AHD Webinar Series: Innovating a Teaching Health Department (Archived Webinar)
October 22, 2019
Academic health department (AHD) partnerships – formal partnerships between health departments and academic institutions – have the potential to enhance the capacity of the organizations involved and offer a variety of benefits. Nationwide, health departments are experiencing reductions in funding,...
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Developing a Population Health Driver Diagram Using The Community Guide
September 27, 2019
A population health driver diagram captures a proposed health change for a community in a single visual graphic diagram that shows a potential path of change. It depicts a detailed theory of potential change about how to improve a community health priority by showing a potential improvement path. It can...
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AHD Webinar Series: Utilizing Academic Partnerships to Enhance Capacity in Small Health Departments (Archived Webinar)
March 6, 2019
This archived webinar explores utilizing academic health department (AHD) partnerships – formal partnerships between health departments and academic institutions – to enhance capacity in small health departments. During this webinar, AHD Learning Community member Michael Anguilano III, Accreditation...
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Taking Action on Community Health Improvement Priorities (Archived Webinar)
June 18, 2018
Featuring two communities participating in the Using The Community Guide for Community Health Improvement pilot initiative, this archived webinar offers an overview of this pilot initiative and highlights the stories of action being taken in Portsmouth, VA and Baton Rouge, LA. Through this initiative, Bon Sec...
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AHD Webinar Series: Building Academic Health Department Partnerships in Rural Areas (Archived Webinar)
June 18, 2018
This archived webinar explores building academic health department (AHD) partnerships – formal partnerships between health departments and academic institutions – in rural areas. During this webinar, Lisa Macon Harrison, MPH, Health Director for Granville Vance Public Health in North Carolina, shared...
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Innovation and Quality in Public Health (Archived Webinar)
March 5, 2018
This archived webinar explores how one local health department, the Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OCCHD), is moving its community forward to improved population health. Grounded in a culture of continuous quality improvement, OCCHD has embraced the community chief health strategist concept,...
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AHD Webinar Series: How Academic Health Department Partnerships Can Support PHAB and CEPH Accreditation (Archived Webinar)
March 5, 2018
This archived webinar explores how academic health department (AHD) partnerships – formal partnerships between health departments and academic institutions – can support achieving and maintaining accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) for health departments and Council on...
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The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice’s Academic Health Department Research Agenda: Comparison with WPHRN Priority Research Questions
February 7, 2018
This paper developed by the Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN), a public health practice-based research network (PH-PBRN), suggests areas for potential collaboration on public health research. The paper compares potential research questions focused on the AHD model from the Council on...
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Collaborating with Stakeholders to Combat the Opioid Crisis
December 15, 2017
As the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50 and with 64,000 overdose deaths in the United States in 2016 alone, the opioid epidemic is a top priority for many communities.
During the December 2017 Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Winter Leadership Summit, the...
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Academic Health Department Partnerships of East Tennessee State University (AHD Learning Community Meeting Presentation)
July 27, 2017
This archived webinar focuses on the academic health department (AHD) partnerships in which East Tennessee State University's College of Public Health is engaged, including partnerships with Sullivan County Regional Health Department and the Northeast Tennessee Regional Health Office. During this webinar,...
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