These self-assessment survey tools were designed to:
Each competency combines knowledge, attitudes and skills that are important for public health practice.
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Select a survey link below depending on your specific public health role
| Category | Relevant occupations | Competencies |
| Public Health/Health Protection Leaders | (department head, bureau chief, division chief, director, and deputy director.) | 68 |
| Public Health Clinical Staff | (nurse, dentist, physician, anyone employed to give direct clinical care in a public health program.) | 30 |
| Public Health Communicable Disease Staff | (specifically outbreak investigator and epidemiologist, but includes those working with health outcomes, program evaluation, immunization data, disease identification, reporting, and prevention. May also include those trained in medicine, nursing or environmental health.) | 40 |
| Environmental Health Staff | (environmental researcher, environmental health specialist, food scientist, soil and plant scientist, air pollution specialist, hazardous materials specialist, toxicologist, water/waste water solid specialist, sanitarian, and entomologist.) | 26 |
| Public Health Laboratory Staff | (microbiologist, chemist, toxicologist, physicist, virologist, entomologist and non-specified laboratory professionals with a minimum qualification of a BSc) | 34 |
| Medical Examiner or Coroner | (responsible for investigating sudden or violent deaths and for providing accurate, legally defensible determinations of the causes of these deaths.) | 20 |
| Public Health Information Staff | (public relations, media relations, advocacy, health promotion, spokesperson.) | 29 |
| Other Public Health Professional Staff | (professional occupations not described above, such as health educators, legal professionals, financial officers, and others.) | 15 |
| Technical and Other Support Staff | (bookkeepers, messengers, clerk-typists, stenographers, court transcribers, hearing reporters, statistical clerks, dispatchers, license distributors, payroll clerks, office machine and computer operators, telephone operators, legal assistants, etc.) | 14 |
| Public Health Medicine Specialists | This additional survey is specifically for Public Health Medicine Specialists and relates to health protection, risk management and infectious diseases. People attempting this brief survey should also complete one of the above surveys. | 15 |
These self-assessment surveys are designed to ascertain the state of preparedness of the bioterrorism response community in Australia and elsewhere. Information gained from this study will help us understand the knowledge baseline (what we know now) so that training programs can be evaluated to see if they have improved our competencies. The results from these surveys will be made publicly available in summary form so that Australia and other participating countries may gain a greater understanding of their state of bioterrorism preparedness.
Human Ethics Committee: If the participants have any questions regarding the ethical conduct of the research project, they may contact the Human Ethics Committee. You need to include the contact details of the Ethics Officer. Contact details are: Tina Langford, Ethics Officer, Research Office, James Cook University, Townsville Qld 4811. Phone: (07) 4781 4342 Fax: (07) 4781 5521 Email: Tina.Langford@jcu.edu.au.
Competency material on this page and on linked survey pages was sourced from: CDC. 2002. Bioterrorism & emergency readiness: competencies for all public health workers. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and AFPHM. 2006. Competencies for public health medicine training and practice in New Zealand (Draft). The Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine.
