What we bring to the table when we talk about the health care enterprise at large is a few things… One is multi-disiplinarity, right, we have all these incredibly important aspects of our health care system. If you look across health policy, biostatistics, behavior and so on… And so all of these different disciplines really help drive an understanding of how to improve the health and well-being of the population. If you look at behavioral science, behavioral medicine and health and it’s really important for us to be able to bring our principles for use-inspired research. Those types of approaches to driving research that’s use-inspired that’s very translationally focused implementation science… public health has so much to offer and we really are looking at this convergence when we look at disciplines of health care with technology, with engineering, with user center design… and that’s where I think we really need to be sure that our students our next generation of learners are able to appreciate both their expertise within the Pantheon of Public Health but also how they’re engaging in integrating learnings and advances from these other adjacent fields.
