Jennifer M Freiheit- PhD
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Jennifer M Freiheit
- PhD
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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Introduction
Jennifer Freiheit, PhD, MCHES, has worked in state and local public health leadership roles since 2002 and has been a public health consultant for the past 10 years through her company, Bay View Advanced Management, LLC. While working, she earned her doctorate in the Department of Administrative Leadership, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and is looking to transition into a new career. She has a strong commitment to developing research that impacts public health practice. Her research interests fall under health policy, leadership, and administration with an agenda that includes workforce development (specifically new employee socialization, professional identity, systems thinking, and competency-based trainings) and emergency preparedness and response including media coordination.
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Public health is in unstable times with funding decreasing, an exodus of retirees, and a paradigm shift with emergency preparedness and response critically changing the identity of the profession. Public health is at a grave trigger point where if something is not done, the entire field may be in jeopardy of caving in to consolidations, poor succes...
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This study evaluated the impact of a novel multimethod curricular intervention using a train-the-trainer model: the Public Health Infrastructure Training (PHIT). PHIT was designed to 1) modify perceptions of self-efficacy, response efficacy, and threat related to specific hazards and 2) improve the willingness of local health departmen...
A psychometrically valid measure of perceived mentoring expectations congruency between a mentor and protégé in a mentoring relationship was developed. Using a scale created with a panel of experts and tested with two professional cohorts, exploratory factor analysis led to the identification of a reliably strong, one-dimension, four-item instrumen...
This study examines the attitudinal impact of an Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM)-based training curriculum on local public health department (LHD) workers' willingness to respond to representative public health emergency scenarios. Data are from 71 U.S. LHDs in urban and rural settings across nine states. The study explores changes in respon...
The all-hazards willingness to respond (WTR) of local public health personnel is critical to emergency preparedness. This study applied a threat-and efficacy-centered framework to characterize these workers' scenario and jurisdictional response willingness patterns toward a range of naturally-occurring and terrorism-related emergency scenarios.
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