Digital Competencies and Training Approaches to Enhance the Capacity of Practitioners to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Rapid Review of Current Recommendations

Swathi Ramachandran   ¹ , BDS, MSc ;   Hsiu-Ju Chang   ¹ , MSc ;   Catherine Worthington   ² , PhD ;   Andre Kushniruk   ³ , BSc, BA, MSc, PhD ;   Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco   ⁴ , PhD ;   Hugh Davies   ⁵ , PhD ;   Geoffrey McKee   ^{5, 6} , MD, MPH ;   Adalsteinn Brown   ⁴ , DPhil ;   Mark Gilbert   ^{1, 5 *} , MD ;   Ihoghosa Iyamu   ^{1, 5 *} , MD, MDICHA, PhD

¹ Clinical Prevention Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada

² School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

³ School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁶ Population and Public Health, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada

*these authors contributed equally