TY - JOUR
T1 - MPH education for the 21st century
T2 - Motivation, rationale, and key principles for the New Columbia public health curriculum
AU - Fried, Linda P.
AU - Begg, Melissa D.
AU - Bayer, Ronald
AU - Galea, Sandro
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Public health is at a watershed moment. The world's health needs are changing, and complex problems require interdisciplinary approaches and systems-based solutions. Our longer lives and changing environments necessitate life-course and structural approaches to prevention. This argues strongly for public health graduate education that adequately prepares trainees to tackle emerging challenges and to lead now and in the future. Nearly a century of scholarship and scientific advances may offer a blueprint for training the next generation of public health leaders. We articulate a case for change; discuss some of the foundational principles that should guide public health education; and discuss what suchachangemightlooklike building on prior scholarship, on the examples set by other disciplines, andonour own experience.
AB - Public health is at a watershed moment. The world's health needs are changing, and complex problems require interdisciplinary approaches and systems-based solutions. Our longer lives and changing environments necessitate life-course and structural approaches to prevention. This argues strongly for public health graduate education that adequately prepares trainees to tackle emerging challenges and to lead now and in the future. Nearly a century of scholarship and scientific advances may offer a blueprint for training the next generation of public health leaders. We articulate a case for change; discuss some of the foundational principles that should guide public health education; and discuss what suchachangemightlooklike building on prior scholarship, on the examples set by other disciplines, andonour own experience.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301399
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301399
M3 - Article
C2 - 24228646
AN - SCOPUS:84891702180
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 104
SP - 23
EP - 30
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 1
ER -