9 research outputs found
Recruiting New Talent for Public Health Jobs With Evidence-Based Job Descriptions and Attractive Job Postings
Get PDFContext: With 924 899). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the US government.Krasna, Heather; Kulik, Phoebe K. G.; Karnik, Harshada; Leider, Jonathon P.. (2023). Recruiting New Talent for Public Health Jobs With Evidence-Based Job Descriptions and Attractive Job Postings. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001776
A review of recruitment and retention strategies in U.S. local health departments: insights and practical solutions
Get PDFIntroduction: Staffing shortages in US local health departments (LHDs) have been well documented. While the increasing number of public health graduates offers an abundant talent pool, LHDs are facing increasing competition from other employers.
Methods: We conducted a comprehensive review to identify factors impeding recruitment and retention at LHDs and strategies that could be used to address them.
Results: Our findings highlight various barriers and opportunities. The main barriers were non-competitive salaries, perceived lack of employee autonomy, cumbersome HR protocols, and an environment that is not satisfying to a diverse workforce. Strategies to enhance recruitment include marketing the rewarding aspects of public health employment, establishing partnerships with academic institutions, and developing internship programs. Strategies to improve retention include improving the organizational work environment, supporting professional growth, mentoring programs, and succession planning.
Discussion: Our study highlights the staffing barriers facing LHDs and offers practical solutions they can implement to support successful recruitment and retention. More work is needed to identify specific ways to improve workplace culture, quantify the disparity between pay offered by health departments and their competitors, and better understand barriers and opportunities related to supporting a diverse workforce.The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. The funding for this study was provided by the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). The findings from the review are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of or endorsement by CCDPH or IDPH.Houck, Olivia; Martin, Skky; Karnik, Harshada; Leider, Jonathon P.; Barnett, Gina Massuda; Hasbrouck, LaMar. (2025). A review of recruitment and retention strategies in U.S. local health departments: insights and practical solutions. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1516027
Building Adaptive Leaders: A Formative Evaluation of the Region V Public Health Leadership Institute Using Ripple Effect Mapping and Focus Groups
No full textObjectives: The Region V Public Health Training Center implemented an inaugural Leadership Institute (RVPHLI) from January to June 2023. This paper outlines a formative evaluation of the program to qualitatively assess its potential outcomes and influence on participants’ leadership capacity.
Design, Setting, and Participants: Thirty-eight public health and primary care professionals participated in 40 hours of online learning activities focused on adaptive leadership themes.
Main Outcome Measure: We conducted ripple effect mapping (REM) exercises and focus group discussions with 32 participants.
Results: REM analysis using the Community Capitals Framework suggested benefits to participants’ cultural, social, and human capital. The following themes emerged as takeaways from the focus groups: leaders as collaborators, new approaches to work and leadership, better understanding of individual leadership qualities and skills, current challenges, and validated existing definitions of leadership.
Conclusions: REM analysis showed participants gaining confidence and skills. They identified beneficiaries beyond themselves and shared challenges and resources. Findings will shape future RVPHLI iterations and potentially enhance development of other leadership programs in both the public health and primary care sectors.The Region V Public Health Training Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31684 Public Health Training Centers ($929 475). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by Region V PHTC, HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.Karnik, Harshada; Barbiero, Julieta; Zemmel, Danielle J.; Weiss, Nicole M.; Kulik, Phoebe K.G.; Power, Laura E.; Leider, Jonathon P.. (2025). Building Adaptive Leaders: A Formative Evaluation of the Region V Public Health Leadership Institute Using Ripple Effect Mapping and Focus Groups. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.1097/PHH.0000000000002150
Strategic Workforce Analysis: Identifying Skills and Gaps Among Frontline Public Health Workers Amidst Transformation
Get PDFObjective: Recent shifts in public health (PH) include consistent budget cuts, workforce attrition, and loss of vital skills and institutional knowledge followed by heightened pandemic-driven attention, new responsibilities, and renewed funding. This study investigates whether frontline employees working in different types of public health departments have different educational characteristics and whether these characteristics are associated with differentials in skill gaps toward informing targeted interventions to nurture a competitive workforce.
Methods: Utilizing 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) data, we document variations in educational qualifications, skill gaps, and workforce characteristics among frontline workers in different sizes of health departments and examine attributes associated with skill gaps: level and field of education, years of experience, program areas, and job classifications using a negative binomial model.
Results: Skill gaps in resource management, systems and strategic thinking, and change management persist across all local health departments (LHDs), but the extent of these gaps is greater in small LHDs. Small LHDs also have few employees with graduate and public health degrees. Additionally, whereas public health degrees were not associated with fewer skill gaps, tenure in public health was, suggesting people learn on the job.
