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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
4239.1: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| The 21st century presents both opportunities and challenges for public health. Globalization, and scientific and technological advances have and will continue to provide increased opportunities to improve the health of populations around the world but these positive effects are accompanied by many challenges, for example environmental degradation, increasing economic and health inequalities, and emergence of antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases. One of our most pressing tasks is to prepare public health professionals to meet the challenges facing us. Public health has the potential to make major contributions to improving health in the coming century, however, the extent to which we are successful depends in large part upon the quality and preparedness of our workforce. To better understand what is needed for education of public health professionals in the 21st Century, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to assess the past and current state of education and training for public health professionals and contrast it to future practice needs. The committee’s findings were used to develop a framework for how, over the next five to ten years, education, training, and research can be strengthened to meet the needs of future public health professionals to improve population-level health. The panel will discuss the committee’s findings and recommendations which focus on schools of public health but also address the role of public health programs, other professional schools (e.g., medicine, nursing, and law), and public health agencies in preparing well-educated public health professionals. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to: · summarize how public health education has evolved over the past 100 years; · identify major challenges facing public health in the 21st century; · describe the current and future contributions of schools of public health to educating public health professionals · relate ways in which programs, schools, and other agencies educate public health professionals. | |||
| Kristine Gebbie, DrPH, RN Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH Susan Allan, MD, JD, MPH Dan G Blazer, MD, PhD, MPH Patricia Wahl, PhD | |||
| Organized by: | APHA | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||