental public health agencies
• Establish PH Leaders of Tomorrow
• Assessing Leadership Skills
• Develop and pilot leadership self assessment
  tool
• Marketing Governmental Public Health Careers
• Enhance Public Health Works! as marketing tool
• Work with state/local Human Resources and Civil
  Service to promote public health agency
  positions
• Implementing Continuing Education Programs
• Public Health Educators, Public Health Nurses
• Monitoring PH Workforce Trends
• Enumeration of 36 LHDs, Exit Survey in
  Development
• New Employee Survey at SDOH

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NYS DOH Recruitment Efforts

• Many titles at NYS DOH including
• Nurses
• Epidemiologists
• Nutritionists
• Physicians
• Public Health Educators
• Community Health Program Managers
• Sanitarians
• Laboratory Workers
• Public Health Representatives.
• Most titles are competitive, requiring exam
• Many titles exist throughout New York State,
  including downstate offices in NYC and New
  Rochelle.

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Promotion of Opportunities

• Job openings and examination announcements can be
  found at www.health.state.ny.us
• Job openings for positions and examinations in
  other NYS agencies can be found at
  www.cs.state.ny.us
• Promote via paid advertisements, health-related
  websites, mailings to other states, counties
  within NYS, and community based organizations

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Retention Efforts

• Contract negotiated annual pay raises
• Employee recognition and service awards
• Alternate work schedules
• Staff development training
• Health benefits and pension plan

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Certification in PH Exam

• DOH very supportive of staff being recognized for
  training and education they are pursuing,
  however, it is too soon to tell whether proposed
  public health credential received from this
  examination might or might not be integrated into
  the current or future Civil Service processes in
  place for appointments to NYS DOH positions.

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Public Health Works!

• Please visit the website and tell us what you
  think!
• http//www.health.state.ny.us/prevention/public_he
  alth_works/
• Contact us if you want to consider employment at
  state or local health departments
  phworks_at_health.state.ny.us