Engaging in collaboration: piloting an interprofessional population health course in a school of public health

In 2015 The Gillings School of Global Public Health engaged in an interprofessional collaboration across health affairs schools (medicine, nursing, social work, pharmacy) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop and implement an interprofessional graduate-level course on population health.  This presentation will describe course development and implementation and describe case-based team building opportunities built into the didactic portion of the hybrid online/face-to-face course which was piloted with more than 20 students in the Fall of 2015. The presentation will also describe accompanying project-based activities at community clinical sites where students collaborated with primary care providers in quality improvement activities.  Evaluation data from the pilot course will also be discussed.