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Carlos del Rio, MD
Executive Associate Dean & Distinguished Professor
Emory School of Medicine & Grady Health System

Monica Webb Hooper, PhD
Deputy Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institutes of Health

Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH
​Professor & Dean
Former Acting US Surgeon General and Deputy US Surgeon General
University of Maryland School of Public Health

Rae O'Leary, MPH, RN
Public Health Analyst
Missouri Breaks Industries Research 

Stephen J. Thomas, MD
​Lead PI for Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial
​Chief of Infectious Diseases & Director, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences
SUNY Upstate Medical University

​Teaching Prevention 2021:
Promoting Adaptability, Resiliency, & Sustainability
March 8-10, 2021

​Ignite your passion for teaching and engage around issues of ​education innovation, prevention science, and social justice.

The APTR annual meeting provides an opportunity to build your professional network from across the academic prevention community. Faculty from medicine, public health, and other health professions focus on the knowledge, skills, collaborations, and resources needed to teach, practice, and promote population health improvement. During Teaching Prevention, the academic prevention community will explore initiatives and share efforts across institutions, disciplines, and professions to advance innovative teaching, research, practice, and evaluation in prevention.​​

​​Attendees

• Faculty at public health, medical and health professions schools 
• Directors from public health programs 
• Department chairs of population health/preventive medicine
• Residents
• Students

Teaching Prevention 2021 To Go Virtual

The health and safety of Teaching Prevention attendees and the students, patients, and communities they serve are our highest priority. 

CREATE

Create an environment for prevention, public health, and health professions faculty, students, and leaders to ignite their passion for teaching and engage around issues of education innovation, prevention science, and social justice.

CONVENE

​Convene faculty and students from across the health professions to share teaching strategies and evidence-based approaches for improving population health.

COLLABORATE

Strengthen and foster new interprofessional collaborations to share, learn, grow, and connect with other passionate learners.

Conference Goals & Learning Objectives

Conference Goals

1. Create an environment for prevention, public health, and health professions faculty, students, and leaders to ignite their passion for teaching and engage around issues of education innovation, prevention science, and social justice.
2. Convene faculty and students from across the health professions to share teaching strategies and evidence-based approaches for improving population health.
3. Strengthen and foster new interprofessional collaborations to share, learn, grow, and connect with other passionate learners.

Conference Learning Objectives

1. Describe innovative teaching, research, and practice methods in prevention and population health.
2. Analyze strategies for addressing current public health issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy, racism, indigenous health, and health disparities.
3. Adapt teaching strategies to the virtual learning environment, including experiential opportunities and exercises.
4. Identify methods for developing and nurturing student, faculty and healthcare worker resilience during challenging times.
5. Compare successful practices in interprofessional education and collaboration that address clinical prevention and population health.
6. Discuss public health workforce needs and roles for the future.