The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: A Fundamental Necessity: The Central Role of Academic-Practice Linkages for Workforce Development
4171.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
A Fundamental Necessity: The Central Role of Academic-Practice Linkages for Workforce Development
This session will present the goals, objectives, and approaches to training the public health workforce through academic practice linkages. A discussion will occur on how linkages can expand the knowledge and understanding of researchers and practitioners and contribute to public health infrastructure. Moreover, there will be examples of academic/practice linkages addressing workforce development. This will include a description of the projects along with the successes, difficulties, unexpected outcomes of the collaborations, and a follow-up on long-term outcomes. Focusing on a whole community incorporating diversity, and based on a reasonable core of shared values among an array of ethnic groups, one health department’s creative training program on community-professional partnership will be highlighted. Through this “teaching health department,” community hospitals, community health centers, schools of medicine and osteopathy, public health, nursing and pharmacy are coming together in coalition to bring medicine, public health, and the community together.
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe methods of building individual state capacity for workforce development through academic and practice partnerships. 2. Identify potential difficulties that may be encountered when engaging in academic practice partnerships. 3. Describe how a standard county health department can be turned into a teaching environment for multi-disciplinary health professionals through the creation of a teaching health department in partnership with the community and academia.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Ron Bialek, MPP
2:30 PMStrengthening Workforce Development Systems: A Distinctive Approach to Training the Public Health Workforce Through State Training Capacity Building
Janet L. Place, MPH, Mary Davis, DrPH, MSPH
2:50 PMIntegration of the Core Competencies into Academic Training Programs
Chris L. Day, MPH, Ron Bialek, MPP
3:10 PMWorforce development: Tools and examples for linking academia and practice
Chris L. Day, MPH, Ron Bialek, MPP
3:30 PMStrengthening the public health workforce infrastructure in Maricopa County, Arizona: Creating a teaching local health deparment
Jonathan B. Weisbuch, MD, MPH, James Allen, MD, MPH, Hugh Fulmer, MD, MPH
Organized by:Academic Public Health Caucus
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Nursing
Outside sponsors:Association of Schools of Public Health
CE Credits:CME, Chiropractic, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA