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Building Health Promotion Capacity in Developing Countries: Strategies From 60 Years of Experience in the United States

Sustainable Management Development Program, Division of Global Public Health Capacity Development, Coordinating Office for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, ehowze{at}cdc.gov

M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES

Society for Public Health Education, Washington, D.C.

Lynn D. Woodhouse, MEd, EdD, MPH

Academic Affairs and Community Health Education and Behavior, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro

Jessica Gershick, MS, CHES

Office of Health and Safety, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

William C. Livingood, PhD

Duval County (Florida) Health Department, Institute for Health, Policy and Evaluation Research, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville

The Galway Consensus Conference articulated key definitions, principles, values, and core domains of practice as the foundation for the diffusion of health promotion across the globe. The conference occurred in the context of an urgent need for large numbers of trained health workers in developing countries, which face multiple severe threats to the health of their people. In this article, the authors draw on the experience acquired by the health promotion profession in the United States to illustrate what might be done to build health promotion capacity in developing countries. They examine the profession's experience in the areas of accreditation and certification, research and publications, advocating for the profession, and advocating for public health policy. Finally, the authors direct a challenge to the profession in the United States to extend a hand to developing countries to assist them in expanding their capacity to prepare health promotion professionals and deliver health promotion services.

Key Words: accreditation • capacity development • certification • competencies • education and training • health education • health promotion • international health • social jurisdiction • workforce development

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 36, No. 3, 464-475 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1090198109333825


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