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Recorded presentation

Anne Lusk, MAT, MS, PhD, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Bldg 2, Room 341, Boston, MA 02115, 617-432-7076, annelusk@hsph.harvard.edu

To incorporate the built environment, three models exist in which public health departments: 1) partner with other departments (architecture, urban planning); 2) invite guest lecturers or grant collaborators from different colleges or who are practitioners; and 3) organize a course on the built environment. This session will elaborate on a 4th consideration, inviting a built environment expert to work within a school of public health. Described in detail will be three ways to secure and support a built environment expert. One case study of a Visiting Scientist Architecture Ph.D. invited to a School of Public Health will demonstrate outcomes: a joint public health and architecture conference, lectures/symposia/classes/student group talks, receipt of non-public health grants, research conducted on the built environment using public health literature, the development of an Active Place Design Competition judged in the public health school lobby, development of a Physical Design Rating (PAD) rating system applied to a proposed public health campus, and the formation of a built environment course. Weaknesses of this venture include determining an appropriate title for someone degreed in another field, securing grants for self-sufficiency, and the person's need to be well-connected in a variety of fields. Strengths can be found in grants sought outside public health, serving as a personal bridge to other departments, easing the time burden on tenured public health faculty, offering new research approaches, and conducting applied/action research to better guarantee results in the built environment.

Learning Objectives:

• List 4 ways to incorporate the built environment in the public health realm.
• Describe 3 alternatives to invite and support a permanent or visiting scientist/scholar in the built environment field to a school of public health.
• Discuss the outcomes in one case study of a visiting scientist Architecture Ph.D. who was invited to a school of public health.
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of this new system of partnering.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation