Collaborating with public health departments and other agencies to deliver training in evidence-based public health can offset the effects of high staff turnover among public health professionals; strengthen academic-practice relationships; and promote population-wide health and health equity, found a new study led by Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan, an assistant professor at the Brown School at WashU.
Training in evidence-based public health has been available since 1997, but challenging due to high turnover in public health agencies, in which few staff hold a public health degree.
Mazzucca-Ragan and a team at the Prevention Research Center (PRC) tested the effectiveness of training collaboratively among other PRCs, local and state health departments and Public Health Training Centers at four U.S. sites.
Read more about the findings on the Brown School website.
