APPLIED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

PUBLHLTH 781

Exploration of current public health issues, interprofessional approaches and modes of communication within the MPH Program and the public health practice community. Content will advance students' analytic assessment, communication, and systems-thinking skills.

NURSING 847

Provides a policy field experience that corresponds to a targeted focus area, phenomenon, or population of interest. Negotiate a policy experience with a selected agency or institution. Analyze relevant policies to your population of interest and actively influence the design, development, and implementation of a policy. Examine strategies to accelerate policy adoption and implementation.

NURSING 720

Experiential learning focused on the application of foundational skills and perspectives of advanced population health nursing practice. Provides an opportunity to synthesize, integrate, and apply new knowledge and skills and gain professional experience in population health. Emphasis is on aggregate assessment and evidence-based planning, including critical appraisal of existent data, generation of primary data, community engagement, participatory solution-finding, and the identification of evidence-based strategies to promote and protect health and well-being.

PUBLHLTH 777

Addresses the interface between the practice of clinical medicine and evidence-based approaches to public health needs and issues and community health improvement. A focus on emerging issues and opportunities to work with community-based public health practitioners while exploring career goals and the intersection between clinical medicine and public health.

PUBLHLTH 787

Prepares Master of Public Health students for applied practice experience in a community setting.