Academic Health Department Coordinator
Knox County Health Department and University of Tennessee, Department of Public Health
Knoxville, TN
Background Information
- Engaged in AHD-type activities for 5 years
- Organization participates in AHD partnerships
Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise
Getting Started with AHD Partnerships
- Developing an AHD partnership
- Selling the AHD concept
- Building leadership support for an AHD partnership
- Exploring how an AHD can contribute to meeting health department accreditation standards
- Exploring how an AHD can contribute to meeting academic institution accreditation standards
- Identifying factors that support or inhibit AHD development
- Transforming informal relationships into formal partnerships
- Building relationships between practice and academia
Components of AHD Partnerships
- Expanding classroom teaching
- Expanding continuing education
- Sustaining practicum sites
- Expanding research
Operationalizing AHD Partnerships
- Institutionalizing an AHD
- Ensuring continued AHD operations
- Determining the role of an AHD partnership in gaining and maintaining academic institution accreditation
- Determining the role of an AHD partnership in gaining and maintaining health department accreditation
- Sharing personnel across organizations involved in an AHD
- Sharing resources across organizations involved in an AHD
- Funding an AHD
Understanding Impact/Evaluating AHD Partnerships
- Determining the impact of an AHD partnership on health department accreditation
- Determining the impact of an AHD partnership on academic institution accreditation
- Improving AHD outcomes
- Measuring AHD outcomes
- Determining the value of AHD partnerships
For more information, please visit Ms. Grubaugh's AHD Learning Community profile.