Academic Public Health SIG Workplan

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