Key competency areas
The curriculum covers nine broad competency areas. These nine key areas relate to the three domains of public health practice (health protection, health improvement and service quality) and are derived from a description of what a consultant in public health is able to do, in what setting and how they deliver their service.
The nine key areas are:
- Key Area 1: Surveillance and assessment of the population's heath and wellbeing.
- Key Area 2: Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, programmes and services.
- Key Area 3: Policy and strategy development and implementation.
- Key Area 4: Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health.
- Key Area 5: Health Improvement.
- Key Area 6: Health Protection.
- Key Area 7: Health and Social Service Quality.
- Key Area 8: Public Health Intelligence.
- Key Area 9: Academic Public Health.
