Overview

Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of a public health project or initiative focused on population health that is either ongoing or in development.

Possible activities:

• Identify program structure and organization, stakeholders, and components in the program environment
• Identify information sources and gather relevant data
• Plan and execute an evaluation
• Use evaluation outcomes for quality improvement

Efficiently manage a program or project.

Possible activities:

• Plan, organize, and track program or project activities as they affects a population’s health.
• Motivate people to move toward achieving program or project objectives
• Identify and use resources to achieve program or project objectives

Apply scientifically sound techniques to conduct a policy review or develop policy guidelines.

Possible activities:

• Use scientific data in forming population health policies or recommendations
• Effectively communicate the importance of recommended policies or actions to stakeholders
• Identify priorities or agendas that could facilitate or impede recommended policies or actions and make strategic adjustments accordingly to advance the policy process

Develop a grant proposal (or a portion of it) or participate in an objective review process evaluating grant applications (grant must provide essential public health services or complex budget management).

Possible activities:

• Develop either a grant proposal or a strategic plan on how to develop a grant
• Review grant applications systematically and objectively

Plan, develop, implement, and evaluate scientifically sound population health improvement initiatives (e.g., health needs assessments, stakeholder engagement efforts, health interventions).

(Community refers to any target groups representing important stakeholders [e.g., staff, public health workers]).

Possible activities:

• Assess a community’s capacity and needs
• Identify a community’s priorities and how they can be addressed while trying to develop capacity to address a separate public health issue
• Identify a community’s resources and how they can be organized and used in a systematic and sustainable manner to provide essential public and population health services