Academic Public Health Caucus

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2008 Call for Abstracts Academic Public Health Caucus Caucus Purpose The APHA Academic Public Health Caucus is a platform for APHA members to discuss issues of mutual concern regarding academic public health, such as academic public health practice. Specifically, the caucus provides a forum to showcase and learn about innovations in education, training, and academic research not only from public health academicians, but also from practitioners within public health institutions (i.e., federal, state, regional, local, private sector or non-profit organizations) that administer or participate in academic/practice partnerships. Abstract Submission Abstracts are solicited for oral or poster session formats. Consideration will be given to abstracts that (a) promote the caucus purpose; (b) address one or more of the caucus’ 2008 topic areas; and, (c) fulfill the abstract criteria. Competencies, Credentialing, and Accreditation: Current and emerging issues on the relationships among competency, credentials and accreditation and the impact of these on public health practice Evaluation of Preparedness Training For Current and/or Future Public Health Workers Partnerships to Improve the Public Health Workforce and Infrastructure Pathways to Public Health Careers: Innovative programs and/or resources that have been shown to be successful in interesting youth (K-12, undergraduates) and/or others (e.g., graduate students, mid-career professionals) in public health careers (and the tools/studies done to document effectiveness/success) Practice-based Research: Current trends in the conduct and translation of scholarly, practice-based research and the subsets of practice-based research (e.g., systems research, community-based participatory, etc.) Public Health Practice-Based Faculty: Recruitment, Retention, and Innovation DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 12, 2008 - Midnight, EST.
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Program Planner Contact Information: Gillian Silver, MPH Association of Schools of Public Health 1101 15th Street, NW Suite 910 washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-296-1099 Fax: 202-293-1252 gsilver@asph.org