Mission Statement
Continuing Education constitutes a core activity of the American Public Health Association. The mission of the Continuing Education (CE) Program at the Association is to maintain and enhance professional knowledge, to increase technical proficiencies, and to enable members to promote and protect environmental and community health.
Membership of the American Public Health Association includes a multi-disciplinary professional audience. The Continuing Education Program will continually seek to ascertain the ongoing educational needs of its discipline-specific membership including Physicians, Registered Nurses, Certified Health Education Specialists, and other public health professionals. Public health professionals are employed in a variety of settings including: government agencies, non-governmental agencies, clinical practice, academia, and industry.
The Continuing Education Program will develop and modify programs to meet these changing discipline-specific educational needs. The provision of quality health services by public health professionals is interdependent with other discipline-specific public health professionals. Hence, wherever feasible, educational programs will be interdisciplinary with knowledgeable public health professionals representing a variety of public health disciplines.
Quality comprehensive educational programming must be based on sound educational principles. The format of the educational programming being presented use a variety of modalities including but not limited to: lecture/discussion, institutes, panel discussions and small group presentations.
This comprehensive educational programming is currently limited to our Annual Meetings. Our Annual Meeting includes scientific sessions and an opportunity for in-depth learning at our half-day and full-day institutes. Future programming could expand beyond the scope of the Annual Meeting.
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