Educate Generations of Public Health Leaders
We will ensure our students excel in understanding, conducting, and using rigorous science to advance population-level health.
Initiatives
Initiative #2a: Support students and graduates in being leaders in the science and practice of public health
- Provide the highest quality training in the science and art of public health
- Develop and implement a comprehensive leadership curriculum for students to prepare them to be public health leaders
- Expand career services to ensure that students can access the most impactful post-graduate employment/educational opportunities
- Reduce educational-loan debt, so that starting pay does not determine their career choice
- Foster an alumni network which provides lifelong connectivity and support for graduates, as well as meaningful connections with current students – creating a web of YSPH public health influence across the globe
Initiative #2b: Implement dynamic educational programs that address topical issues
- Expand training in the science and practice of real-world public health, joining coursework with a diversity of experiential learning opportunities
- Ensure availability of formal and informal coursework on emerging, pressing, and persistent public health challenges (in coordination with our four areas of research focus (see also: 4b)
- Develop new structures to allow timely knowledge synthesis, evaluation, and debate about emerging health issues
- Expand the development and dissemination of YSPH public health practice case studies
- (See also: 4b)
Initiative #2c: Develop innovative educational opportunities for learners from different backgrounds, lived experiences, and career stages, worldwide
- Broaden access to public health training by expanding our executive education programming and developing micro-credential programs
- Promote relationship-building among learners with different life experiences and perspectives, to foster public health collaborations across personal and political divides
- Ensure that certificate programs meet the needs of current and future generations of public health professionals
Initiative #2d: Create educational partnerships with the local community to support public health leadership
- Expand educational partnerships with New Haven community organizations on specific areas of focus
- Enhance local pipeline of public health students and leadership
- Continue support of New England public health workforce training
- (See also: 1c, 1d, 3d)
Quick Links
- IntroductionAn introduction letter to the YSPH Strategic Plan from Dean Megan Ranney
- Strategic Plan OverviewDownload a two page PDF that introduces the YSPH Strategic Plan
- Create Pathways for Translating Outstanding Science into Local and Global Health ImpactWe will both conduct world-class research and develop entrepreneurial frameworks that use our scholarship to tangibly improve societal well-being.
- Educate Generations of Public Health LeadersWe will ensure our students excel in understanding, conducting, and using rigorous science to advance population-level health.
- Foster Interconnected, Inclusive, and Interdisciplinary Public Health Communities, Within and Beyond YaleWe will invest in building resilient public health communities in our school, at Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut, and beyond.
- Shape the Future of Public Health Data Science & Artificial IntelligenceWe will meld ethics and equity with cutting-edge methods to shape how health-oriented data science is structured and used.
- Enhance Trust in the Science and Practice of Public HealthWe will support our students, faculty members, alumni, staff, and external partners in serving as trusted spokespeople for, and translators of, public health science.
- Achieve Strategic Imperatives through Operational and Financial ExcellenceWe will strengthen the administrative and financial management systems that are fundamental to our ability to achieve our mission.