National workshop on service-learning in public health education

*please circulate to your faculty and community partners in health-related
fields

Dear SL Colleagues,

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, the Association of Schools of
Public Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the
Corporation for National Service collaborated to conduct a
retreat/workshop on April 18 - 20, 2001 in San Diego, CA entitled,
"Creating Sustainable Environments for Public Health Practice."
Participants in this event gathered to advance approaches to
promote and sustain academic public health practice in schools of public
health. The retreat served three audiences: ASPH practice coordinators;
ASPH public health faculty; and the community/agency partners
of schools of public health.

The meeting addressed the following topics: current and best public health
practices in schools of public health; public health practice research;
support for practice through the institutionalization of funding mechanisms
and promotion of favorable faculty reward systems; and, faculty and
community/agency partnerships for effective service-learning.

A number of CCPH members were featured as presenters on service-learning:
Toti Villanueva and Linda Lloyd, both of MCP Hahnemann School of Public
Health in Philadelphia; Lorraine Matthews, Philadelphia Department of
Public Health; Mike Prelip, UCLA School of Public Health; and
Maggie Potter, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health.

If you are from a school of public health, an undergraduate public health
program or a master's in public health program, and are interested or
involved in service-learning, please send your name and contact
information to Rose Coroneos, CCPH executive assistant, at
rosecor@u.washington.edu.  In addition to adding you to our mailing list
for  future announcements on service-learning in public health education,
a number of resource materials were created for the meeting that we would
be happy to share with you.

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization that
fosters partnerships between communities and educational institutions that
improve health professions education, civic responsibility and the overall
health of communities.  In just five years, we have grown to a network of
over 1000 communities, health professional schools, colleges and
universities that are collaborating to improve health.  To learn more
about CCPH, visit our website at http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html
or call 415-476-7081.
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