Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: an interpretive description of practitioners’ perspectives in Canada
We need integrated, systems-focused approaches to digital competencies cutting across the current public health curriculum, while creating space for specialized digital public health competencies and roles. Further research is needed to understand requirements for enacting these recommendations in practice.
Authors
- Geoffrey McKee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-2454)
- Hugh Davies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8258-6890)
- Swathi Ramachandran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7448-4031)
- André Kushniruk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2557-9288)
- Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3667-6411)
- Mark Gilbert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5978-6843)
- Ihoghosa Iyamu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0271-9468)
- Catherine Worthington (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3075-8229)
- Adalsteinn Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4792-5938)
- Hsiu-Ju Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0369-2407)
Institutions
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of Victoria (CA)
- BC Centre for Disease Control (CA)
- Public Health Ontario (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-01-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-21089-1
- Citations
- 16
- Primary Topic
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 45.05
Funders
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research