Discipline Specific CompetenciesWorking Group

Environment/Biology

Participants

• Mamatakulow Bakhrom - • Abdikaliev Nurlan - Kazakhstan• Samskas Linas - Lithuania• Chultemdorj Tsolmon - Mongolia• Eganyan Rouzana - Russia• Daburov Komil - Tajikistan• Noah Simmons - US• Narine Movsisyan – Armenia• George Jakab – US/Armenia

Environmental Health

• Most fragmented and poorly defined area of public health

• Fragmentation is a barrier to effective protection against environmental health threats

• Today’s complex environmental public health problems require coordinated responses of multiple agencies and organizations and various professional disciplines

Primary Objective of Environmental Health

• To prevent death and illness from environmentally related disease and injury

Achieved through the ability to anticipate, recognize, and respond to environmental health threats

Typical Responsibilities of Environmental Health & Protections Programs

• Ambient air quality• Indoor air quality• Water pollution control• Safe drinking water• Noise pollution• Food • Meat, fish, poultry• Milk• Industrial hygiene• Childhood lead poisoning• Acid deposition• Disaster planning &

response

• Solid waste management• Hazardous waste

management• Vector control• Pesticide control• Toxic chemical control• Bioterrorism• Risk “sciences”• Global environmental

issues– Global warming– Ozone depletion– Planetary toxification

• Emerging issues

Environmental Health Knowledge Areas

• Food protection

• Drinking water

• Wastewater

• Solid & hazardous waste

• Hazardous materials

• Vectors and pests

• Air quality & noise

• Radiation protection

• Occupational Safety and Health

• Statues and Regulations

Competency

The ability to perform an integrated task

Recommended Competencies

• Assessment

• Management

• Communication

Recommended Competencies

• Assessment– Information gathering– Data analysis &

interpretation– Evaluation

• Management– Problem solving– Economic & political

issues– Organizational

knowledge & behavior– Project management

– Computer and information technology

– Reporting, documentation & record keeping

– Collaboration

• Communication– Educate– Communicate– Conflict resolution– marketing

Assessment

• Information gathering– Identify sources and compile relevant and

appropriate information when needed, and the knowledge of where to go to obtain the information

• Data analysis and interpretation– Analyze data, recognize meaningful test results,

interpret results, and present the results in an appropriate way to different types of audiences.

• Evaluation:– Evaluate the effectiveness or performance of

procedures, interventions, and programs

Management• Problem solving

– to develop insights into and appropriate solutions to EH problems

• Economic & political issues– Understand and appropriately use information

about economic and political implications of decision

• Organizational Knowledge and Behavior– Function effectively within the culture or the

organization and to be an effective team player

• Project Management– Plan, implement, and maintain fiscally responsible

programs and projects using skills to prioritize projects

Continued

Management• Computer/Information Technology

– Use information technology as needed to produce a work product

• Recording, documentation & record keeping– Produce reports to document actions, keep

records, and inform appropriate parties

• Collaboration– Form partnerships and alliances with other

individuals and organizations to enhance job performance.

Communication

• Educate– Use the environmental health practitioner’s front-line role to

effectively educate the public on EH issues and the public health rationale for recommendations

• Communicate– Effectively communicate risk and exchange information

with colleagues, other practitioners, clients, policy-makers, interest groups, media and the public through public speaking, pring and electronic media, and interpersonal relations

• Conflict resolution – Facilitate resolutions of conflicts within the agency, in the

community, and with regulated parties

Curriculum

Teach me and I will forget,

Motivate me and I will remember,

Engage me and I will learn.

Confucius