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Kansas
Department of Health & Environment
Bill Graves, Governor
Clyde D. Graeber, Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 12, 2001
Contact: Mike Heideman, 785-296-5795
Twenty-one public health professionals representing local and state agencies from across Kansas were honored as the first graduates of the Kansas Public Health Certificate Program at a ceremony held on December 5 in Topeka.
The new certificate program is a joint effort of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Kansas Association of Local Health Departments (KALHD) and the University of Kansas Public Management Center. Graduates completed a year of study in the areas of leadership, population health, and environmental health. The modules included a wide variety of topics, ranging from public health law to emerging public health issues and infectious diseases.
According to Dr. Michael Moser, Director of the Division of Health, Kansas
Department of Health and Environment, "With their work in this program,
these graduates have developed an enhanced skill set to enable them to improve
the health status of the public in their communities, as well as a framework
to better assess and respond to new and emerging public health threats such
as bioterrorism."
The Kansas Health Foundation provided full scholarships to certificate program
students currently employed in local health departments in Kansas.