摘要：As the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Welch-Rose report approaches, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) has been pursuing two initiatives to spark innovation in academic partnerships for enhancing population health: (1) Framing the Future: The Second 100 Years of Education for Public Health and (2) Reconnecting Public Health and Care Delivery to Improve the Health of Populations. We describe how ASPPH-member schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, along with their extraordinarily diverse array of partners, are working to improve education that better prepares health professionals to meet 21st-century population health needs. Since the 1915 Welch–Rose report called for a new professional training program in the emerging field of organized public health, the field has struggled to secure its identity among the various clinical and nonclinical professions that contribute to population health. 1–3 Al Sommer famously penned in 1995 that “public health is a goal, not a profession.” 4 (p657) He reflected both the importance and the enormity of the task and the great diversity of people who contribute to improvements in health through myriad institutional structures, organizations, and systems. Although Welch–Rose clearly articulated the need for “professionals” trained in public health, it equivocated on the degree to which public health should belong to a cadre of specially trained professionals. Recent opportunities, including the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 5 are inspiring academic public health to encourage systems capable of navigating rapid changes in education and health care to ensure population health. As the 100th anniversary of the Welch-Rose report approaches, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) has been pursuing two initiatives to spark innovation in academic partnerships for enhancing the public’s health: Framing the Future: (1) The Second 100 Years of Education for Public Health Task Force (Framing the Future or task force) and (2) Reconnecting Public Health and Care Delivery to Improve the Health of Populations.
