title: Perspectives on a community-based course for public health students.
abstract: In recent years, there has been an increase in collaborations between universities and local community agencies. During the 2005-2006 academic year, the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health began a community-university partnership with Hosanna House Inc., a local community service center. The initial phase of this partnership included holding a departmental community development course at the community service center. Information from student journals, course evaluations, and key informant interviews were used to describe the attitudes and perspectives of the students, course instructor, and key informants toward this experience. Overall, this experience positively affected the personal and professional development of the students and was well received by faculty and staff within the academic department and community service center. The authors anticipate that this information will promote and serve as a reference for similar community-university partnerships at other schools of public health.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health, Behavior & Society in Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Natasha A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Eric G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Hulsey
authors.forename: Yvette M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Wing
authors.forename: Anna T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Shruti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramachandran
authors.forename: Mara E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: DeLuca
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: Jessica G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Burke
mesh_terms: D003151:Community Health Centers; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D040381:Education, Public Health Professional / Q000379:methods*; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010414:Pennsylvania; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012581:Schools, Public Health; D040443:Students, Public Health