Practice and Partnerships Accomplishments and Progress
Overview
Our practice and partnerships goal: We will build ethical and equitable collaborations with local, regional, and global partners to engage communities and translate our research into mutually beneficial public health practices, policies, and programs.
To achieve our practice and partnerships goal, we set three specific objectives:
- Grow institutional and infrastructure support for applied public health practice.
- Cultivate diverse, equitable, and mutually advantageous partnerships to enhance responsiveness to local, national, and global public health needs.
- Establish a pipeline of initiatives that develop and grow practitioners from both academia and the broader health community.
In the first year, we have achieved great progress in advancing these objectives. Our accomplishments so far underscore our commitment to establishing a strong foundation for applied public health practice. By prioritizing strategic appointments, symposium planning, and partnership cultivation, we are laying the groundwork for sustained collaboration and meaningful impact in addressing public health challenges at local, national, and global levels.
Key Achievements
Grow institutional and infrastructure support for applied public health practice.
- Expanded practice-relevant initiatives of multiple centers across the school engaged in technical assistance, training, and other practice partnerships. These include the Emory Centers for Training and Technical Assistance; the new Emory Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics and Training Hub; Climate and Health Indicator Dashboard for Georgia and the Climate and Health Actionable Research and Translation Center; an Emory and Morehouse Equity-Centered Violence and Injury Prevention Pathway Development Program; and our collaboration with Morehouse School of Medicine, Mercer University, and Research!America to address the maternal health crisis.
- Completed first year of a fully reimagined Woodruff Health Sciences Center Interprofessional Education—Achieving Collaborative Solutions experience.
- Collaborating with Emory Healthcare on multiple initiatives that bring public health expertise and evidence to health care practice.
- Preparing to launch a DrPH program to support and expand the expertise of public health practitioners in the workforce.
Cultivate diverse, equitable, and mutually advantageous partnerships to enhance responsiveness to local, national, and global public health needs.
- Appointed Allison Chamberlain, PhD, as the director of research and practice relations with the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH). Her role is to facilitate research and practice partnerships with the various state and local DPH entities.
- Engaged with government and community-based organizations regarding advocacy for public health, communication and information exchange, and collaborative funding.
