Public Health Practice
The Office of Public Health Practice serves as major interface with the health care community, including the identification, cultivation, and expantion of relationships with health departments, providers, managed care organizations, and community organizations.
Objectives
- Develop meaningful collaborations and partnerships
- To promote health
- Provide opportunities for research
- Provide supervised educational experiences for students
- Facilitate development of the Public Health Observatory
- Present educational programs on public health topics for students and professionals in the community
- Support development of relationships with other schools at UB and in the community
- Provide career counseling and guidance for public health students
Ongoing Programs
- MMWR Club
- Informal learning opportunity
- Funding from recent MPH graduate
- Grown from an average of 4-5 participants to 10-12
- Includes other departments
- Public health practitioners
- Fireside chats
- Informal learning opportunity for students to meet with a practicing public health professionals
- recent chats
- Dr. Scott Zimmerman - Director, Erie County Public Health Laboratory, Epidemiology and Environmental Health
- Mr. Robert Furlani - Assistant Regional Director, New York State Department of Health, Western Regional Office
- Advocacy and Leadership
- NYS Rural Health Council - Governors appointment
- NYS association for Rural Health -Board member
- Area Health Education Center -Board member
- WNY Public Health Alliance, Inc. -Board member
Recent Activities
- Workshops
- Resume writing for public health students
- Interviewing skills for public health students
- Seminars
- HIV Prevention in High Risk Urban Communities (Kim Rook)
- Chronic Disease in New York State (Dave Hoffman)
- Berger Commission Update (Sheila Kee)
- The Role of the Foundation in Health Care (Ann Monroe)
- Rural health policy in NYS (Karen Madden, NYSDOH)
- NYS Fish Consumption advisory (Dr. Ed horn, NYSDOH)
- Field Trips
- Niagara County Board of Health
- Batavia Sewage Treatment Plant
- Collaborations
- WNY Public Health Alliance, Inc. – Advanced Practice Center Emergency Preparedness
- WNYPHA/ Eight county health departments, Regional Community Health Assessments
- American Heart Association/School of Medicine and Biomedical Science and Wilson Greatbatch- “The Heart of Research”
- P2 Collaborative- Data Action Advisory Team, and the Equity in Health Care Task Force
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure WNY Affiliate- Community Profile Team
- Advance practice Center for Rural Public Health Emergency
- NYS Association for Rural Health (hosting web site)
- University Consortium for Rural Health
- New Affiliation Agreements
- Genesee County Health Department
- WNY Rural AHEC (in progress)
- Lake Plains Community Care Network (in progress)
- Mentoring
- Interim Public Health Director, Genesee County
- Public Health Director, Orleans County
- Recruitment
- SUNY Fredonia
- Roberts Wesleyan
Contact Information
Donald Rowe, PhD,
Director
420 Kimball Tower
716-829-6776
Elisa Rodriguez, PhD,
Outreach Coordinator
319 Kimball Tower
716-829-6680
