title: Academic-practice partnerships for community health workforce development.
abstract: Despite increasing attention to academic-practice partnerships for health practice and workforce development, guidelines for how to implement such partnerships are few. The Kansas Public Health Workforce and Leadership Development (WALD) Center provides a successful example of such a partnership. The WALD Center implements public health education and training projects through a collaborative process of health needs identification, program conceptualization, research, and program evaluation. Such coordination allows for continuous practitioner-oriented program development and the sharing of a rural state's scarce resources between interconnected projects. The WALD Center's methods provide a model for academic-practice partnerships for community health practice and workforce development, even in environments with scarce health resources.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Wichita, KS 67214-3199, USA. shawley@kumc.edu
authors.forename: Suzanne R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Hawley
authors.forename: Craig A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Molgaard
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ablah
authors.forename: Shirley A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Orr
authors.forename: Julia E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Oler-Manske
authors.forename: Theresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: St Romain
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007615:Kansas; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D020380:Needs Assessment; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011634:Public Health; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*