 CSTE and National Forum on Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention webinar on “Utilizing the CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Competencies”
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CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Competencies - Toolkit
CSTE and CDC are pleased to release a newly developed toolkit to help epidemiologists and other public health practitioners understand and incorporate the CDC/CSTE Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (AECs) into everyday practice. The toolkit includes the following items:
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We encourage individual epidemiologists, public health agencies, and academic centers to use the competencies and contents of the toolkit and to move with us toward a common goal of improving epidemiologic practice. We will publish additional information about the competencies, including tools and documentation to support their use, at www.cste.org/competencies.asp and on the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/od/owcd/cdd/aec/. |
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All files are in an Adobe ® Acrobat ® PDF format
- Joint letter from CDC and CSTE announcing the availability of the AEC Toolkit
- Informational Brochure – An introduction to the new standards in practice for epidemiologists working within the U.S. public health system
- AECs - This is a table of all defined competencies for four tiers of practicing epidemiologists (44 pages in length)
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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AEC Preface- The Preface is an overview of the AECs and a description of how they were developed. This is a companion document to the AECs. This is an Adobe ® Acrobat ® PDF document 15 pages in length. -
AEC Short Summaries - For each Tier, there is a two-page summary of the relevant AECs.
- Tier 1: Entry Level or Basic Epidemiologist
- Tier 2: Mid-Level Epidemiologist
- Tier 3a: Senior-Level Epidemiologist: Supervisor and/or Manager
- Tier 3b: Senior Scientist/Subject Area Expert
- All Tiers
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ASSESSMENT
Epidemiology Competency Assessment Forms – A tool that can be used to evaluate level of understanding and ability to perform competencies or to evaluate epidemiologic competence of staff.
- Tier 1: Entry Level or Basic Epidemiologist
- Tier 2: Mid-Level Epidemiologist
- Tier 3a: Senior-Level Epidemiologist: Supervisor and/or Manager
- Tier 3b: Senior Scientist/Subject Area Expert
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TEMPLATES
Sample Position Descriptions for all four levels of the AECs:
- Tier 1: Entry Level or Basic Epidemiologist
- Tier 2: Mid-Level Epidemiologist
- Tier 3a: Senior-Level Epidemiologist: Supervisor and/or Manager
- Tier 3b: Senior Scientist/Subject Area Expert
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RESOURCES
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The Development of the AECs
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| The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) developed the Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (Applied Epidemiology Competencies or AECs for short) to improve the practice of epidemiology within the public health system. The goal of the AECs is to improve the practice of epidemiology among public health agencies by creating a comprehensive list of competencies that: |
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- Defines the discipline of applied epidemiology and
- Describes what skills four different levels of practicing epidemiologists working in government public health agencies should have to accomplish required tasks.
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| The AECs were developed within the framework of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals—a product of the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice—and thus are consistent with the larger field of public health practice. The AECs resulted from 2 years of highly collaborative work by an expert panel representing local, state, and federal public health agencies and schools and graduate programs of public health. Epidemiologists at all levels of public health practice from throughout the country and from academia provided substantial input into the AECs. |
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The target audience and intended uses of the AEC are as follows:
- Practitioners: to assess current skills, create career development plans, and plan specific training;
- Employers: to create career ladders for employees, develop position descriptions and job qualifications, develop training plans for employees, determine compensation, and assess epidemiologic capacity of the organization;
- Educators: to design programs that train the next generation of epidemiologists to meet the needs of public health agencies, incorporate critical elements of epidemiologic practice into existing coursework, and provide continuing education to the current workforce.
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