With support of the CDC Cooperative Agreement, APTR convened representatives from law, economics, environmental engineering, informatics, social work, and undergraduate liberal arts and humanities to make recommendations for integrating population health content into their curricula.

Summary

In order to broaden the reach of population health education into other disciplines and professions that impact the determinants of health, APTR convened a Health in All Education Invitational Meeting at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, GA in June 2018. The purpose of the meeting was to demonstrate the importance of integrating population health principles into higher education interdisciplinary education practices, to discuss examples of CDC collaboration with non-traditional disciplines, and to explore opportunities to promote interdisciplinary learning to prepare for collaborative, interprofessional practice. The meeting examined the relationships between higher education and public health as well as the range of current and recent partnerships between CDC and the academic disciplines of law, economics, social work, environmental engineering, informatics, and undergraduate liberal arts and humanities. A meeting report summarized the group’s preliminary recommendations for integrating population health principles into higher education practices. 

• HIAE 2018 Meeting Report »

In 2021-2022, APTR convened the HIAE Advisory Group to make recommendations for population health integration into courses of these non-traditional disciplines. A peer-reviewed manuscript was produced and published in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) that explores recommendations for population health integration into courses or curricula of six non-traditional disciplines, with a special emphasis on pandemic preparedness and response.

• AJPM manuscript (in press): Health in All Education: A Transdisciplinary Learning Outcomes Framework »

Participating Organizations:

Each organization representing a non-traditional discipline designated a faculty or organizational leader to represent them on the Advisory Group.

• American Association of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME)
• American Economic Association (AEA) – Committee on Economic Education
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
• Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
• Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP)
• Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
• Convener: Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR)
  

This project was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD), Population Health Workforce Branch, Academic Partnerships to Improve Health Program through a cooperative agreement with APTR (# 5 NU36OE000008).