This meeting will bring together leaders to address the status

of prevention in the healthcare debate and showcase and discuss improved methods of teaching and promoting prevention.

 

Healthcare is among the hottest topics at the local, state, and national level, propelled by the increasing inefficiencies of the healthcare system in the context of a challenging economic environment. Despite the emphasis on access to care, the major source of health improvements—and potential cost savings—for the population will come from prevention rather than the treatment of illness.

 

Plenary, concurrent and breakout sessions will include ways to employ government paradigm shifts into improvements in prevention education and such topics as interprofessional/interdisciplinary education and practice, issues in graduate public health education, undergraduate public health education, and community based participatory research.

 

Conference Objectives:

1. Improve prevention and public health education.
2. Provide an interactive forum for representatives from different disciplines to advance communication, collaboration, and partnership.
3. Identify key features of the political and policy landscape in health and health care that impact prevention education and research.
4. Explore innovative approaches to education and research programs.

Concurrent Sessions will be around the following tracks:

1. Policy and Practice
2. Teaching
3. Research
   

Plenary speakers for the conference include:

	Howard Koh, MD, MPH Assistant Secretary for Health Department of Health and Human Services
	Carolyn Clancy, MD Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
	Mary Woolley President, Research!America
	Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH Vice‐Chair, Secretary's Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020

 

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