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ForwardNew to Public Health Residency Program 2026-2028: Session 6 - Communicable Disease
OVERVIEW
The New to Public Health Residency Program is an innovative development program designed to build confidence and competency for professionals who are new to public health.
The program is built upon the Foundational Public Health Services Model and develops enhanced knowledge and skills within the foundational areas and capabilities that are essential to public health practice.
The residency program includes an evidence-based practice project, peer networking, mentoring, facilitated reflection and journaling, simulation, and case studies to support the new resident as they transition to practice; while inspiring collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships to promote and protect health at a population level.
STATEMENT OF NEED AND PURPOSE
The residency program is designed to provide new public health professionals the foundational capabilities that are essential to public health practice. Overarching residency curriculum focuses on leadership, professional development, role-specific formation and competency. A residency program bridges the workforce by integrating the knowledge of experienced public health professionals and the fresh ideas of new staff to positively affect population health.
Integration of public health professionals from across jurisdictions allows the new public health professional to understand how diversity in the workforce strengthens essential services across city and county lines, and allows for enhanced networking and future collaboration.
Residency programs supplement state and local orientation programs and build upon department-specific policy, procedures, and tasks, to allow the resident to see a fuller picture of the field of public health.
This contemporary program utilizes a comprehensive practice model that supplements existing knowledge of staff and supports the synthesis of new ideas. The program promotes standardized tools for the participant to customize based on their individual practice.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
This residency program is designed to meet the needs of nurses, social workers, sanitarians, health educators, and other public health professionals that are new to their roles.
ELEMENTS OF COMPETENCE
This continuing education (CE) activity is designed to improve learner competence and focuses on the following areas:
- The American Board of Medical Specialties: Interpersonal communication skills, Professionalism and Systems-based practice
- National Academy of Medicine/Nursing: Employing evidence-based practice, Applying quality improvement, and Population Health
- Interprofessional Education Collaborative Competencies: Values/ethics, Roles/responsibilities, and Interprofessional communication
- Social Impact And Belonging: Engage in Self-reflection, Address Differences in Health Outcomes, and Value Culturally Centered Care.
GLOBAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the residency program, the new public health professional as a member of the interprofessional healthcare team will:
- Apply learned concepts from the Foundational Public Health Services’ model to their public health professional practice.
- Increase knowledge, skills, and confidence for competent public health practice.
- Access tools and resources applicable to public health practice.
- Apply health equity and social justice concepts to public health practice.
- Demonstrate enhanced cultural competency knowledge and skills in their individual practice.
- Research, plan, and present a quality improvement or evidence-based practice project within their local health department or community.
SESSION LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this session, the new public health professional as a member of the interprofessional healthcare team will:
- Explain how public health provides timely, statewide, locally relevant and accurate information to the health care system and community on communicable diseases and their control.
- Discuss how public health identifies statewide and local communicable disease control community partners and their capacities, develops, and implements a prioritized communicable disease control plan and how to seek and security funding for high priority initiatives.
- Describe how public health receives laboratory reports and other relevant data, conducts disease investigations including contacting tracing and notification, and recognizes, identifies, and responds to communicable disease outbreaks for notifiable conditions in accordance with local, national, and state mandates and guidelines.
- Determine how public health assures the availability of partner notification services for newly diagnosed case of syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV according to CDC guidelines.
- Define how public health assures the appropriate treatment of individuals who have reportable communicable diseases, such as TB, STIs, and HIV in accordance with local and state laws and CDC guidelines.
- Explain how public health supports the recognition of outbreaks and other events of public health significance by assuring capacity for the identification and characterization of the causative agents of disease and their origin, including those that are rare and unusual.
- Recognize how public health coordinates and integrates categorically-funded communicable disease programs and services.
- Prioritize and respond to data requests, including vital records, and to translate data into information and reports that are valid, statistically accurate, and accessible to the intended audiences.
- Indicate how a public health organization maintains and procures the hardware and software needed to access electronic health information to support the department's operations and analysis of health data.
- Validate the proper systems and controls are in place to keep health and human resources data confidential in a public health organization.
Reference: https://phnci.org/uploads/resource-files/FPHS-Factsheet-November-2018.pdf
SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION
Residents will view lectures, panel discussions, participate in cased-based and small-group discussions, participation in simulation and skill-based training, and participate in simulation, skill-based training, and gaming activities over a 12 month period of time.
The residency program also includes an evidence-based practice project, peer networking, mentoring, facilitated reflection, journaling to support the new resident as they transition to practice while inspiring collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships to promote and protect health at a population level.
