I followed the "Future of Public Health Intelligence (PHI) - launch of the PHI competences framework and curriculum today. WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: building the future of public health intelligence: launch of the PHI Competency Framework and Curriculum
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The webinar was recorded and will be made available through the website, I believe.
Public Health Intelligence (PHI) is core public health functions and responsibility for identifying, collecting, connecting, synthesising, analysing, and assessing public health data. This is in order to detect public Health threats rapidly, to provide evidence for actions, for supporting OneHealth, and for improving planning.
The framework trains the new PHI workforce, and updates and solidifies the competence of the workforce. This includes highlighting the required competences, designing courses and learning objectives, providing the concepts and processes for foundational training, and providing standalone training that can precede the implementation of the two core products - the competency framework and the curriculum. The framework was designed using landscape analysis before piloting and implementation. The core processes of surveillance are: detect, verify, analyse, and assess (for further action etc). Surveillance is the process, intelligence is the product! Legal, ethical, regulatory frameworks and stakeholder and community engagement are emphasised.
Training curricula are presented in person, virtually, by hybrid means, and through self-study.
A final point concerned AI which is here to stay and needs to be considered when structuring PHI. The governance requirements need to be applied to the AI solutions, and Opensource can help to twin with others working in the same fields.
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HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com