3285.0 Partnerships to Improve the Public Health Workforce and Infrastructure

Monday, October 27, 2008: 2:30 PM
Oral
Public health practice, at state and local levels, is critical to our nation's public health. Academia, with its research advances, as well as the education of students and the future workforce, is a critical partner.
Session Objectives: Articulate several ways that partnerships between practice and academia can help improve public health. Identify several public health practice and academia partnerships. Discuss how partnerships between academia and practice can help to address heatlh inequities and preparedness.
Moderator:
Gillian Silver, MPH

2:30 PM
Partnerships in public health: A model of integrated theory and practice
Buffy Bunting, MPH, CHES, Jessica Wolin, MPH, Vickie Quijano, MPH, Lisa Dorothy Moore, DrPH and Mary Beth Love, PhD
2:45 PM
Assessing local health department capacity to address health inequities: Organizational self assessment tool
Edith Cabuslay, MPH, Kate Clayton, MPH, Mary Anne Morgan, MPH, Virginia Smyly, MPH, CHES, Frima Stewart, MSW, Kimi Watkins-Tartt, J. T. Taylor, MPP MPH and Njoke Thomas, MSPH
  
3:00 PM
Measuring the health of a county: An academic-practice partnership for leveraging resources
Erin E. Rothney, MPH, Ryan T. Isakson, BS, JoLynn P. Montgomery, MPH, PhD, Natasha J. V. Coulouris, MPH, Matthew L. Boulton, MD, MPH and Amy N. Sarigiannis, MPH
  
3:15 PM
Integrating public health into incident command training
Amy N. Sarigiannis, MPH, Angela J. Beck, MPH, CHES, JoLynn P. Montgomery, MPH, PhD, Matthew L. Boulton, MD, MPH, Martha Stanbury, MSPH and Susan Manente, MAOM, PEM
3:30 PM
Local governments: Critical partners in Pennsylvania's Public Health Infrastructure
Patricia Sweeney, JD, MPH, RN and Elizabeth Ferrell Bjerke, JD
  

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Organized by: Academic Public Health Caucus

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