Overarching goal: “Shine a light” on the real public health work that is getting done through our UTSPH and our community partnerships.

1.      Describe/explore/document the accomplishments of UTHealth School of Public Health practice-related efforts (student practicum, community partnerships, community service, practice-based experience) in partnership with our Texas community and beyond.

 

2.      Identify our lessons learned and opportunities for enhancement of our practice-based efforts with the aim of ongoing quality improvement.

 

3.      Identify both best practices of our current UTSPH practice-related efforts that can serve as a model to other Schools of Public Health as well as recommended actions for continual learning and enhancement of our practice-based efforts.

 

·         Texas community and other external stakeholders (who are these? List out?)

·         Our internal UTSPH community as relates to our highlights, lessons learned and recommendations- which can also show transparency with our efforts and provide further direction for other external stakeholders.

Topics/Sections (initial brainstorm!)

I.       UTSPH Student Practicum

a.      Subtopics?

b.      Data sources?

 

II.    UTSPH/faculty community partnerships, community events, and community service (direct community service and research-related??) 

 

III.    Other community service: (student, staff and faculty service on nonprofit boards, grant review committees, etc.)

 

IV.    UTSPH ‘practice-based teaching and learning’ activities: In-class practice-related efforts; community training efforts.

a.      Melissa Valerio Community Needs Assessment class

 

V.     Highlighting of Key Skills that Students are learning- and how they contributed to our community (e.g., Leigh Ann Ganzar: ArcGIS and community health planning; 

·         The 10 Essential Public Health Services

·         Social/Racial Equity frame/Social Determinants Model

·         Campus-Community Partnerships for Health: Promoting Health Equity and Social Justice https://www.ccphealth.org/ 

Other University Models we should explore for our practice-related work/report

·         Michigan model (?)

·         UNC

·         Drexel