Core Competencies for Public Health

Professionals Analysis

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Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals Domains

This section identifies the 8 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals domains and

recommended actions you should consider (develop, leverage, maintain, or de-emphasize), based on

assessment results from your July/August 2017 PHD Workforce Development Training Assessment. The

actions can be used to determine what domains to set goals for and where to invest your professional

Analytical/Assessment Skills focus on identifying and understanding data, turning data into information

for action, assessing needs and assets to address community health needs, developing community health

assessments, and using evidence for decision making.

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills focus on determining needed policies and programs;

advocating for policies and programs; planning, implementing, and evaluating policies and programs;

developing and implementing strategies for continuous quality improvement; and developing and

implementing community health improvement plans and strategic plans.

Communication Skills focus on assessing and addressing population literacy; soliciting and using

community input; communicating data and information; facilitating communications; and communicating

the roles of government, health care, and others.

relationships within the community, maintaining and advancing partnerships and community

involvement, negotiating for use of community assets, defending public health policies and programs, and

evaluating effectiveness and improving community engagement.

Public Health Sciences Skills focus on understanding the foundation and prominent events of public

health, applying public sciences to practice, critiquing and developing research, using evidence when

developing policies and programs, and establishing academic partnerships.

Financial Planning and Management Skills focus on engaging other government agencies that can

address community health needs, leveraging public health and health care funding mechanisms,

developing and defending budgets, motivating personnel, evaluating and improving program and

organization performance, and establishing and using performance management systems to improve

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills focus on incorporating ethical standards into the organization;

Prioritization

This section identifies the relative importance of the 8 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals

domains in the context of your role based on your prioritization and assessment results from your

July/August 2017 PHD Workforce Development Training Assessment.

Higher priority domains indicate relative importance whereas the lower priority domains indicate domains

that are less important across the 8 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals domains.

Strengths

Assessment. The domain scores below are the average of your responses, from the self-assessment,

regarding the degree to which you are able to effectively complete the skills in each domain. For

reference, the scoring categories were:

· 0 = None: I am not aware or have very little knowledge of the skill

· 1 = Aware: I have heard of, but have limited knowledge or ability to apply the skill

· 2 = Knowledgeable: I am comfortable with my knowledge or ability to apply the skill

· 3 = Proficient: I am very comfortable, am an expert, or could teach this skill to others

Higher competency domains indicate relative strength, whereas lower competency domains indicate areas

for potential development across the 8 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals domains.