Meet the Author Richard Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD Professor and Founding Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University Jones & Bartlett Learning Series Editor: Essential Public Health Series and Health Navigation Series
Growth of Bachelor’s Degrees – Annually 1995 ~ 1,300 2000 ~ 1,600 2005 ~ 1,800 2010 ~ 4,400 2015 ~ 11,900 2016 ~ 12,900 650 Majors + Minors
How Have Undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree Conferrals Grown?
Where Are Undergraduate Public Health Degrees Being Conferred?
Growth of Undergraduate Public Health Bachelors degree continue to grow – may soon rival ~16,000 masters degrees per year Over half of bachelor’s degrees are in colleges and universities without graduate public health education Lateral growth including nursing, medicine, pharmacy plus health administration Vertical growth-Community colleges are becoming part of continuum of public health education
What’s New and What’s Coming, in Curriculum Lateral Growth- Public Health becoming part of general education and specialty curriculum, including curriculum for nurses and other health professions Vertical Growth- Community colleges emphasizing public health in general education as well as public health associate degrees and certificates
General and Specialized Education General Education at 2-year and 4-year institutions Health and Wellness: Personal Health with a Population Perspective Public Health and Global Health overview Health Communication
Public Health and Clinical Education Increased interest and integration into nursing education with focus on community health and population health MCATs emphasize basic study design and statistics as well as health behavior providing opportunities to enroll pre-meds
Community Colleges and Public Health ASPPH Framing the Future project and the League for Innovation in the Community College (the League) endorsed public health & health navigation associate degrees and certificate programs in Community Colleges and Public Health Report (CC&PH report) Transfer degrees recommended, including public health generalist, health education, health administration, and environmental health Report and Guide should be available
Expanded ASPPH–League Collaboration- Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health Aims to facilitate articulation between community colleges and bachelor’s degrees Aims to increase diversity of bachelor’s degree programs and eventually public health workforce Report and Guide should be available
New Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health Initiative The League and ASPPH are collaborating in developing the Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health (see www.League.org/ccph) Designed to provide associate degree course work for transfer to bachelor’s degree programs Report and Guide should be available
Guided Learning Pathways (cont) Guided Learning Pathways built on “Health Foundations” course recommended in CC&PH report Health Foundation courses: Personal Health with a Population Perspective Overview of Public Health Health Communication Report and Guide should be available
League & Public Health Education- 2019 2019 Awards for Excellence in Public Health Education for Health Foundation courses consistent with the Community Colleges and Public Health report 2019 Public Health Week community college student events “What is Public Health and How to be part of it?” In collaboration with ASPPH and SOPHE
League’s Innovations National meetings 2018 & 2019 Innovations meeting March 18, 2018 in Washington DC area includes Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health Workshop including ASPPH and SOPHE Workshop being planned for 2019 – February 24 Innovation meeting in NYC
Opportunities to Connect ASPPH www.aspph.org Undergraduate Summit: First day of ASPPH annual March meeting Undergraduate Public Health and Global Health Network and Newsletter (over 250 programs) AAC&U list serve http://list.aacu.org/mailman/listinfo/ecph League for Innovation in the Community College www.league.org/ccph
ASPPH new Writing in Public Health Program Broad goals to improve educational, research, professional writing as well as writing for the public. Focus on students at the undergraduate and graduate level Needs assessment survey confirmed need for program Agenda to be developed this spring Website -range of resources will be available on ASPPH website – target launch summer 2018- Toolkit being planned
Writing in Public Health & Public Health Reports Public Health Reports is expected to create a new “Department” called On Writing in Public Health as part of Writing in Public Health effort First articles and commentary submitted, additional submissions encouraged
CEPH New Expectations New Requirement for bachelor’s degree programs in Schools and Programs to have publically available policies and procedures for evaluating community college courses for transfer Cross-cutting concepts and experiences
JB Learning Continues to Address these Issues CEPH Cross-cutting Concepts and Experiences New editions / Essential Public Health Health Foundation texts Primers – new approach
Cross Cutting Concepts and Experiences Cultural contexts in which public health professionals work – Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity Ethical decision making as related to self and society – Essentials of Public Health Ethics Research methods – Epidemiology 101 Systems thinking – Public Health 101 Leadership, professionalism, networking, and teamwork – Essentials of Leadership in Public Health
New for 2018 Public Health 101: Improving Community Health, Third Edition – Riegelman and Kirkwood Essentials of Public Health Biology, Second Edition – Dipietro et. al. Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Management, Second Edition – Katz and Banaski Essentials of Environmental Health, Third Edition – Friis Essentials of Health Behavior, Third Edition - Edberg
New for 2018 Completes the Health Foundations offerings Personal Health: A Population Perspective – Kiely et. al.- Fall 2018 Health Communication: Strategies and Skills for a New Era – Parvanta and Bass-Fall 2018
Primers Available in 2018 Short texts designed to be bundled with any other Jones & Bartlett Learning text at little or no additional cost Short texts designed to be bundled with JB Learning texts at little or no additional cost Primers available in 2018: • One Health: From AIDS to Zika – Riegelman and Kirkwood • Health Reform Update – Teitelbaum & Wilensky • Essentials of Health Justice – Tobin-Tyler and Teitelbaum
Population Health Primers – 2019 Population Health: A Primer for the Health Professions – Riegelman Opioids and Heroin Crisis: A Population Health Approach – Haley and Wisdom Climate Change and Population Health – Sarfaty
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Thank you for participating! Sophie Teague steague@jblearning.com Richard K. Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD rriegelman@gmail.com Recorded webinar will be posted on the LinkedIn Public Health Faculty Lounge: http://go.jblearning.com/PHLinkedIn