Partnering to Advance Public Health: Making a Difference Through Government, Community, Business, and Academic Vocations

Innovative partnerships to advance public health training in community-based academic residency programs

Collaborative partnerships between community-based academic residency training programs and schools of public health, represent an innovative approach to training future physician leaders in population management and public health. In Kaiser Permanente Northern California, development of residency-Masters in Public Health (MPH) tracks in the Internal Medicine Residency and the Pediatrics Reside...

Community/practice/academic partnerships in public health.

The forging of links between academia and the field of practice is a much-discussed topic. The 1988 Institute of Medicine Report on the Future of Public Health noted that public health academic institutions had become “isolated from the field of public health practice.”1 The Committee opined that neither academia nor practice can work at the desired level of excellence without the perspective a...

The Vessel Sanitation Program: government partnering with the cruise ship industry to improve public health.

Editor’s note: NEHA strives to provide up­ to-date and relevant information on en­ vironmental health and to build partner­ ships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we will feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. EHSB’s objective is to strengthen the role of state, loc...

Building a healthier future: partnering to improve public health.

Collective Impact through Public Health and Academic Partnerships: A Kentucky Public Health Accreditation Readiness Example

In the ever-changing, resource-limited public health environment, the use of partners found in the faculty and students of Colleges of Public Health can provide training, consultation, and technical assistance needed to increase local health department (LHD) workforce capacity to meet new public health demands including national public heath accreditation. This manuscript describes the provisio...