Teamwork to Improve the Public's Health
Through Real-World Practice-Research Linkages

The session is supported by PHPPO/CDC and will focus on research linkages between academia and public health practice.

When:
Thursday, July 20 from 2:15-3:45 p.m. (preliminary-schedule)

Presenters:
Hugh Tilson (moderator)
C. William Keck
Jane Nelson
Louihel Stricof
Goase-Anne McNutt
Bill Myers

Goals and objectives:

1. Understand how public health practice research can benefit the practice of public health and the health of the public;
2. Discuss the teamwork, problems, methods, and benefits (including mutual learning and leveraging of capacity/resources) involved in doing research between academia and practice;
3. Learn how to incorporate community health needs into emerging research agendas; and,
4. Demonstrate the results of research that depends on functional linkages between academia and practice.

Description:

This interactive session will enable audience members and panelists to discuss matters of mutual interest regarding the function and value of academic-practice linkages in public health research to improve the health of the public.   Participants will be invited to pose questions and present "cases" from the start in order to shape a dynamic discussion about partnerships between academic and practice communities that create and support a real-world environment for mutual learning and practice.  Three 2-person teams of leading public health academicians and practitioners from health departments, who have worked together to develop and maintain academic-practice partnerships, will respond to the challenges, achievements, and innovations as related by audience members.  Attention will be paid to advancing academic-practice collaborations, including how to incorporate community assets and needs into emerging research agendas, advance mutual learning, and build capacity/leverage resources.  At the end of this session, participants will not only increase their understanding of how to sustain academic-practice linkages, but also learn of effective incentives and tools for maximizing successful public health and research outcomes.

 

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