 | Training Health Promotion Practicum Program Each semester, the PRC offers practicum opportunities for exceptional students. Past internships have been hosted by the Office of Recovery and Development Administration, Steps to a Healthier LA/New Orleans, the Renaissance Project, YMCA New Orleans, Women with a Vision, the New Orleans Food and Farm Network, and KaBOOM! Currently, the program requires students to work a total of 300 hours, which can fulfill both the 200-hour practicum and 100-hour culminating experience requirements. Students are encouraged to check with their advisor and their department requirements before applying. For more information on how the program works in the department of Community Health Sciences, please click here. PRC Practicum Interns have been successful in their positions. Learn how four interns were rewarded for their hard work. The program is generally announced at the end of each semester for the following semester. The Spring 2009 program will be announced soon. The program is also announced via Tulane SPHTM list serves and through elevator notices.
Seminar Series
Each month during the spring and fall semesters, the Prevention Research Center offers seminars on topics relating to our mission. For Fall 2008, we look forward to the following seminar presentations: | September 25 | Dr. Lawrence Green
UCSF Comprehensive
Cancer Center Tidewater, Room 1208 | Topic: "The Future of Prevention Research: If We Want More Evidence-Based Practice, We Need More Practice-Based Evidence" | www.lgreen.net | | | | | | October 24 | Dr. Joel Gittelsohn
Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School
of Medicine Tidewater, Room 1210 | Topic: “Food Store Interventions for Chronic Disease Prevention: Experiences of the Healthy Stores programs” | www.healthystores.org | | | | | | November 21 | Donna Cavato,
Samuel Green
Charter School Tidewater, Room 1210 | Topic: Edible Schoolyard
New Orleans | www.esynola.org |
Communication Series
Together with the Maternal and Child Public Health Leadership Training Program, the PRC provides a series of communications workshops for public health students. The series presents material on communications topics such as newsletters, websites, policy briefs, fact sheets, and new media. Through the series, we expose students to the types of communications they will be involved in as part of their public health career. The series is generally held one Thursday per month during the Fall and Spring semesters. For September, the topic will be public health campaigns featuring Faye Wong who conducted the successful VERB physical activity campaign for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. See the announcement here at Spotlight on: Public Health Writing Skills. | | |
