Lecturer of Public Health
Peruvian American Medical Society
Miami, FL
Background Information - Engaged in AHD-type activities for 6 years
- Organization participates in AHD partnerships
Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise
Getting Started with AHD Partnerships
- Overcoming barriers to the development of an AHD
- Identifying factors that support or inhibit AHD development
- Building relationships between practice and academia
- Identifying AHD champions
- Identifying potential partners
- Developing an AHD partnership
- Developing written partnership agreements
- Setting parameters for partnerships
- Transforming informal relationships into formal partnerships
- 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
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
- Ensuring continued AHD operations
- Funding an AHD
- Institutionalizing 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 health department accreditation
- Determining the role of an AHD partnership in gaining and maintaining academic institution accreditation
- Determining an AHD partnership's role in health reform
Understanding Impact/Evaluating AHD Partnerships
- Determining the value of AHD partnerships
- Determining the impact of an AHD partnership on health department accreditation
- Determining the impact of an AHD partnership on academic institution accreditation
- Determining an AHD partnership's contributions to health reform
- Improving AHD outcomes
- Measuring AHD outcomes