Public Health, Prevention, Population Health and Policy (P4)
Description: This concentration offers the opportunity for students to obtain the knowledge, skills and experience needed to address health care issues at the community or population level. Population health outcomes are the result of much more than individualized clinical service. Other determinants include economics, legislation, culture, politics, and the environment. Projects in this concentration will focus on finding root causes of health problems and disparities and finding practical and evidence-based solutions. Population-level skills such as epidemiology and public health policy formulation will be stressed and taught as complimentary to those needed for individual patient care. This concentration provides training for those who want to explore their potential for leadership in community health systems and for those who want to maximize their effectiveness as a physician in the community.
The concentration director is Doug Campos-Outcalt MD, MPA, Associate Head of the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Possible Longitudinal Project Areas
- Public Health
- Community health assessment and improvement
- Infectious disease control
- Tuberculosis
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy)
- Valley Fever
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Food and water born diseases
- Maternal and child health
- Access to prenatal care
- Immunization policy
- Newborn screening
- School health
- Chronic disease control
- Cancer
- Heart Disease
- Obesity
- Lung Disease
- Diabetes
- Tobacco related diseases
- Substance abuse
- Environmental health
- Water quality
- Air quality
- Toxic exposures
- Public health emergency preparedness
- Disaster response
- Bioterrorism
- Special populations
- Native American
- African American
- Mexican American and other Hispanics
- Asian American
- Recent immigrants/refugees
- Clinical Prevention
- Evaluation of clinical preventive interventions
- Implementation of prevention guidelines
- Changing unhealthy and risky behavior
- Health Services Research
- Administration of health services
- Health service and outcome disparities
- Quality assurance and improvement
- Clinical guideline formulation, dissemination and adoption
- Health Care Policy
- Liability reform
- Access to care
- Health workforce
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