{"id":122866,"date":"2018-03-29T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=122866"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:32:59","slug":"not-changing-is-not-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2018\/not-changing-is-not-acceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Changing Is Not Acceptable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"banner-container banner-has-html\">\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\" style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.25%; \/* 16:9 *\/height: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"855\" height=\"481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=2FjDST0\" style=\"position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%;frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">March 29, 2018<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>As issues such as climate change, gun violence, and healthcare costs become more urgent, public health educators are increasingly recognizing the need to change teaching modalities to reflect the needs of an evolving world.<\/p>\n<p>How to enact those changes was the subject of a daylong Dean\u2019s Symposium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/public-health-conversations\/deans-symposia\/teaching-public-health\/\">\u201cTeaching Public Health,\u201d<\/a> held on March 28 at the School of Public Health. The symposium featured nine sessions and 37 speakers and panelists, including deans, faculty, public health organizations leaders, and academic journal editors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigher education can either reinvent itself or become obsolete,\u201d said Laura Maga\u00f1a Valladares, president and chief executive officer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspph.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)<\/a>. \u201cThe advances we are making are good, but they are not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maga\u00f1a\u00a0<span>Valladares<\/span>, who was the academic dean of Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Public Health (INSP) before taking the lead at ASPPH, presented her vision of a future where technology allows for radically different ways of educating. Curricula should focus on mastery, she said, not on reaching certain benchmarks in set periods of time. Higher education should also become a lifelong process instead of a once-in-a-lifetime event, with professionals returning to learn new skills as needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to mentor instead of lecture, and in order to do this we will need to come out from our silos and our standalone institutions into alliances and networks,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need a new mindset to really revolutionize education, and the time to rethink and redesign the entire higher education system is now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donna Petersen, dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/health.usf.edu\/publichealth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">College of Public Health at the University of South Florida<\/a> and senior associate vice president of USF Health, agreed. \u201cWe are in the midst of an incredible transformation,\u201d she said. \u201cNot changing is not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petersen chaired the 2011\u20132015 ASPPH task force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspph.org\/teach-research\/framing-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cFraming the Future: The Second Hundred Years of Education in Public Health.\u201d<\/a> The 1915 Welch\u2013Rose Report, which first described a model for public health education, focused on training physicians to lead the health departments that were just beginning to appear; the \u201cFraming the Future\u201d report called for a reshaped master\u2019s of public health (MPH) program that focused on foundational competencies and practice-based learning.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence is vital to the work of reshaping public health education, said Marie Deiner-West, chair of the Master of Public Health Program and inaugural Abbey-Merrell Professor of Biostatistics Education at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhsph.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<\/a>. \u201cWe need to teach the skills that are useful in the workplace, not what we think is useful in the workplace,\u201d she said. That requires workforce analysis and other data collection, as well as sharing assessment methods between schools and programs, \u201cas we are today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><div class=\"bu-slideshow-container teaching-symposium autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-123174\" data-slideshow-name=\"teaching-symposium\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-123174\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-30-at-3.56.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Laura Maga\u00f1a Valladares. All photos by Jake Belcher\/BU Photography.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Carey-Goldberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Carey Goldberg, Editor,<i>CommonHealth<\/i> Blog, WBUR<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Georges-Benjamin.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Donna-Petersen.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Donna Petersen, Senior Associate Vice President USF Health; Dean, College of Public Health, University of South Florida<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_4\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Alfredo-Morabia.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Alfredo Morabia, Professor of Epidemiology, Barry Commoner Center, Queens College, CUNY, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Editor in Chief, <i>American Journal of Public Health<\/i><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_5\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-30-at-3.56.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Audrey Ceschia, Editor in Chief, <i>The Lancet Public Health<\/i> <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_6\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Marie-Diener-West.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Marie Diener-West, Chair, Master of Public Health Program and Abbey-Merrell Professor of Biostatistics Education, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_7\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-30-at-3.56.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">From left: Linda A. Alexander, Senior Associate Dean for Academic, Student, and Faculty Affairs, School of Public Health, West Virginia University; Lorraine Conroy, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_8\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-30-at-3.56.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Matthew L. Boulton, Editor in Chief, <i>American Journal of Preventive Medicine<\/i>, and Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_9\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-30-at-3.56.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">From left: Greg Evans, Dean, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University; Wayne LaMorte, Assistant Dean for Education; Delia Lang, Research Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health; and T. Stephen Jones, Associate Editor, <i>Public Health Reports<\/i><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_10\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Randy-Wykoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Randy Wykoff, Dean, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_11\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/David-Kleinbaum.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">David Kleinbaum, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_12\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Nancy-Kane.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Nancy Kane, Professor of Management and Co-Chair, Task Force on Educational Quality, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_13\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Jacey-Greece-and-Wolffy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">From left: Jacey Greece, Clinical Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences; James Wolff, Associate Professor of Global Health<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_14\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Lloyd-Novick.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Lloyd F. Novick, Editor in Chief, <i>Journal of Public Health Management and Practice<\/i>; Professor Emeritus, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_15\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Gerber.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Daniel Gerber, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, UMass Amherst<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_16\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Laura-Linnan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Laura A. Linnan, Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_17\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/LuAnn-White.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">LuAnn White, Senior Associate Dean for Academics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_18\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Kathryn-Cardarelli.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Kathryn Cardarelli, Assistant Provost for Faculty Advancement, University of Kentucky<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_19\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Yvette-and-Sophie.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">From left: Yvette Cozier, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion; Sophie Godley, Director of Undergraduate Programs<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_20\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/James-Dunn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">James R. Dunn, Co-Editor in Chief (Canada), <i>Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health<\/i>; Chair, Department of Health, Aging, and Society, McMaster University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_21\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Perry-Halkitis.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Perry Halkitis, Dean and Professor of Biostatistics and Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Rutgers University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_22\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Lauren-Arnold-and-Richard-Riegelman.