Creating Customized Workforce Development Plans for Medium-to-Large Public Health Departments.

Objectives: The objectives of our study were to (1) illustrate a public health workforce assessment process in a medium-sized city or county health department and (2) demonstrate the insights gained by moving from the use of aggregate department-level and competency domain-level training needs results to more granular division-level and skills-level results when creating a workforce development plan.

Methods: We used a 130-question needs assessment to guide the creation of a workforce development plan for the Lincoln Lancaster County Health Department (LLCHD) in Nebraska and its 7 divisions. Using SurveyMonkey, we administered the survey to 128 (of the 129) LLCHD public health staff members in June 2015.

Postpartum contraceptive preferences of HIV-infected women in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and scheduled cesarean deliveries.

Background: We sought to determine if postpartum tubal ligation among HIV-infected women changed with the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and scheduled cesarean delivery.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of HIV-infected women delivered before (Pre-HAART) and after (Post-HAART) the introduction of HAART and scheduled cesarean delivery. Rates of the primary outcome, postpartum tubal ligation (PPTL), were compared by univariable and multivariable analyses.