Conclusion: The results highlight the role regional training centers can play in emphasizing the need for strategic skills and foundational public health concepts, as well as customizing training content by agency size and educational levels to improve accessibility, particularly for small LHDs with resource constraints.The Region V Public Health Training Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31684 Public Health Training Centers ($970,593). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by Region V PHTC, HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.Karnik, Harshada; Zemmel, Danielle J.; Kulik, Phoebe K. G.; Power, Laura E.; Leider, Jonathon P.. (2024). Strategic Workforce Analysis: Identifying Skills and Gaps Among Frontline Public Health Workers Amidst Transformation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.1097/PHH.0000000000002006
Development of the Selection Procedure of an Insulating Foam for Its Application in Gas Insulated Transmission Lines, Demonstrated Using Syntactic Foam
Get PDFabstract: Due to increasing integration of renewable resources in the power grid, an efficient high power transmission system is needed in the near future to transfer energy from remote locations to the load centers. Gas Insulated Transmission Line (GIL) is a specialized high power transmission system, designed by Siemens, for applications requiring direct burial or vertical installation of the transmission line. GIL uses SF6 as an insulating medium. Due to unavoidable gas leakages and high global warming potential of SF6, there is a need to replace this insulating gas by some other possible alternative. Insulating foam materials are characterized by excellent dielectric properties as well as their reduced weight. These materials can find their application in GIL as high voltage insulators. Syntactic foam is a polymer based insulating foam. It consists of a large number of microspheres embedded in a polymer matrix.
The work in this thesis deals with the development of the selection proce-dure for an insulating foam for its application in GIL. All the steps in the process are demonstrated considering syntactic foam as an insulator. As the first step of the procedure, a small representative model of the insulating foam is built in COMSOL Multiphysics software with the help of AutoCAD and Excel VBA to analyze electric field distribution for the application of GIL. The effect of the presence of metal particles on the electric field distribution is also observed. The AC voltage withstand test is performed on the insulating foam samples according to the IEEE standards. The effect of the insulating foam on electrical parameters as well as transmission characteristics of the line is analyzed as the last part of the thesis. The results from all the simulations and AC voltage withstand test are ob-served to predict the suitability of the syntactic foam as an insulator in GIL.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Electrical Engineering 201
Glassy carbon electrode modified with polyanilne/ethylenediamine for detection of copper ions
No full textSpectroscopic investigations upon 100MeV oxygen ions irradiation on polyaniline and poly-o-toluidine
No full textCopolymers of polyaniline and poly-o-toluidine: Electrochemical synthesis and characterization
No full textA resource to empirically establish drug exposure records directly from untargeted metabolomics data
No full textDespite extensive efforts, extracting medication exposure information from clinical records remains challenging. To complement this approach, here we show the Global Natural Product Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) Drug Library, a tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) based resource designed for drug screening with untargeted metabolomics. This resource integrates MS/MS references of drugs and their metabolites/analogs with standardized vocabularies on their exposure sources, pharmacologic classes, therapeutic indications, and mechanisms of action. It enables direct analysis of drug exposure and metabolism from untargeted metabolomics data, supporting flexible summarization at multiple ontology levels to align with different research goals. We demonstrate its application by stratifying participants in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cohort based on detected drug exposures. We uncover drug-associated alterations in microbiota-derived N-acyl lipids that are not captured when stratifying by self-reported medication use. Overall, GNPS Drug Library provides a scalable resource for empirical drug screening in clinical, nutritional, environmental, and other research disciplines, facilitating insights into the ecological and health consequences of drug exposures. While not intended for immediate clinical decision-making, it supports data-driven exploration of drug exposures where traditional records are limited or unreliable.This project was enabled in part by the Alzheimer’s Gut Microbiome Project (AGMP) and the Data Infrastructure and Molecular Atlas for AD: Connection Exposome, Gut Microbiome, and Metabolome supplement funded wholly or in part by the following grants thereto: 1U19AG063744 and 3U19AG063744-04S1 and awarded to Dr. Kaddurah-Daouk at Duke University in partnership with multiple academic institutions. As such, the investigators within the AGMP and the Exposome Supplement, not listed specifically in this publication’s author list, provided data along with their pre-processing and prepared it for analysis, but did not participate in analysis or writing of this manuscript. A listing of AGMP Investigators can be found at https://alzheimergut.org/meet-the-team/. A complete listing of ADMC investigators can be found at: https://sites.duke.edu/adnimetab/team/. We also thank the support by NIH for the Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics project P50HD106463, the development of tools for structure elucidation R01DK136117, and the Collaborative Microbial Metabolite Center U24DK133658. The HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC) is supported by Center award P30MH062512 from NIMH. This research was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ZIC ES103363). H.N.Z. was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K99ES037746. C.B. was supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences PPLZ fellowship number L200552251. V.C.L. is supported by Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS) Postdoctoral fellowship (335368). N.E.A was supported in part by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health of the NIH under award number F32AT011475. A.M.C.-R. and P.C.D. were supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant GBMF12120. M.R. was supported by the NIH grant R37 AI126277. T.P. was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) grant 21-11563 M and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 891397. L.C., R.G.-S., and P.G.-F. were supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science (PID2022-139446OB-C21 and PID2022-139446OB-C22). L.C. acknowledges the support from the Economy and Knowledge Department of the Catalan Government through Consolidated Research Group (ICRA-TECH 2021 SGR 01283), as well as from the CERCA programme. W.B. acknowledges support by the Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO G0AHY25N).Peer reviewe
