Research Catalog

Title

Ensuring an infectious disease workforce : education and training needs for the 21st century : workshop summary / Stacey L. Knobler [and others], editors ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health.

Publication

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Knobler, Stacey.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats.

Description

xvi, 219 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Communicable diseases > Prevention > Congresses
• Communicable Disease Control > trends
• Public Health > manpower
• Public health personnel > Education > Congresses
• Public Health > education
• Public health personnel > Training of > Congresses
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Exploring the characteristics of the workforce -- The role of physician-scientists -- Fields of special emphasis -- Assessing domestic and international training programs and educational needs -- Addressing the workforce crisis in the developing world -- Implications of visas and select agent research restrictions -- Identifying priorities for the future -- Implications of restrictions on foreign students and scientists for infectious disease research / Ronald M. Atlas -- Training and sustaining the public health laboratory workforce - our first line of defense against infectious disease / Scott J. Becker -- Who will live in the "house of genomics"? / Tara Acharya, Halla Thorsteindottir, Peter A. Singer and Abdallah S. Daar -- Public health for all : workforce development through an integrated approach to health care curricula / Walid El Ansari -- Stakeholders' perceptions of outcomes in public health educational partnerships / Walid El Ansari -- Health protection : communicable disease, public health and infection control educational programmes - a case study from the UK, 105 / W. El-Ansari and S. Privett -- Addressing the health workforce crisis in the developing world / A. Edward Elmendorf -- Ensuring an adequate infectious diseases physician response to emerging infections / Gary L. Gorby -- Addressing the microbial threat to health : training Ph.D. scientists to help lead the way / Martha L. Gray -- What kinds of scientists do we need to train, and how? / Victoria McGovern -- Vaccines in the 21st century / Stanley Plotkin -- Schools of public health : meeting the workforce challenge of emerging infections / Margaret A. Potter -- U.S. capacity to confront emerging vector-borne pathogens / Andrew Spielman.

ISBN

0309100100 (pbk.)

LCCN

2005026106

OCLC

• ocm61479580
• SCSB-5237170

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries