Newswise — The Association of Schools of Public Health and the Association of Public Health Laboratories have named UMDNJ-School of Public Health one of ten recipients of an award promoting careers in public health related professions. The School of Public Health was recognized for its funding proposal promoting "Pathways to Public Health Careers and Internships."
Mitchel Rosen, director of the school's Office of Public Health Practice, collaborated with school Fieldwork Coordinators Michelle Kennedy and Deidre Holland and obtained the $30,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will allow them to organize conferences on public health careers. The conferences will be offered in the spring at a community college in northern and southern New Jersey.
The conferences will demonstrate the diverse opportunities within the profession, while providing valuable dialogue opportunities between students and professionals and recent graduates, as well as an experiential learning opportunity. Individuals recruited for the conference will include students at two and four year colleges in the majors of allied health, environmental science, biology, nursing, political science and business.
Rosen said the goal of the conferences is to educate students on the importance of public health careers, how they will benefit from working in the profession and how the public health industry will benefit from their expertise.
"The Pathways to Public Health career day events and undergraduate internship programs will help address the public health workforce shortage that threatens our country," said Rosen. "UMDNJ is proud to be a recipient of a grant that will encourage undergraduate students to explore careers in public health."
The UMDNJ-School of Public Health is the nation's first accredited collaborative school of public health and is sponsored by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in cooperation with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and New Jersey Institute of Technology.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is the nation's largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,600 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a statewide mental health and addiction services network.
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