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American Network of Health Promoting Universities Advisory Council:

Louis W. Sullivan, MD
President, Morehouse School of Medicine, chair

Ronald R. Blanck, DO
President, University of North Texas
Health Sciences Center at Fort Worth

Jo Ivey Boufford, MD
Dean, The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University Medical Center

Mary Jane England, MD
President, Regis College

Maria S. Gomez, RN, MPH
Executive Director, Mary's Center for
Maternal and Child Care

H. Garland Hershey, Jr., DDS
Consultant to the Chancellor for Health Affairs,  UNC at Chapel Hill

     American Network of Health Promoting Universities  is an outgrowth of a partnership begun in 1994 between CenterNet and the Association of Academic Health Centers (AHC). CenterNet has delivered over 170 hours of programs to health care professionals nationwide, became an online provider of NIH CME/CE accreditation/certification, and since 2001 has expanded its focus to patients and the general population.  Advances in Diabetes Care (ADC) began in 2001 as small patient education seminars at Morehouse School of Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, and two non-AHC institutions in Boston (New England Medical Center and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy). The program has developed into a recognized community education model providing up-to-date chronic disease information to patients and primary care physicians.

     The goal of AHC’s American Network of Health Promoting Universities (ANHPU)* is to enhance the role of academic leaders and expand the contributions of academic institutions in health promotion. This initiative puts to use the leadership, reputation, and clinical expertise of AHC member institutions to provide community-based health promotion and disease prevention educational services. To paraphrase Dr. James Gavin, president of the Morehouse School of Medicine, “Centers of discovery have a responsibility to be centers of community education.”
 

 

 


 

 

 

Key Features
 

  • Objectives: educate patients and clinicians about latest advances in care and assist patients in accessing community resources.
     
  • AHC member institution provides faculty member and sometimes site for lecture presentation for patients and primary care providers also, screening personnel and site when appropriate
Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Michigan, and CEO, University of Michigan Health System

Reverend Joseph L. Roberts, Jr.
Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church

William L. Roper, MD, MPH
Dean, School of Public Health,
UNC at Chapel Hill

David S. Rosenthal, MD
Director, Harvard University Health Services

Barbara Ross-Lee, DO
Vice President, Health Sciences and Medical Affairs, and Dean, School of Allied Health and Life Sciences,
New York Institute of Technology

Andrew A. Sorensen, PhD
President, University of Alabama
  • Secures unrestricted educational grants to provide staff to organize events and coordinate with national partners and community resources
     
  • Local partners such as national drug store chains, foundation/association chapters, civic organizations, provide in-kind support (outreach, publicity, etc.)
     

Contact AHC Outreach

  AHC Outreach
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529 14th Street, NW, Suite 1292
Washington, DC 20045

Phone
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Harrison C. Spencer, MD, MPH President, Association of Schools of Public Health

James A. Zimble, MD
President, Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences


 

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