HLTH 660 - Professional Development Seminar

3 Credit(s)

In this course, students will gain practical experience working with a community agency to plan and implement a needs assessment. Needs assessments, or community health assessments, are used to identify an individual, and/or organizational concerns, assets, resources, and deficits for public health interventions. Students will acquire skills related to the engagement of stakeholders, gathering primary and secondary sources of data, interpreting data to identify a health problem and its social/behavioral determinants, and prioritization of results to a problem statement. Students must take this course the semester prior to the start of their internship and professional projects. Community Health graduate students only. Spring.