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">From left: Richard Riegelman, Professor and Founding Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University; Lauren D. Arnold, Director of Undergraduate Public Health Programs, College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_23\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Gene-and-Joel-Lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">From left: Eugene Declercq, Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education, DrPH Program; Joel Lee, Professor of Healthcare Administration, College of Public Health, University of Georgia<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_24\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Tanya-Uden-Holman.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Tanya Uden-Holman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_25\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/John-Allegrante.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">John Allegrante, Editor in Chief, <i>Health Education &amp; Behavior<\/i>; Professor, Teachers College and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_26\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Sandro.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_27\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/04\/Lisa-Sullivan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Lisa Sullivan, Associate Dean for Education and Professor of Biostatistics<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-123174_28\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-30-at-3.56.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Speakers and panelists gather at start of symposium.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-123174\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-6\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>6<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-7\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>7<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-8\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>8<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-9\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>9<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-10\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>10<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-11\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>11<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-12\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>12<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-13\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>13<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-14\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>14<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-15\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>15<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-16\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>16<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-17\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>17<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-18\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>18<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-19\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>19<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-20\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>20<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-21\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>21<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-22\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>22<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-23\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>23<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-24\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>24<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-25\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>25<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-26\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>26<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-27\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>27<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-28\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>28<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-29\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>29<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<\/span>Several speakers underscored the importance of active learning in public health, a teaching approach that \u201cstrives to more directly get students to participate in the learning process rather than to be passively learning,\u201d said David Kleinbaum, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rollins School of Public Health<\/a>. \u201cHow it is taught is as important as what is taught.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Kane, professor of management and co-chair of the Task Force on Educational Quality at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health<\/a>, argued for using a case- and discussion-based teaching method to \u201cflip the classroom.\u201d When students have a public health scenario to work with, Kane said, they are able to guide where a class goes, developing skills in communication, critical thinking, and other areas that will remain relevant long after a piece of hard knowledge becomes outdated. Working something out for themselves also makes students retain much more, Kane said: \u201cI get emails five years later saying, \u2018Remember that case? It was helpful to me today in my job.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students also need to be challenged in fundamental and personal ways, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/yvette-cozier\/\">Yvette Cozier<\/a>, assistant dean for diversity and inclusion and associate professor of epidemiology, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/sophie-godley\/\">Sophie Godley<\/a>, director of undergraduate programs and clinical assistant professor of community health sciences. \u201cStructural inequities are often reflected in our classrooms,\u201d Cozier said during a panel on diversity and inclusion. Addressing unconscious biases, Godley asked, \u201cIf we can\u2019t hold each other accountable in the classroom, how can we hold each other accountable in the real world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many speakers also pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/marchforourlives.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March for Our Lives<\/a> rallies four days earlier as an example of how young people are increasingly recognizing the intersection of public health and social justice. \u201cThey are clearly engaged,\u201d said Audrey Ceschia, editor in chief of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanpub\/issue\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Lancet Public Health<\/em><\/a>. Kathryn Cardarelli, assistant provost for faculty advancement at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uky.edu\/UKHome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Kentucky<\/a>, agreed. \u201cThe students are out there ahead of us,\u201d she said.\u00a0 <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Georges Benjamin, executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Public Health Association (APHA)<\/a>, echoed the sentiment. \u201cThese young men and women are absolutely fearless,\u201d he said. A former secretary of health for the state of Maryland, Benjamin described the way public health increasingly combines \u201cthe basic work that we still have to do\u201d in essential services and preparedness with greater engagement with social justice and the new challenges of globalization and technology. That is the public health landscape students will be taking over soon: \u201cThe joints ultimately do give out,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all have to retire.\u201d<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/sandro-galea\/\">Sandro Galea<\/a>, dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/lisa-sullivan\/\">Lisa Sullivan<\/a>, associate dean for education and professor of biostatistics, convened the symposium around their forthcoming book, <em>Teaching Public Health<\/em>, which includes chapters written by many of the day\u2019s speakers. The international audience of almost 300 came from as far away as London, Berlin, and Tel Aviv, with more than 340 more watching the symposium via Livestream.\u00a0Carey Goldberg, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/commonhealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CommonHealth<\/a>, served as master of ceremonies for the day&#8217;s proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an extraordinarily exciting time in terms of teaching public health, because the world is changing, the world\u2019s needs are changing, and how we teach and what we teach and when we teach and the modality of how we\u2019re teaching is changing,\u201d Galea said in introducing the day\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a tremendous opportunity to shape the future of public health education,\u201d Sullivan added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"mailto:msamu@bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Michelle Samuels<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At daylong Dean\u2019s Symposium, leaders of public health schools, journals, and organizations discussed path forward for academic public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10989,"featured_media":122940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[2734,2434,2371,1988],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[3519,3521,3525,3528,3530,3531,3541],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[487,311,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/122866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122866"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/122866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175241,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/122866\/revisions\/175241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122866"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=122866"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=122866"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=122866"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=122866"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=122866"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=122866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}