The Healthy People Curriculum Task Force, convened by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, is seeking health professions and public health faculty with expertise in population health to serve on a national curriculum revision workgroup for one year beginning in October 2023.
Faculty experts are needed to serve on four component-specific workgroups of the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework, a national teaching resource that provides a common core of knowledge for clinical health professions about individual and population‐oriented prevention and health promotion efforts. The Framework was first published by the Task Force in 2004 and undergoes revision every five years.
Curriculum Revision Workgroups
1. Foundations of Population Health
2. Clinical Preventive Services & Health Promotion
3. Clinical Practice & Population Health
4. Health Systems & Health Policy
Role of Workgroups
The workgroups will address redundancy, gaps, and recommend major and minor editing for their respective Framework Component. Workgroups will also review edits proposed to other Components and may participate in the open comment period revisions and final review. The Workgroups will assemble comments and proposed edits into one document for sharing with the Task Force and other curriculum revision workgroups in December 2023, March 2024, and June 2024.
Eligibility to Serve on Workgroups
The Task Force encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographic areas. Faculty wishing to serve on a workgroup must be either an APTR member or member representative (departmental membership) or from a member institution represented by a Task Force-member association
Selection
Selections wll be made by the nominees' respective health professions education associations by November 10, 2023. Workgroup members will be selected to balance expertise and perspectives on each workgroup.
Length of Service: November 2023 through December 2024
Estimated Time Commitment: 3 hours/month October-May; 1 hour/month June-December