Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Capacity Through Academic Health Department Partnerships 

This session, presented at the Public Health Learning Forum: Workforce Development in Action, was held on October 18, 2024 from 1-2:30pm ET.
Interested in strengthening your organization's capacity to attract well-trained public health students, engage in practice-oriented research, and strengthen community partnerships? This session explored more about academic health department (AHD) partnerships - formal partnerships between health departments and academic institutions - and included success stories of partnerships in action from the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department (OH) and Massachusetts Department of Public Health. It also explored the many benefits these collaborations offer and practical resources and tools to help you build and expand your own partnerships.
Speakers included:
Christine Beluk, MPA, Academic Health Department Manager, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Sarah Worthington, MPH, Academic Public Health Manager, Toledo-Lucas County Health Department (OH)
Mayela Arana, MPH, Senior Program Manager, Workforce Development, Public Health Foundation