Sharon S. Krag

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• Sharon S. Krag
• Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Research
• Johns Hopkins University
• Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Kathleen Miner
• Associate Dean, Applied Public Health
• Emory University
• School of Public Health

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ASPH Public Health Biology Competency Workgroup

• Deserves a big Thanks!

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• Andrew Faucett, CDC ORISE Fellow and Emory
  Faculty, Emory and CDC
• Jonathan Fielding, Professor, Health Services and
  Pediatrics, UCLA School of Public Health
• Sally Fogerty, Associate Commissioner, Center for
  Community Health
• Sylvia Furner, Sr. Associate Dean and Assoc.
  Prof. of Epi, UIC
• Tim Hoff, Associate Professor of Health Policy
  Management, Albany
• John McGowan, Professor of Epidemiology, Dept. of
  Epi, Rollins School of Public Health
• Andy Stergachis, Epidemiology Professor, Adj.
  Professor of Pharmacology Int. Chair,
  Pathobiology, University of Washington
• Anne Thorndike, Instructor in Medicine, Mass
  General Hospital
• LuAnn White, Director, Center for Applied EH
  Public Health, Tulane University

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• First step was for the Workgroup to agree on the
  following definition of Public Health Biology
• the biological and molecular context of public
  health

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• The workgroup asked the academic deans of the 36
  ASPH-member schools to submit relevant course
  competencies. Nine schools responded.

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• Using three conference calls, the Workgroup
  agreed on overarching domains into which 6-8 of
  these course competencies fit.

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• Delphi 1, 2, 3 were used to decide on consensus
  core competencies to represent the discipline of
  public health biology.
• Participants in Delphi
• Workgroup
• Workgroup Resource Group

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Resource Group

• Ron Brookmeyer, Director, MPH Program, Professor
  of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public
  Health
• Michele Caggana, Faculty, Albany
• Betty Gulitz, Associate Dean, University of San
  Francisco 
• Gary Ketner, Professor, Molecular Microbiology
  Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Wayne Lamorte, Professor, Epidemiology and
  Surgery, Boston University        
• Mike Moser, Co-Chair Epi Competency Workgroup  
• Peggy Leatt, Co-Chair HPM Competency Workgroup
• Ken McLeroy, Co-chair BSS Competency Workgroup
• Mark Robson, Chair, EH Competency Workgroup
• Jack Barnette, Chair, Biostats Competency
  Workgroup  

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• Upon graduation, a student with an MPH degree
  will be able to...
• 1. Integrate general biological and molecular
  concepts into public health.

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• 2. Communicate the biological and molecular
  basis of public health.

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• 3. Explain the role of biology in the
  ecological model of population-based health.

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• 4. Recognize that biological, chemical, and
  physical agents affect human health.

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• 5. Apply biological principles to development
  and implementation of disease prevention,
  control, or management programs.

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• 6. Describe how behavior alters human biology.

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• 7. Describe the role of the immune system in
  population health.

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• 8. Explain how genetics and genomics affect
  disease processes and public health policy and
  practice.

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• 9. Assess the ethical, social, and legal issues
  within public health biology.

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• 10. Apply evidence-based biological and
  molecular concepts to inform public health
  laws, policies, and regulations.