APTR is pleased to announce an extended deadline for the Acceleration of Prevention and Population Health Education Grant Program Funding Opportunity Announcement. The Acceleration Grant Program is intended to expand and improve public health and health professions education by disseminating effective methods of integrating complex topics into existing courses and curricula. This is the second round of funding.  Round II funding recognizes the challenges that faculty face in tackling misinformation when teaching about climate change, racism, migrant health, and firearm violence, and the need to develop student competency in these areas.  

The national response to the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the importance of addressing these topics. Health professions educators are uniquely situated to bring clarity to research agendas, teaching curricula, and evaluation of policy and program outcomes necessary to create meaningful change around complex issues that impact health. 

APTR has developed calls to action and curated evidence-based materials that faculty can use when addressing complex issues with students [www.aptrweb.org/policy]:

• Role of Academia in Combatting Structural Racism in the United States
• Role of the Academic Community in Reducing Firearm Violence
• Role of Academia in Combatting the Impact of Climate Change on Health

• Role of Academia in Addressing the Health Needs of Migrant Populations

Learn More »

Case studies, simulation scenarios, and PowerPoint slides were developed by the Immunization Resources for Undergraduate Nursing (IRUN) project through a
cooperative agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). The teaching resources support the learning objectives in the Immunization Resources for
Undergraduate Nursing (IRUN) Curriculum Framework: A Guide to Integrating Content in Prelicensure Nursing Practice (IRUN Framework).

Case studies

• 21 case studies cover fundamental immunization content across the life span.
• Students can use clinical judgment and reasoning as they work through case studies and corresponding activities.
• Comprehensive teaching tools with immunization topic overviews, case objectives, a glossary, and reference materials.
• Adaptable case studies can be incorporated into in-person or virtual learning course curricula as either individual or group learning activities.

Simulation scenarios

• Infant, adolescent, and adult vaccination scenarios are available.
• Students can practice clinical decision-making and communication skills.
• Adaptable scenarios can be used in a classroom role-play, as a stand-alone lab simulation, or incorporate them into existing simulations and/or course content.

Slide Sets

• Presentations on vaccine-preventable diseases
• Speaker’s notes, glossary, and learning resources included.
• Insert adaptable slides into an existing presentation, use them to create a new lecture, or provide them directly to students.
• Aligned with the 12 topic areas of the IRUN Framework.

Visit IRUNursing.org to download available teaching resources.

The APTR Healthy People Curriculum Task Force met on June 2, 2021 to continue planning its data collection efforts for Healthy People 2030. The Task Force has two developmental objectives this decade which are replacing numerous objectives from prior decades that seek to increase clinical prevention and population health content and interprofessional learning experiences for students in health professions education programs. Health professions schools represented by 8 associations will be surveyed by spring 2022 to produce baseline data and covert the proposed objectives to core objectives.

Learn more at: https://www.teachpopulationhealth.org/