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Practice-Based Education and Training
Connecticut Partnership for Public Health Workforce Development
The Connecticut Partnership for Public Health Workforce Development promotes and facilitates collaborative education and training programs among academic institutions, state and local public health agencies and organizations to enhance the quality of public health services, especially for underserved areas and populations in the region.
YSPH formed the Connecticut Partnership in 2000 and expanded to cover the State of Rhode Island in 2006. The Partnership is a member of the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development, one of 14 regional public health training centers across the country funded by the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration. The regional training centers work to improve the Nation’s public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial and leadership skills and abilities of the current and future public health workforce.
For additional information please click here or contact Linda Degutis.
Information Outreach for Connecticut Public
Health
The EPH Library and the medical school library have received a grant from
the New England Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for
a project to promote the use of the Internet in obtaining current biomedical
information relevant to the practice of public health by professional staff
in health departments and districts in Connecticut. Library staff provides
training in the use of computers to access the biomedical and public health
literature and important sites on the world wide web relevant to public health
practice. Access to the library collections and document delivery is also
supported.
For additional information, contact Matthew Wilcox at (203) 785-5680, matthew.wilcox@yale.edu.
Joint Preventive Medicine Residency Program
EPH and Griffin
Hospital, a non-profit hospital serving the Lower Naugatuck Valley, share
responsibilities for running a preventive medicine residency. Griffin
Hospital is the accredited site, while the academic year, leading to the M.P.H.
degree, is completed at EPH. This community-based partnership uses a community
setting for training in applied public health and an academic setting for
teaching academic research and the basic core public health areas to clinicians.
For additional information, visit the Program’s
web site, or contact Dr. Haq Nawaz at (203) 732-1268.
New England Public Health Training Center
EPH is a partner with the schools of public health at Harvard, Boston University,
Tufts, and the University of Massachusetts in a HRSA-funded training
center which focuses on public health workforce development in the New England
region. The goals of the New England Public Health Training Center are to
provide a vehicle for collaborative continuing education and professional
development programs and activities and to promote distance education.
For
additional information, contact Linda Degutis, Yale representative,
at (203) 785-3917, linda.degutis@yale.edu.
New Haven Health Database on the World Wide Web
The
EPH library is in the process of updating and expanding a web site which will
serve as a guide for locating information regarding the public health of greater
New Haven, Connecticut. It provides data, documents, photographs, and information
about community organizations to researchers, students, health officials,
administrators, and community members interested in public health.
For additional information, contact Matthew Wilcox at (203) 785-5680, matthew.wilcox@yale.edu.
YSPH Public Health Practice Requirement Guidelines
All M.P.H. candidates must complete a public health practicum to integrate classroom learning with real-life experience. The following guidelines apply to domestic and/or global experiential learning placements that qualify as meeting the M.P.H. practicum requirement including the summer internship and other community agency assignments that are part of approved practice courses.
- Practicum may occur in a wide variety of settings at the local, regional, national or international level but must be outwardly focused on a public health problem or issue. Acceptable venues would include governmental entities, nongovernmental, and private sector organizations with a public health component such as pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, managed care/health maintenance organizations, and consulting firms.
- Practicum affords opportunity to participate in the full spectrum of defining, analyzing and addressing a “real life” public health problem or issue, either directly or through observation, consultation with others working on problem, participation in relevant meetings or activities, and pertinent reading.
- Practicum entails one or more of the following roles*:
- Assessment, monitoring, and/or surveillance of population health indicators, social determinants of health, inequities associated with race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, environmental/occupational hazards and exposures, and other public health issues;
- Participating in the development and/or execution of applied public health research in the biological, environmental and social/behavioral realms, that has an immediate impact on public health, including translational, evaluation and epidemiological research efforts that contribute to the evidence-base and efficacy of public health practice;
- Planning, designing, implementing and evaluating public health interventions;
- Developing disease prevention and health promotion, media advocacy or risk communication materials;
- Developing, implementing and evaluating public health laws, regulations and policy;
- Participating in administrative/management activities of governmental and non-governmental public health agencies and/or health service delivery systems such as hospitals or community health centers. Activities could include organizational analysis and restructuring processes, strategic and business planning, organizational policy and protocol, financial management, budgeting and reimbursement processes, preparation of internal or external reports, human resources management, workforce development and credentialing, and addressing regulatory compliance issues such as audits and accreditation processes;
- Supporting the development and goals of public health coalitions through community organizing and advocacy efforts, needs assessments, strategic and participatory community planning, leadership development, and assisting with the development and implementation of community health improvement plans that respond to local needs and priorities.
- Practicum integrates public health theory, knowledge, and skills, and applies and reinforces the learning objectives in M.P.H. course work.
- Practicum aligns with the student’s area of specialization.
- The practicum project and student role are appropriate for the M.P.H. level.
- The practicum agency and preceptor have requisite population health orientation, public health expertise, and infrastructure to support M.P.H. level student learning experience.
- The practicum has deliverables of tangible value to the mission of the placement agency/site.
*Item #3 was adapted from the “MPH Guidelines and Procedures” Manual of SUNY, Albany.
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