Developing a new graduate curriculum in Population Health

Monday, March 23, 2015
Regency Foyer (Hyatt Regency Crystal City)
Katherine Puskarz, MPH , Department of Family & Community Medicine, Jefferson University School of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA
Drew A. Harris, DPM, MPH , Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA
Caroline Golab, PhD , School of Population Health, Jefferson University School of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA
Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health (JSPH) developed a graduate-level curriculum for practitioners in this emerging discipline. This workshop will introduce our unique curriculum development project. Few schools have Population Health programs and to our knowledge, none have undergone such a comprehensive study of curriculum topics. Utilizing the modified Delphi method, JSPH electronically surveyed over 700 global participants from variety of health-related settings on a list of 117 topics organized into six domains – Interpersonal, Health Systems, Analytics, Process and Design, Environmental/Behavioral/Social, and Legal, Regulatory and Administrative Frameworks.