Framing the Future: The Second Hundred Years of Education for

Public HealthDonna Petersen, ScD, MHS

March 6, 2012League for Innovation in the Community College

Innovations 2012 ConferencePhiladelphia, PA

Task Force

Chaired by:

Donna Petersen, University of South Florida College of Public Health; Chair, ASPH

Education Committee

Populated by:

38 representatives from academic, government, private, non-profit, and health professional associations

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Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)

Background

• Public health practice and public health education have changed enormously since the Welch-Rose Report in 1915

Background, Continued

• Undergraduate public health education is booming

• Professional doctoral degrees in the health professions are multiplying

• The IOM has called for an educated citizenry in public health and, separately, for more effective interprofessional education and practice in the health professions

Background, Continued

• Both health and non-health professions are seeking to integrate more public health content in their academic programs

• Academe is continuing to honor its historic commitment to the traditional public health workforce

• Other sectors, including the community at large, are increasingly calling for public health guidance in, and more familiarity with, whole-person, prevention-oriented, and population health concepts

Background, Continued

• Fellow health professions desire more team-based, interprofessional collaboration with public health

• Global health is becoming more prominent as is the globalization of public health education and practice

• The structure of education and its delivery and access points are undergoing rapid transformations

Task Force Charge

To reconsider the role of public health education 100 years after the Welch-Rose Report

and

to set a new vision for public health education in the future

Aim

Recommendations for 21st century models of public health education, including:

- Undergraduate public health

- Graduate-level public health

- Articulation among the degrees in public health

- Global and interprofessional issues

- Workforce preparation and practice

- Competencies and credentialing

How to Implement the Charge

The task force’s vision will be developed through engaged discussion and extensive dialogue with the full range of public health constituencies:

1. Task Force members are fanning out to various groups to communicate the initiative

2. The website and blog provide important means of communication and listening

3. Carefully selected subcommittees and/or expert panels may be assigned to work on particular areas

1st Provocative Question on the Blog

“What do you believe should be the

essential elements of a newly designed public health education

system in the 21st century United States?”

For More Information

Can vary by group

http://www.asph.org/FramingtheFuture

Read and Comment on the Blog

http://framingpublichealtheducation.typepad.com/

Thank you!

Questions, comments, ideas? Contact me:

Donna Petersen

University of South Florida

dpeters@health.usf.edu

(813) 974-8577 (phone)