The Healthy People Curriculum Task Force (Task Force), established in 2002 by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) convened a quarterly meeting on March 21, 2024 to discuss progress on converting Healthy People educational objectives from developmental status to core, and to analyze the first round of proposed edits for the upcoming 5^th revision of their curriculum framework.  The Task Force works to encourage the implementation of Healthy People educational objectives that seek to increase the inclusion of core clinical prevention and population health content in health professions education.

To guide this work, the Task Force publishes and regularly updates the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework, which provides a common core of knowledge for clinical health professions about individual and population‐oriented prevention and health promotion efforts.

Seven Task Force member national health professions education associations have collected information from their member institutions for two decades to track progress in curricular integration. The data reveal trends toward the universal inclusion of some topic areas in clinical prevention and population health, such as counseling for behavior change and evaluation of health sciences literature. However, there is a continuing need to facilitate the inclusion of other topic areas including environmental health, global health, and public health systems.

The 2020 Framework revision (current version) featured a greater emphasis on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and health equity; a new domain addressing mental and behavioral health; and 14 new or revised topic areas.  The 2025 revision, following a global pandemic, is expected to delve into multiple new areas of focus.  That’s why the Task Force decided to assemble four faculty expert workgroups, with representation from each clinical health profession, to tackle the revisions for each of the four Framework Components.  Workgroups are comprised of 47 faculty across the health professions selected by their national associations. They first convened in November 2023 and meet independently to propose revisions over 3 quarterly cycles, with a final draft expected in Fall 2024. A Public Comment period will invite additional input in winter 2024.