Session Sections
| Session 6: Pre-Test |
| Communicable Disease 101 Module |
| Scavenger Hunt |
| Surveillance and Disease Investigation Module |
| Electronic Health Data |
| Contact Tracing |
| Epidemiology 101 |
| Motivational Interviewing |
| Electronic Disease Surveillance |
| Outbreaks & Investigation |
| Case Study |
| Discussion |
| Tuberculosis 101 |
| Sexually Transmitted Infections |
| Reflection |
| Discussion Post Check In |
| Session 6: Post-Test |
| Session 6: Evaluation |
| References |
CURRENT CONTENT AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS
 | Julianna ManskeNew to Public Health Residency Program ManagerJulianna Manske is the program manager and co-founder of the New to Public Health Residency Program and is employed with the University-Wisconsin Madison School of Nursing. Julianna spearheaded the workgroup in 2016 that developed and implemented the Southeastern Wisconsin Public Health Nurse Residency Program. This program, which ran from 2017-2020, served as a foundation to build the New to Public Health Residency Program, which supports public health professionals in their first year of employment at a local, regional, tribal, or state health department. Julianna serves on the Association of Public Health Nurses’ Board of Directors (Education and Professional Development Committee Chair 2018-2022, Secretary 2022-2023; President rotation 2023-2026). Julianna graduated from Concordia University with a Master of Science in Nursing Education, and Carroll University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Julianna is passionate about workforce development, and she is grateful to work with an incredible team developing and facilitating the New to Public Health Residency Program; and collaborating with public health leaders across the country. |
 | McKenzie LiegelNew to Public Health Residency Program SpecialistMcKenzie Liegel is the Program Specialist with the New to Public Health Residency Program. She received her Masters in Public Health with a focus in Community Health from East Tennessee State University and her BS in Biology from UW Madison. Prior to joining the N2PH team, McKenzie was with the UW Population Health Institute where she worked as a coach for communities across Wisconsin to help them implement policy, systems, and environmental changes and improve health equity. She also focused on public health workforce development and training. McKenzie has previous experience in local governmental public health, working as a Population Health Service Fellow at two LHDs in rural Wisconsin. In her time as a Fellow, she focused on the CHA/CHIP process, COVID-19 response and communications, accreditation, coalition building, and implementing health equity training for staff. She has also served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Appalachian Tennessee, worked on COVID-19 response with WI Department of Health Services, and provided technical assistance around substance misuse for the Opioid Response Network. |
 | Laura SaundersLaura A. Saunders, MSSW is with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering, Center for Health Enhancement System Studies, Great Lakes ATTC, PTTC and MHTTC and an independent consultant. Since 2001, Laura has designed, facilitated, and delivered MI and SBIRT training and coaching in person, online, and via distance learning in the fields of health care, human services, public health, and criminal justice. She has provided feedback and coaching to hundreds of learners who are interested in using evidence based practices to fidelity. Laura has also conducted train the trainer events. She joined the International group of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2006 and is an active Member of Wisconsin Motivational interviewing group. |
 | Ajay SethiAjay Sethi is Faculty Director of the Master of Public Health Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is also a Professor in the Department of Population of Health Sciences. Dr. Ajay Sethi’s research interests lie broadly in the study of infectious diseases. His studies aim to identify modifiable behavioral and structural factors associated with transmission and morbidity and mortality if infection is established. He works in the areas of HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, healthcare-associated infections, the microbiome, and addressing public health misinformation. In 2021, Dr. Sethi received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He received his PhD in Epidemiology and MHS in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received a BS in Physiology from the University of Maryland, College Park. . |
ORIGINAL CONTENT AUTHORS (2021-2025)
 | Hannah HayesHannah Hayes was a co-developer of the New to Public Health Residency Program. In 2018, Hannah completed her Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During that time, Hannah partnered with the Southeastern Wisconsin Public Health Nurse Residency Program, where she assisted in the co-development of a toolkit for the dissemination and implementation of the residency program, which served as the foundation for the New to Public Health Residency Program. Hannah Hayes currently works as a nurse at Access Community Health Center. Hannah graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2016. |
PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Jill Denson, PhD, ABD, MSW, APSW | Deborah Heim, PhD, MS, MN, BSN | Ajay Sethi, PhD, MHS |
Katie Gillespie, DNP, RN, CPH, FAAN | McKenzie Liegel, MPH, CHES |
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Cathy Goodpaster, RDH BS | Julianna Manske, MSN, RN, OCN |
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POLICY ON DISCLOSURE
It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) to identify, mitigate and disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education (CE). In addition, speakers, presenters and authors must disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation.
For this accredited continuing education activity all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated and detailed disclosures are listed below.
*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on, patients.
The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical services directly to patients to be ineligible companies.
See each session for additional information about its faculty.
Name | Role | Financial Relationship Disclosures | Discussion of Unlabeled/Unapproved uses of drugs/devices in presentation? |
| Judith Amorsen | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Beneli Andert | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Linda Baumann | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Mallory Bejster | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Nina Berge | Sub-Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Sanjib Bhattacharyya | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Julie Bigley | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Paula Bizot | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Laura Conklin | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jennifer Cooper | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jill Denson | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Melissa Draper | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | - See session 7 - | - See session 7 - |
| Christopher Fox | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Kiersten Frobom | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Sue Gaard | Sub-Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Gillian Giglierano | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Katie Gillespie | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Cathy Goodpasture | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Joy Harris | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Deborah Heim | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Michael Jaeb | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jessica LeClair | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| McKenzie Liegel | Committee Member, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Julianna Manske | Committee Member, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Rachel Meyer | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Tracy Mrochek | Sub-Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Claire Opsteen | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Rob Poehnelt | Sub-Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jessica Rubenstein | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Laura Saunders | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Kim Schneider | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Tracy Schroepfer | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Ajay Sethi | Committee Member, Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jessica Solcz | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Kelli Stader | Speaker/Author, Peer Reviewer | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Accreditation Statement
 | In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. |
Credit Designation Statements
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this Internet Enduring Material for a maximum of 7.25 ANCC contact hours.
ASWB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) – Social Work Credit
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 7.25 general continuing education credits.
American Dental Association’s Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP)
 | The University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP. The University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) designates this activity for 7.25 continuing education credits. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider, or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP. |
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for .725 CEUs or 7.25 hours.
Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES)
Sponsored by University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 7.25 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Continuing Competency credits available are 7.25.
Available Credit
- 7.25 ADA CERP Continuing Education Credits
- 7.25 ANCC Contact Hours
- 7.25 CECH Approved Credits
- 7.25 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
Registration Information
The New to Public Health Residency Program limits registration to applicants accepted into the program. To learn more or apply to the program, please visit https://new2publichealth.wisc.edu/apply/ or email [email protected].
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