Field Supervisor (Preceptor), Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston
Atlanta, GA
Background Information
- Engaged in AHD-type activities for more than 40 years
- Organization participates in AHD partnerships
Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise
Getting Started with AHD Partnerships
- Developing an AHD partnership
- Identifying potential partners
- Identifying AHD champions
- Selling the AHD concept
- Building leadership support for an AHD partnership
- Building relationships between practice and academia
- Transforming informal relationships into formal partnerships
- Setting parameters for partnerships
- Developing written partnership agreements
- Identifying factors that support or inhibit AHD development
- Overcoming barriers to the development of an AHD
- Exploring how an AHD can contribute to meeting academic institution accreditation standards
Components of AHD Partnerships
- Developing, sustaining, and expanding classroom teaching
- Developing, sustaining, and expanding continuing education
- Developing, sustaining, and expanding practicum sites
- Developing, sustaining, and expanding research
- Developing, sustaining, and expanding service delivery
Operationalizing AHD Partnerships
- Institutionalizing an AHD
- Funding an AHD
- Sharing personnel across organizations involved in an AHD
- Sharing resources across organizations involved in an AHD
- Purchasing of services from organizations involved in an AHD
- Addressing political issues that may impact an AHD's sustainability
- Determining the role of an AHD partnership in gaining and maintaining academic institution accreditation
- Ensuring continued AHD operations
Understanding Impact/Evaluating AHD Partnerships
- Determining the value of AHD partnerships
- Measuring AHD outcomes
- Improving AHD outcomes
- Determining the impact of an AHD partnership on academic institution accreditation