Periodically, the APTR leadership examines its role in crucial areas of importance to the field of preventive medicine and public health education, research, and training.  In 2005, APTR established the following priority areas for the organization to provide focus for the use of APTR resources.

 

Clinical Prevention and Population Health

APTR will establish a more prominent advocacy role to obtain support for research, education and improved practice in the areas of clinical prevention and population health for individuals, families and communities. APTR initiatives in Clinical Prevention and Population Health include:

 

• Community-Engagement Research Workshops
• APTR-CDC Research Funding Opportunities
• Emergency Preparedness Workshops

Graduate Education in Public Health

APTR will increase its activities in order to advance graduate public health education including representing and supporting the U.S. Graduate Programs in Public Health. Graduate public health education is necessary to strengthen the public health workforce.  Improving skills and competencies among a range of public health professionals as well as members of other disciplines where clinical prevention and population health is of growing importance. APTR initiatives in Graduate Public Health Education include:

 

• Council of Graduate Programs in Public Health
• Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC)

Interprofessional Education

APTR provides resources for, and collaborates with, multiple health professions disciplines to advance the knowledge and skills of professionals and students in the areas of clinical prevention and population health. APTR initiatives in Interprofessional Health Professions Education include:

 

• Healthy People Curriculum Task Force

• Curriculum Framework for Teaching Clinical Prevention and Population Health

• Institute for Interprofessional Prevention Education

• Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC)

Undergraduate Education in Public Health

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) will increase its activities in order to expand access for faculty to educational opportunities and resources designed to support integration of public health into the undergraduate curriculum. Undergraduate public health education, as part of general education, serves to develop an educated citizenry to support future prevention and public health efforts.  The Institute of Medicine has recommended that “…all undergraduates have access to education in public health”. APTR initiatives in Undergraduate Public Health Education include:

 

• Consensus Conference
• Innovations in Public Health Education Awards
• Undergraduate Curriculum Guide
• Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC)

 

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