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Dragonfly
Winter 2002 -- Volume 33, Number 1 |
CDCynergy is a program for public health professionals that guides them through 52 steps of a communication intervention and offers context-sensitive published information at every step. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed the program in order to improve the reliance of public health workers on the best theories and practices, augmented with evidence-based information. Core documents--public policies, classic theories, standard methodologies--are all included, as are hundreds of examples of communication interventions. Multimedia is used extensively to offer video explanations by experts in the field and public service messages for both radio and TV. The program also links to documents and examples on the web.
In order to train public health professionals to use CDCynergy, CDC has contracted with the Society of Public Health Educators (SOPHE) to provide trainers. Nancy Press, RML Consumer Health Coordinator, was chosen by the Pacific Northwest Regional Chapter of SOPHE to represent the chapter at a train-the-trainer session at CDC in February and then to be the trainer for the Pacific Northwest on behalf of SOPHE.
Nancy was the only librarian at the train-the-trainer session. Most of the other 24 participants were public health department workers, private public health consultants, and university public health faculty planning to use CDCynergy as their course curriculum.
CDC is developing 16 different variants of CDCynergy. Currently available are versions highlighting interventions in Micronutrients, Diabetes, Immunization, and Cardiovascular Health. CDCynergy will also be put up on the web within the next year. Dr. Galen Cole of CDC, who led the development of the CDCynergy, is interested in collaborating with the National Library of Medicine and with librarians in development and implementation of future versions of CDCynergy.
Dragonfly, Winter, 2002
-- Volume 33, Number 1
(posted on PNRNews April 1, 2002)
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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