Certification Portal NBPHE Leadership
A LETTER FROM OUR LEADERSHIP
Chair, NBPHE Board of Directors
A strong profession is built on foundational elements like accredited educational pathways, core competencies, defined job profiles, and individual certification. Two decades ago, public health leaders recognized the need to strengthen our professionalism by creating a certification for the field of public health. Today, the Certified in Public Health (CPH) certification stands well-established and respected. It is joined by the Certified in Disease Intervention (CDI) certification that successfully launched in the Spring to validate the skills and knowledge of our field’s disease intervention workforce. These two credentials will soon be joined by the Certified in Public Health Nursing (CPHN) and the Certified in Public Health Essentials (CPHE) credentials that will bring public health certification opportunities to even more public health professionals.
The National Board of Public Health Examiners works to create and maintain a credible, rigorous, and meaningful certification programs that measures our workforce’s knowledge. Guided by a strategic plan to strengthen and expand credentialing in public health, we are diligently creating opportunities to collaborate with partners, practitioners, and stakeholders.
Thanks to the dedication of our board of directors, our testing committees, and numerous NBPHE volunteers, we have created a forward-looking certification program to meet public health needs now and in the future. We are also advancing new initiatives, including a certification for disease intervention professionals, and exploration of a credential for public health nurses and one based on public health essentials.
We believe the future of certification lies with the public health community itself. We invite you to join us on this journey, whether by pursuing certification, advocating for its value, volunteering your expertise, or sharing ideas about how we can better support the profession. Get certified!
We look forward to working with the public health community to bring our goals and ideas to life.
The NBPHE Board of Directors
David Buys, PhD, MSPH, CPH, FGSA
Lori Freeman, MBA
Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN
Jaime Corvin, PhD, MSPH, CPH
Nizar Wehbi, MD, MPH, MBA, FACHE, CPH
Paul Halverson, DrPH, FACHE, CPH
Earl Benjamin-Robinson, DrHSc, CPH, FNAP
Charlene Cariou, MHS, CPH, CHES®
Joseph Kanter, MD, MPH
Joneigh Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP
Laura King, EdD, MPH, MCHES, CPH
Allison Lewis, MA
Laura Magaña, PhD, MS
Shirley Orr, MHS, APRN, NEA-BC
Pauline Rolle, MD, MPH, CPH
Scott Strobel, CDI
NBPHE Staff Members
Allison Foster, MBA, CAE, CPH
Shantal Johnson, BS, CS
Melissa Boyette, CPH
Gillian Plaunt
Abigail Kirby
