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AI# 10605
Regular City Council Meeting
7.26.
04/12/2022:
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Agenda Item
Resolution - Public Health Services:
Consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute a Letter of Affiliation, and all related documents, by and between the City of Lubbock and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, on behalf of its School of Public Health's Gaining Equity in Training for Public Health Informatics and Technology (GET PHIT) Program, for the purpose of placing students in public health informatics internships at the City of Lubbock Health Department.
Item Summary
This agreement will allow the Health Department to be a host site for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health's Gaining Equity in Training for Public Health Informatics and Technology (GET PHIT) program. The program was developed to expand the number of public health professionals trained in health informatics and technology. The program will train students from underrepresented backgrounds to fill a variety of public health roles, while building skills, competencies, foundational knowledge and hands-on activities in public health Informatics. As a host site the health department will provide supervision for the student's internship experience. The student will complete a project for the health department utilizing health information and technology skills.
Fiscal Impact
None
Staff/Board Recommending
Bill Howerton, Deputy City Manager
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