1. Maintaining the CPH Credential:
Recertification Update
Presenter: Molly M. Eggleston,
MPH, MCHES, CPH
Executive Director
June 22, 2012

2. Why maintain your CPH?
 Allows for continued recognition in your
profession
 Meets benchmarks set in other health
professions
 Assures the communities that you serve of
your currency

3. CPH and Your Career
You are committed to the public health
profession.
You will excel in the field through
your work and actions.
You take every opportunity to further
your education and grasp of current
issues in the field.

4. What‘s Required to
Maintain My CPH Status?
1. Obtain and document 50 hours of
continuing education / 2 years.
2. Pay recertification fee ($95 USD / 2
years).
3. Adhere to Code of Ethics

5. Only counts if focused on CPH
area(s) of competency
 Domain Areas:  Cross-Cutting Domains:
1) Biostatistics 1) Communication and
2) Environmental Informatics
Health Sciences 2) Diversity and Culture
3) Epidemiology 3) Leadership
4) Health Policy and 4) Public Health Biology
Management 5) Professionalism
5) Social and 6) Program Planning
Behavioral Sciences 7) Systems Thinking

6. Find Credits & Providers

7. Find Approved Activities

8. Where can I find
Pre-approved providers?

9. What if not pre-approved?
For activities offered Assess each session
by providers which for relevance to a
are NOT pre- CPH domain.
approved, 1 CPH Exclude general
credit for each full sessions, breaks,
clock hour, up to a duty-free meals,
maximum of 8 social events, &
credits for each full- housekeeping
day program. remarks.

10. Review
 Articulate the  Identify at least 3
number of CPHCE pre-approved
hours required providers of
every two years to CPHCE.
maintain the CPH.

11. Attendance at Public Health
Professional Events
 Conferences Includes face-to-face,
audio/videoconference,
 workshops and online delivery
 webinars Credits earned:
 Leadership Determined by pre-
institutes approved providers OR
1 CPH credit for each
 Seminars full clock hour, up to a
maximum of 8 credits
for each full-day
program.

12. Do online trainings count?
 Yes!  Online learning is
an acceptable
modality to maintain
the CPH credential.
 Use the guidance
for "Attendance at
Public Health
Professional
Events”

13. College or University Courses
 Graduate-level  Take & pass for
college or university academic credit at a
courses (face-to- CEPH accredited
face, independent institution. 3 CPH
study/corresponden recert credits /
ce, online, summer semester-long class
institute) or summer program;
2 CPH recert credits
/ trimester or
quarter-long class.

14. Writing or Professional
Contribution
6 credits each for: 10 credits each for:
 participation in a  peer-reviewed
formal public health article, chapter or
mentoring program book…
 full day training or  grant application or
site visit (CEPH, review
CAHME or PHAB)  dissertation
 new multi-day
course.

15. Professional Contribution -
Authorship
 10 credits for each peer-reviewed article,
chapter or book written and published
(limited to authors who made substantial
contribution to published document.) Our
intention has been to award credit to
"Primary" authors - meaning the ones who
actually wrote the article (as opposed to
“first” authors which implies they are listed
first). The principle is how much you
contributed, not how you are listed.

16. 1 day Instruction
 4 credits for each new one day workshop or
seminar that is instructed.
 Workshop/seminar must be newly developed
and delivered by CPH to be eligible for credit
(limit of one per recertification period)

17. Presentation or Guest Lecture in
Formal Public Health Setting
 1 credit each
 E.g. . APHA or other membership
organization for health professionals, CSTE,
an NGO such as the Red Cross, a
governmental health ministry, UN, WHO,
Grand Round at a Hospital.

18. Reading of Peer-Reviewed
Literature
Through pre-approved Literature must
providers only! include a
comprehension
1 CPH credit / piece of evaluation by a pre-
peer-reviewed public approved provider
health literature on
areas of CPH
and a passing score
competency. must be earned.

19. Item writer for CPH exam or CPH
study guide
Through pre-approved
providers only!

20. Service Activities (max 20/
recertification period)
 1 credit /hour of  Non-compensated
service activities public health service
 2 recertification to other than
credits / each employer (e.g.,
leadership position service as a board
(e.g. board or member for a public
committee chair) health organization,
volunteering at a
public health service
event, etc.)

21. When do I start earning
& reporting CPH?
Cohort of 2008 Cohorts of 2008 + 2010 –
 Deadline was Feb 2012
6/30/12  January 1, 2012 -
December 31, 2013
Cohort of 2009
 January 1, 2011 -
December 31, 2012

22. Extension!
 3 Month Extension = $25 USD
 6 Month Extension = $50 USD
 Reactivation Fee = $100 USD

23. Do CPHCE hours “roll over”
from 1 cycle to the next?
No.

24. Online Recert & Reporting System

25. Do CME, CNE, CECH, CVE, CLE,
ABIH hours count for CPH?
Learning activity
must address
one of the
domains tested
by the CPH
exam (pre-
approved or
not)

26. Code of Ethics
 Place the safety and health of the public
above all other interests.
 Demonstrate integrity, honesty and fairness
in all activities and strive for excellence in all
matters of ethical conduct.
 Maintain competency requirements through
recertification. …

27. Review
 Identify CPH professionals as an audience
for professional development and ongoing
health education.

28. Staying Certified! at
www.nbphe.org