Sue Ann Sarpy

Sarpy and Associates, LLC

(1) Background: In this case study, we examined the safety-training-related experiences of individuals from six racial-ethnic groups (Asians (Vietnamese), Blacks, Hispanics, Isleños, Native Americans, and Whites) involved in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (2) Methods: We assessed, via a survey, 495 disaster response trainees’ react...

Social Network Analysis has been posited as a useful technique to determine if leadership development programs are an effective intervention in developing social ties and enhancing connectivity among leaders in an organization. Evaluations can examine the extent to which the leadership development programs create and catalyze peer networks. This st...

ID: 2017-197 In response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and resulting Gulf of Mexico oil spill (GOS), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) facilitated the conduct of health and safety training and development of training materials for over 147,000 cleanup workers (e.g., on-shore and off-shore volunteers, technical spec...

In response to the mental health effects seen in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) designed and delivered mental health resilience training for workers in the Gulf. The need for rigorous evaluations of disaster response trainings, such as those provided by the NIEHS Gulf Res...

Following the devastation of hurricane Sandy, immigrant day laborers provided much of the post-disaster clean-up support in the affected areas of New York and New Jersey. Due to a shortage of qualified bilingual trainers, the immigrant day laborers did not receive critical health and safety training needed to adequately prepare them to safely parti...

The need for rigorous evaluations for objectively evaluating the program effectiveness of various health and safety and emergency preparedness and disaster response training is long established. In response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences facilitated the presentation of health and safety tr...

To date, relatively few studies have evaluated the effects of public health leadership programs on workforce development. The present evaluation process was designed to provide both quantitative and qualitative evidence of the extent to which the State Health Leadership Initiative (SHLI), developed and presented by the Association of State and Terr...

I have been asked to be a discussant for this presentation on the topic of public health leadership development evaluation models and methods due to my background and experience in public health and evaluation methods as well as my position as the Research and Evaluation Committee Chair for the NLN. The session will include a panel discussion of in...

The need for rigorous comprehensive evaluations for objectively evaluating the program effectiveness of various health and safety and emergency preparedness and disaster response training is long established. In particular, research has called for training evaluation systems that provide evidence of the training effectiveness from the perspectives...

Social relationships and related networks among public health leaders at the local level are critical to the leaders' success as top executives of local health departments. Cultivating these relationships is particularly important during the early stages of the new Local Health Officials' (LHOs) tenure. The Survive and Thrive program was developed...

The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) addresses critical workforce development issues directly affecting disadvantaged worker populations. The CPWR Minority Worker Training (MWT) program provides health and safety training and placements for minority workers into jobs in the construction industry. In 2008, the CPWR developed gree...

There is a need for programs tailored to train the approximately 300 new local health officials (LHOs) who emerge each year with the knowledge and skills needed to build, maintain, and enhance public health capacity and infrastructure. The Survive and Thrive program incorporates a curriculum that is designed to address the challenges faced by a new...

The Survive and Thrive program was designed in response to a need for action-oriented programs that are tailored to train new Local Health Officials in developing and applying effective strategies and solutions to various local-level challenges. More specifically, the Survive and Thrive program was developed to increase the competence and skills of...

Recent research indicates that approximately one third of Local Health Officials (LHO) have been employed in their position at Local Health Departments (LHD) two years or less. In addition, the "aging" of the public health workforce over the next several years will evidence unprecedented openings in public health leadership positions. These finding...

Using data from 68 organizations embedded within 14 nations, we examined hypotheses concerning the moderating roles of national culture and organizational climate on the transfer of training to the work context. A dimension of national culture, uncertainty avoidance, moderated the transfer of safety training with regard to reducing accidents and in...

We sought to determine the relative effectiveness of different methods of worker safety and health training aimed at improving safety knowledge and performance and reducing negative outcomes (accidents, illnesses, and injuries). Ninety-five quasi-experimental studies (n=20991) were included in the analysis. Three types of intervention methods were...

In response to recent public health threats and disasters, greater emphasis has been placed on the use of exercises and drills to improve individual performance and enhance capacity of the public health workforce. However, despite the increased application of these exercises, rigorous research regarding their appropriate development and relative ef...

In response to recent public health threats and disasters, greater emphasis has been placed on the use of exercises and drills to improve individual performance and enhance capacity of the public health workforce. However, despite the increased application of these exercises, rigorous research regarding their appropriate development and relative ef...

The South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness (SCCPHP) is a collaboration among the schools of public health at Tulane University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the state health departments in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The SCCPHP provides competency-based training via distant delivery methods to prepa...

Efforts aimed at enhancing the knowledge of target populations constitute a widely used public health intervention strategy with the ultimate goal of improving health. However, integral to planning, implementing, and evaluating educational programs is identifying the knowledge base of the intended recipient. Improving health through educational int...

In this investigation, we report the results of 2 studies designed to (a) conduct confirmatory factor analytic tests of a model of general safety performance with performance ratings from 550 coworker appraisals (Study 1), and (b) examine hypothesized relationships between indicators of breadth and depth of knowledge constructs and confirmed safety...