Target Audience: Academic public health administrative leaders (both at the university and public health school/program levels), faculty, staff, students, and partners
On the one-year anniversary of ASPPH’s Framing the Future 2030: Education for Public Health (FTF 2030) initiative, the academic public health community is invited to reflect upon three different-sized units’ response to the FTF 2030 call to action for implementing their own change efforts.
This ASPPH Presents webinar, part of our series, will illuminate how three units – a big, medium, and small school or program of public health – have begun their transformative journey, addressing their unique pain points and executing various methods to convene drivers of change, surface needs and assets, and chart a path forward in advancing each unit’s strategic aims in connection with responding to one or more of the three FTF 2030 reports’ recommendations:
After brief presentations from the three speakers, attendees will interact with the speakers whose experiences speak to your own challenges and opportunities in innovating education at your school or program.
We look forward to your joining in and we are eager to learn from you how you are exploring delivering on the FTF 2030 vision: health equity and well-being for everyone, everywhere through equitable, quality education for public health!
Please also join us in person next month at the 2025 ASPPH Annual Meeting for Academic Public Health, where we will continue our Framing the Future 2030 discussions.
Shan D. Mohammed, MD, MPH, is Clinical Professor and Assistant Dean for Student Belonging, Northeastern University MPH Program; Chair, ASPPH Education Advisory Committee; Steering Committee Member, ASPPH Framing the Future 2030: Education for Public Health; Co-chair, Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning Expert Panel.
Hillary C. M. Nelson, PhD, MPH, is Director, MPH Program, University of Pennsylvania Master of Public Health Program (UPenn). UPenn represents a “small” ASPPH unit with between 6-150 matriculants that only offers the MPH degree. The program is not affiliated with a department but, rather, is affiliated with a Center for Public Health.
Donna Gurule, DrPH, MPH, is Associate Dean, Academic Administration, Loma Linda University School of Public Health (Loma Linda). Loma Linda represents a “medium” ASPPH unit with between 157-659 matriculants and currently has 13 graduate-level degrees including nine online. Loma Linda has been accredited by CEPH since 1967 and is celebrating their 60th anniversary this year.
Theodore K. Gideonse, PhD, MFA, is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health (Wen Public Health). Wen Public Health represents a “large” unit with between 678-4,549 matriculants. UC Irvine’s Program in Public Health became the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health in July 2024 and is in the midst of a dramatic expansion in faculty, students, and staff.