Associate Professor
Eastern Washington University
Spokane, WA
Background Information
- Engaged in AHD-type activities for 15 years
- Unsure if organization participates in AHD partnerships
Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise
Getting Started with AHD Partnerships
- Developing written partnership agreements
- Setting parameters for partnerships
- Overcoming barriers to the development of an AHD
- Exploring how an AHD can contribute to meeting health department accreditation standards
- Exploring how an AHD can contribute to meeting academic institution accreditation standards
- Transforming informal relationships into formal partnerships
- Building relationships between practice and academia
- Identifying potential partners
Components of AHD Partnerships
- Developing, expanding, and sustaining classroom teaching
- Developing, expanding, and sustaining continuing education
- Developing, expanding, and sustaining practicum sites
- Developing, expanding, and sustaining research
- Developing, expanding, and sustaining service delivery
Operationalizing AHD Partnerships
- 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 resources across organizations involved in an AHD
- Purchasing of services from organizations involved in 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
- Determining an AHD partnership's contributions to health reform