Lessons learned for public health workforce development: An evaluation of the centers for disease control and prevention's laboratory leadership service fellowship.

ABSTRACT: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS) Fellowship Program in July 2015 to develop public health laboratory (PHL) leaders who will improve PHL quality and safety. This article describes a retrospective, summative evaluation to determine the extent to which LLS has met its short-term goals for PHL workforce development. The evaluation relied on existing data from routine LLS data collection and reporting, supplemented with a new alumni survey. The purpose of the design was threefold: 1) to reduce data collection burden on program staff and participants, 2) to assess the value and limits of routine fellowship data for comprehensive public health workforce development program evaluation, and 3) to identify ways to improve LLS's routine d

SUBMITTER: McColloch C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9721312 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature