Supproting Statement A - Summary

New Requirements for Supporting Statement A

GenIC

Request for Approval under the

Generic Clearance for the Collection of Routine Customer Feedback

OMB Number 0920-1050

• Goal of the study (e.g., determine behavioral factors that influence changes in weight over time or evaluate program delivery processes):
  
  
  

The purpose of this survey is to plan for retention of recruited Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI) Placements in public health beyond the project.

This survey supports the CDC-funded WAI, implemented by CDC Foundation through the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), to recruit, hire, and place 127 technology and data experts directly in 49 diverse public health agencies to accelerate their priority information system improvements, strengthen the public health workforce at all levels, and advance progress towards Public Health Data Strategy (PHDS) goals.

• Intended use of the resulting data (e.g., provide suggestions for improving community-based programs):

To ascertain PHAs’ plans to retain Placements beyond the funding period.

• Methods to be used to collect (e.g., prospective cohort design; randomized trial; etc.):

Combination open-ended, Likert scale, and 5-point questions to each of the 49 public health agencies receiving WAI placements.

• The subpopulation to be studied (e.g., school-age children in North Carolina, conference attendees):

State, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies

• How data will be analyzed (e.g., logistic regression, descriptive statistics):

Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis based on open-ended and closed-scale responses.

Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI) Retention Survey