American Public Health Association Annual Meeting

Session 4151.0 Practice-based Public Health Education

Session Start Time: 12:30 pm

Session Objectives: Assess the efficacy and impact of efforts to expose students to public health practice. Identify efforts to improve public health workforce. Describe activities of the Pacific Public Health Training Center.

• Academic/community partnerships in practice-based research: Cervical cancer prevention the the South Philadelphia Mexican community
• A Two-Year Evaluation of Community-Based Learning (CBL) Among 2008 Drexel University MPH Graduates
• Increasing graduate public health education by underrepresented groups: Evidence from California
• Enhancing Public Health Nursing Practice : A Collaboration in Utah
• Improving the public health workforce in California, Hawaii, Utah, and Nevada: Training initiatives of the Pacific Public Health Training Center (PPHTC)

For more information Email Rachel Flores at rcflores@pphtc.org.