On March 16, 2015, I presented our ERHD program at the annual Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina. The title of my paper presentation was, “A New Online Strategy in Teaching Ethnic Health and Health Disparities to Public Health Professionals.” Not only did I give an oral presentation to the audience but I also presented a poster board presentation.
During both presentations, I received a great response from the audience and lots of interest in the total design, structure, delivery, content, and public health professionals who graduated from our ERHD program. From the discussions that I had from all of the interested conference attendees, our Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) program was viewed very favorably and surprised on how successful we have been able to deliver a completely online graduate certificate program that focuses on ethnic and rural health disparities.
Although not surprising, we are still a unique and one-of-a-kind program in which other universities would like to duplicate and/or develop a collaboration with us. This is truly great news!!
In summary, I appreciated the opportunity to present our study of the ERHD program at the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) conference. The connection, exposure and networking with key public health professionals at major universities helped to further market our ERHD program to completely new potential audiences. Finally, I feel extremely pleased that our ERHD program and all the graduates from our ERHD program are apart of a special, cutting-edge, and innovative graduate certificate online program that is paving the way for future online graduate education programs in public health and medicine.
Check out a couple of photos from the APTR conference.