Evidence-Based Approaches to Public Health

• Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.
• Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, and computer-based programming and software, as appropriate.
• Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.

Public Health & Healthcare Systems

• Compare the organization, structure, and function of healthcare, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings.
• Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.

Planning & Management to Promote Health

• Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health.
• Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs.
• Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.
• Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.
• Select methods to evaluate public health programs.

Policy in Public Health

• Discuss multiple dimensions of the policymaking process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.
• Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
• Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
• Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.

Leadership

• Apply principles of leadership, governance, and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration, and guiding decisionmaking.
• Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.

Communication

• Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.
• Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
• Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.

Interprofessional Practice

• Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.

 Systems Thinking

• Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue.

Domain I: Genetics Expertise and Analysis

• Demonstrate and utilize a depth and breadth of understanding and knowledge of genetics and genomics core concepts and principles.
• Integrate knowledge of psychosocial aspects of conditions with a genetic component to promote client well-being.
• Construct relevant, targeted, and comprehensive personal and family histories and pedigrees.
• Identify, assess, facilitate, and integrate genetic testing options in genetic counseling practice.
• Assess individuals’ and their relatives’ probability of conditions with a genetic component or carrier status based on their pedigree, test result(s), and other pertinent information.
• Demonstrate the skills necessary to successfully manage a genetic counseling case.
• Critically assess genetic/genomic, medical, and social science literature and information.

Domain II: Interpersonal, Psychosocial, and Counseling Skills

• Establish a mutually agreed-upon genetic counseling agenda with the client.
• Employ active listening and interviewing skills to identify, assess, and empathically respond to stated and emerging concerns.
• Use a range of genetic counseling skills and models to facilitate informed decisionmaking and adaptation to genetic risks or conditions.
• Promote client-centered, informed, noncoercive, and value-based decisionmaking.
• Understand how to adapt genetic counseling skills for varied service delivery models.
• Apply genetic counseling skills in a culturally responsive and respectful manner to all clients.

Domain III: Education

• Effectively educate clients about a wide range of genetics and genomics information based on their needs, their characteristics, and the circumstances of the encounter.
• Write concise and understandable clinical and scientific information for audiences of varying educational backgrounds.
• Effectively give a presentation on genetics, genomics, and genetic counseling issues.

Domain IV: Professional Development & Practice

• Act in accordance with the ethical, legal, and philosophical principles and values of the genetic counseling profession and the policies of one’s institution or organization.
• Demonstrate understanding of the research process.
• Advocate for individuals, families, communities, and the genetic counseling profession.
• Demonstrate a self-reflective, evidenced-based, and current approach to genetic counseling practice.
• Understand the methods, roles, and responsibilities of the process of clinical supervision of trainees.
• Establish and maintain professional interdisciplinary relationships in both team and one-on-one settings, and recognize one’s role in the larger healthcare system.