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. 2017 Sep;107(9):1369-1375.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303847. Epub 2017 Jul 20.

Development of a Research Agenda Focused on Academic Health Departments

Paul Campbell Erwin  1 , Ross C Brownson  1 , William C Livingood  1 , C William Keck  1 , Kathleen Amos  1
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Development of a Research Agenda Focused on Academic Health Departments

Paul Campbell Erwin et al. Am J Public Health. 2017 Sep.

Abstract

An academic health department (AHD) is a formal partnership between an academic institution and a governmental public health agency. Case studies have described the value of individual AHDs in the areas of student engagement, practice-based research, workforce development, and service. With growing interest in AHDs and the increasing importance of academic-practice linkages in both academic programs' and public health agencies' accreditation processes, articulating a research agenda focused on the AHD model can be useful for stimulating the research and practice fields to further develop the evidence base for AHDs. We provide a research agenda, developed through an iterative process involving academicians, practitioners, and others interested in academic-practice linkages.

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Logic Model for the Academic Health Department Source. Adapted from Erwin et al. Used by permission of Wolters Kluwer Health.
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