Academic Public Health SIG Workplan
Activity: Bimonthly webinars and other events
Outcome: Organisation of a diverse, high-quality range of speakers from across academic public health and related disciplines to present new research, offer practical support, and provide networking opportunities. Each event will include in its organisation a specific consideration of how relevance to service public health (and if appropriate global public health) can be maximised.
Target date: Ongoing
Named lead: SIG Co-Chairs
Progress to date: Ongoing
Outputs: Monitor attendance
Activity: Quarterly meetings
Outcome: Attendance at meetings by academic public health representatives from across the training ladder, across sub-specialties, and geographies. Periodical membership surveys to inform SIG activities. And to assess engagement across both academic and service PH.
Target date: Ongoing
Named lead: SIG Co-Chairs
Progress to date: Ongoing
Outputs: Attendance and engagement of members
Activity: Representation at ARC
Outcome: Raising the profile of the SIG, and providing a voice for the broader academic public health workforce to feed into the ARC.
Target date: Ongoing
Named lead: SIG Co-Chairs
Progress to date: Regular agenda item for SIG update at ARC meetings, and vice versa.
Outputs: SIG members present at each ARC meeting, and vice versa. Bidirectional input into development.
Activity: Raising the profile of the SIG amongst the academic public health workforce, and its interface with service PH and policy making and exploration of potential other ways to bring the community together (e.g. journal club, membership presentations, satellite meeting at national conference).
Outcome: Better connected academic public health workforce, connected through an active mailing list, WhatsApp group (voluntary), and regular meetings and events.
Target date: Ongoing
Named lead: SIG Co-Chairs
Progress to date: Ongoing
Outputs: Increase membership
Activity: Feed into the FPH curriculum update to ensure relevant academic competencies are included.
Outcome: Ensure relevant academic competencies and training opportunities are afforded to all public health registrars enrolled in specialty training.
Target date: 2025
Named lead: SIG Co-Chairs
Progress to date: Ongoing
Outputs: New curriculum
