Population Health

Population Health Nursing

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Academic Partnerships to Improve Health focuses on building public health workforce capacity and improving health of individuals and communities through alliances among academic associations and CDC. AACN works together with the CDC and other national organizations to enhance education on population health and promote opportunities for students to pursue hands-on clinical experiences in community settings. 

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CDC-AACN Public Health Fellows
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Building Vaccine Confidence
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Featured Publication

Featured Publication

The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education

Used to define quality in nursing education, the AACN Essentials outline the necessary curriculum content and expected competencies of graduates from baccalaureate, master’s, and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs.  AACN is committed to providing resources, education, and facilitate this transformation.

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Domain 3: Population Health

Domain 3: Population Health

From the Essentials: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.

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Featured Resources

Featured Resource

Navigating a Foodborne Outbreak: Preparation for Interprofessional Practice 

Designed to facilitate collaboration and shared learning experiences among nursing, medical, and public health students, Navigating a Foodborne Outbreak: Preparation for Interprofessional Practice is a free, self-paced, interactive, online teaching module demonstrating the importance of interprofessional practice among health professionals to improve and protect population health.  

The module was developed with funding from the CDC to the four national associations that comprise CDC’s Academic Partnerships to Improve Health initiative: American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, Association of American Medical Colleges, and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.  For more information, please visit the Training Module Press Release. 

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Please contact Allison Jacobs, Associate Director of Special Projects, at ajacobs@aacnnursing.org.