HealthIT Answers August 8, 2023
By Sherilyn Pruitt, ONC
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Sherilyn Pruitt is a senior advisor within ONC’s office of technology and is also the co-lead for the Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program.
1. Tell us about some of the projects or initiatives that you lead.
The program that I am most excited about is the Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program that I co-lead with Maggie Wanis from ONC’s office of policy. The goal of the program is to train more than 4,000 individuals to strengthen U.S. public health informatics efforts, improve nationwide public health data collection and analysis, and increase representation of underrepresented communities within the public health IT workforce.
I also serve on the Federal Interagency...