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CDC Publishes Advancing
the Nation's Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs,
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Advancing the Nation's
Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs , 2006-2015
(Research Guide) is
now available to CDC staff and partners. The
Research Guide provides
a comprehensive, long-range vision of national and global public
health needs that CDC and its partners can address through research.
The Research Guide
helps identify critical knowledge needed to achieve CDC's new Health
Protection Goals which are designed to maximize the health impact of
programs, services, and emergency responses.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW THE
RESEARCH GUIDE AND
COMMENTS ON THE PUBLIC COMMENT DRAFT:
http://www.cdc.gov/OD/science/PHResearch/cdcra/index.htm
HELP US GET THE WORD OUT
- Disseminate this information to your colleagues and partners
- Encourage them to publicize this information through their
newsletters
,
Listservs and
Websites
- Encourage them to refer to the
Research Guide for
comprehensive information on public health research needs
FOR
MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Office of Public Health Research (OPHR)/CDC
Mailstop D-72
Phone:
404-639-4621
ResearchGuide@cdc.gov
http://www.cdc.gov/OD/science/PHResearch/cdcra/index.htm
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We are contacting you to request your
participation in a study on professional preparation programs in
health communication. This project is being conducted by Emory
University with support from the National Center for Health
Marketing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This project has been reviewed by the Institutional Review Board at
Emory University.
The goals of this project are: 1) to identify
every graduate-level health communication and social marketing
course taught in the United States in departments and schools of
communication, public health, and health promotion to analyze the
content of each course to learn about the state-of-the-art of health
communication instruction; 2) to create an on-line searchable
database of health communication syllabi that will be publicly
available (with all identifying information removed if requested);
and 3) to survey health communication instructors about health
communication concentrations or programs, and to gauge the perceived
importance of the creation of graduate health communication
competencies.
You may have received a similar request several
years ago by Dr Jay Bernhardt. At the request of the CDC's National
Center for Health Marketing, we are updating that study in several
ways (including creating an on-line database), so we ask for your
participation in this new request, even if you responded to the
earlier call for syllabi. To participate in our project, we request
that you submit a copy of the syllabi from each graduate level
health communication course that you have taught in the past 2 years
no later than April 30, 2007. Combined undergrad/grad courses also
are eligible for inclusion.
Reply to this email and send your syllabus as an
attachment to: healthcomm@sph.emory.edu; or fax your syllabi to:
(404) 727 - 1369 to the attention of Dr. Jo Ellen Stryker.
If you agree to allow your syllabus to be posted,
then you have two options: 1) we will post the syllabus exactly as
you have sent it; or 2) we will remove all identifying information,
including your name and contact information, the name of your
institution, and the course identification number. If you prefer
not to post your syllabus, it will be kept completely confidential
and will not be shared with anyone other than the researchers.
Please indicate your preference by placing your initials next to one
of the three statements located at the end of this email. The
findings from this research will not identify any specific programs
or instructors and will only report data in the aggregate. Upon
completion, we will send you a copy of the study findings, which we
believe will help the field to better understand the educational
needs and strategies for training the health communication
workforce.
Please forward this message to other graduate
health communication instructors in your department or elsewhere who
may wish to participate in this project.
In addition, please consider completing the brief
online anonymous survey that explores instruction in health
communication at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=492252743210
Thank you in advance for helping us to make this
project a success. If you have any questions, please contact us at
the email address below.
Sincerely,
Jo Ellen Stryker, PhD
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar
Behavioral Sciences & Health Education
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
jestryk@sph.emory.edu
