Newly Revised Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals Now Available
Posted in: Council on Linkages, Infrastructure, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
November 17, 2021
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health FoundationAfter engaging in a yearlong review and revision process, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) is pleased to announce the adoption and release of the 2021 Core Competencies...
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AJPH Highlights the Importance of Academic-Practice Partnerships for Impacting Evidence-Based Public Health
Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
April 29, 2019
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
Researchers concluded that “formal academic–practice partnerships can be important means for advancing evidence-based decision-making and for implementing evidence-based programs and policies”1 in a recen...
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Ask the AHD Expert: Increasing Engagement within an AHD Partnership
Posted in: Council on Linkages, Infrastructure, and Workforce Development
February 21, 2019
Bill Keck, MD, MPH, Chair, Academic Health Department Learning Community; Chair, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice; Professor Emeritus, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University
Engagement is key to the success of partnerships, and...
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The Nation's Health Cover Story Features the Benefits of Academic Health Department Partnerships
Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
August 30, 2018
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
Have you seen the cover story in the August issue of The Nation's Health from the American Public Health Association? Academic Health Department Partnerships Boost Training: Joining with Schools Benefits...
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C. William Keck: Academic Health Departments
Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development
December 7, 2010
There is a big distinction between people just working together with their own agenda and working together towards a common purpose…When a community of learners transforms into a learning community, the outcome is far greater than the sum of the individual parts.
Lori Nishiura, “On Learning”
Many...
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