The Cardiovascular Health Practitioner's Institute is a 5 ½ day training program for professionals from State Health Departments and the American Heart Association. The goal is to enhance these professionals abilities to coordinate, develop, and evaluate public health programs that address cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and control, the reduction of related risk factors and the promotion of cardiovascular health. The CVHPI is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the American Heart Association (AHA), the Chronic Disease Directors (CDD), and the University of Rochester. The Director of the Institute is Dr. Thomas A. Pearson, Chair of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester.
The genesis of the CVHPI was a recent turnaround in cardiovascular disease rates from a decline to an increase, in both the United States and abroad. In addition, the CDC and the AHA felt the necessity to pool their efforts at the state level to energize the movement to bring cardiovascular disease rates down once again.
Two fellows from each state will be represented by one manager-level member from the State Health Department and one program-manager from the AHA affiliate will partner to implement CVD programs in the state. Public health workers from selected countries outside the U.S. will also participate. The program will improve these fellows' knowledge, attitudes, and skills in key health promotion activities: partnership building and maintenance, creating a vision, communication and social marketing, advocacy, policy-making, environmental change, surveillance, community assessment, and evaluation. The program provides ample time for individual instruction and consultation with an international faculty, CDC personnel, and AHA staff. This program will be evaluated as to whether key learning objectives have been fulfilled.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| American Heart Association |
| Chronic Disease Directors |
| University of Rochester |
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