2. Meet the Author Richard Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor and Founding Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
Jones & Bartlett Learning Series Editor: Essential Public Health Series and Health Navigation Series

3. Growth of Bachelor’s Degrees – Annually
~ 1,300
~ 1,600
~ 1,800
~ 4,400
2015 ~ 11,900
2016 ~ 12,900
650 Majors + Minors

4. How Have Undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree Conferrals Grown?

5. Where Are Undergraduate Public Health Degrees Being Conferred?

6. Growth of Undergraduate Public Health
Bachelors degree continue to grow – may soon rival ~16,000 masters degrees per year
Over half of bachelor’s degrees are in colleges and universities without graduate public health education
Lateral growth including nursing, medicine, pharmacy plus health administration
Vertical growth-Community colleges are becoming part of continuum of public health education

7. What’s New and What’s Coming, in Curriculum
Lateral Growth- Public Health becoming part of general education and specialty curriculum, including curriculum for nurses and other health professions
Vertical Growth- Community colleges emphasizing public health in general education as well as public health associate degrees and certificates

8. General and Specialized Education
General Education at 2-year and 4-year institutions
Health and Wellness: Personal Health with a Population Perspective
Public Health and Global Health overview
Health Communication

9. Public Health and Clinical Education
Increased interest and integration into nursing education with focus on community health and population health
MCATs emphasize basic study design and statistics as well as health behavior providing opportunities to enroll pre-meds

10. Community Colleges and Public Health
ASPPH Framing the Future project and the League for Innovation in the Community College (the League) endorsed public health & health navigation associate degrees and certificate programs in Community Colleges and Public Health Report (CC&PH report)
Transfer degrees recommended, including public health generalist, health education, health administration, and environmental health
Report and Guide should be available

11. Expanded ASPPH–League Collaboration- Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health
Aims to facilitate articulation between community colleges and bachelor’s degrees
Aims to increase diversity of bachelor’s degree programs and eventually public health workforce
Report and Guide should be available

12. New Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health Initiative
The League and ASPPH are collaborating in developing the Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health (see
Designed to provide associate degree course work for transfer to bachelor’s degree programs
Report and Guide should be available

13. Guided Learning Pathways (cont)
Guided Learning Pathways built on “Health Foundations” course recommended in CC&PH report
Health Foundation courses:
Personal Health with a Population Perspective
Overview of Public Health
Health Communication
Report and Guide should be available

14. League & Public Health Education- 2019
2019 Awards for Excellence in Public Health Education for Health Foundation courses consistent with the Community Colleges and Public Health report
2019 Public Health Week community college student events “What is Public Health and How to be part of it?” In collaboration with ASPPH and SOPHE

15. League’s Innovations National meetings 2018 & 2019
Innovations meeting March 18, 2018 in Washington DC area includes Guided Learning Pathways to Public Health Workshop including ASPPH and SOPHE
Workshop being planned for 2019 – February 24 Innovation meeting in NYC

16. Opportunities to Connect
ASPPH
Undergraduate Summit: First day of ASPPH annual March meeting
Undergraduate Public Health and Global Health Network and Newsletter (over 250 programs)
AAC&U list serve
League for Innovation in the Community College

17. ASPPH new Writing in Public Health Program
Broad goals to improve educational, research, professional writing as well as writing for the public. Focus on students at the undergraduate and graduate level
Needs assessment survey confirmed need for program Agenda to be developed this spring
Website -range of resources will be available on ASPPH website – target launch summer Toolkit being planned

18. Writing in Public Health & Public Health Reports
Public Health Reports is expected to create a new “Department” called On Writing in Public Health as part of Writing in Public Health effort
First articles and commentary submitted, additional submissions encouraged

19. CEPH New Expectations
New Requirement for bachelor’s degree programs in Schools and Programs to have publically available policies and procedures for evaluating community college courses for transfer
Cross-cutting concepts and experiences

20. JB Learning Continues to Address these Issues
CEPH Cross-cutting Concepts and Experiences
New editions / Essential Public Health
Health Foundation texts
Primers – new approach

22. Cross Cutting Concepts and Experiences
Cultural contexts in which public health professionals work – Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity
Ethical decision making as related to self and society – Essentials of Public Health Ethics
Research methods – Epidemiology 101
Systems thinking – Public Health 101
Leadership, professionalism, networking, and teamwork – Essentials of Leadership in Public Health

23. New for 2018
Public Health 101: Improving Community Health, Third Edition – Riegelman and Kirkwood
Essentials of Public Health Biology, Second Edition – Dipietro et. al.
Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Management, Second Edition – Katz and Banaski
Essentials of Environmental Health, Third Edition – Friis
Essentials of Health Behavior, Third Edition - Edberg

24. New for 2018 Completes the Health Foundations offerings
Personal Health: A Population Perspective – Kiely et. al.- Fall 2018
Health Communication: Strategies and Skills for a New Era – Parvanta and Bass-Fall 2018

25. Primers Available in Short texts designed to be bundled with any other Jones & Bartlett Learning text at little or no additional cost
Short texts designed to be bundled with JB Learning texts at little or no additional cost
Primers available in 2018:
• One Health: From AIDS to Zika – Riegelman and Kirkwood
• Health Reform Update – Teitelbaum & Wilensky
• Essentials of Health Justice – Tobin-Tyler and Teitelbaum

26. Population Health Primers – 2019
Population Health: A Primer for the Health Professions – Riegelman
Opioids and Heroin Crisis: A Population Health Approach – Haley and Wisdom
Climate Change and Population Health – Sarfaty

27. Questions/Comments?

28. Thank you for participating!
Sophie Teague
Richard K. Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD
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