Community-centered Public Health: Strategies, Tools, and Applications for Advancing Health Equity

Community-Centered Public Health provides students of public health and related health professions with the strategies, tools, and applications needed to build and deliver effective public health programs. This practical textbook emphasizes the importance of integrating community leaders throughout the program planning, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination processes, and of tailoring public health approaches based on culture, context, values, and the environment to advance health equity and improve population health. Community-Centered Public Health equips students with key frameworks, knowledge, skills, and an appropriate mindset for working with communities to deliver community-centered initiatives across public health domains.

This text delivers detailed discussions on the community engagement framework, community-centered public health principles, and the key considerations in defining community, establishing community governance, understanding the bidirectional process of leadership and mentorship, and community-centered program evaluation. Community-Centered Public Health also focuses on applications across policy, research, and community practice, community-based participatory research (CBPR), community public health crisis response and resilience, health communication and prevention marketing, and more, to inspire the next generation of public health and community leaders to consistently practice with their communities in mind. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.

Key Features:

• Chapters strategically coauthored by public health and community leaders with long histories of developing and sustaining equitable public health partnerships
• Includes engaging Case Studies, Vignettes, Audio interviews, Discussion Questions and real-world examples that shed light on best practices and foster critical thinking
• Shares lessons learned and impactful experiences from community and public health leaders working to improve population health and health equity on the frontlines
• Identifies specific, relevant Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) Foundational Competencies in each chapter
• Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring a Sample Syllabus and an Instructor Manual with learning activities and discussion questions for each chapter, and additional resources to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text

Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH, is Professor and Chair of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Community Engagement at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida College of Public Health where she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health in the Department of Community and Family Health.

Stephanie Miles-Richardson, DVM, PhD, is the founding Chair of the Department of Public Health Education at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). Dr. Miles-Richardson also serves as Associate Dean of the division of Graduate Education in Public Health and Director of the Master of Public Health Program.