The APTR undergraduate public health education initiative aimed to fulfill the National Academies of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation that all undergraduates should have access to education in public health. APTR led the development of the following activities: 

Curriculum Guide to Undergraduate Public Health Education

The curriculum guide is designed to assist faculty who are developing undergraduate courses in public health as well as educational administrators and faculty curriculum committees who are designing undergraduate public health curricula. It assumes that the primary purpose of undergraduate public health is to produce an educated citizen.

Recommendations for Teaching Undergraduate Public Health

Recommended core undergraduate Public Health Curricula for Public Health 101, Epidemiology 101, and Global Health 101. These tools can assist faculty in developing each of the core courses.

Report on Public Health and Undergraduate Education

This report was a result of the 2006 APTR Consensus Conference on Undergraduate Public Health Education, which brought together leaders in public health, arts and sciences, and health professions education to plan how undergraduates can become better informed about public health for the sake of lifelong citizenship.

Collaborative Integration of Public Health Content into Undergraduate Education

APTR provided funding to eight members of the APTR Council of Graduate Programs in Public Health to facilitate increased involvement of graduate level public health programs in the advancement of undergraduate public health curricula. Qualifying Council member programs collaborated with faculty from undergraduate colleges within the same institution or neighboring or regional liberal education institutions to develop, pilot, and evaluate undergraduate public health, global health, and epidemiology courses.