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How can we make healthcare more accessible? Dr. April R. Ruffin combines her longtime love of the performing arts, science, and community education to revolutionize health literacy. In Episode 17 of The Balance to Excellence Show, she shares how honoring and merging diverse passions exponentially increases her impact in medicine and in the community. Watch now to discover innovative approaches to community health education: https://lnkd.in/eMCKeNMm #HealthLiteracy #Healthcare #CommunityEducation

Check out the latest in our Health Education Series!

Students at the Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen (HECM) recently had the opportunity to collaborate with local health care organizations and the community for a class designed to give them experience addressing challenges in public health. https://lnkd.in/gPUmDZtM

It's National Health Education Week (#NHEW) in the United States. "NHEW activities increase awareness of major public health issues and promote a better understanding of the role of health education and health promotion," according to the Society for Public Health Education. It's a good week to explore Ask the Scientists, an excellent resource designed to help educate the public about the human body, health, and how USANA products impact the body. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/geQijSAb

This webinar features Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE), University of Minnesota Center for Interprofessional Health, and Creighton Center for Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research (CIPER) who will address challenges in designing IPE curricula by presenting models for defining, organizing, and evaluating interprofessional learning experiences. Register here and learn more: bit.ly/492HHle

We're excited to support the next generation workforce in their development as future health care leaders. Watch the video below to learn how Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences in Charlotte, North Carolina is providing opportunities for future health care professionals to achieve their goals through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Healthcare Education Initiative in collaboration with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Carolinas College and Atrium Health.

This week we turn our program completion comparisons to graduate and undergraduate health care programs for midwestern private colleges. For college leaders, these comparisons will provide data-driven comparisons you can use to better position your organization for strategic growth, cutbacks, and partnerships. As a student or parent, program completion comparisons enable you to make sure the college(s) programs and majors you are considering have enough completion values to have a low risk of being cut. https://lnkd.in/gDiX5fqu

From the Physician Assistant program at the University of Detroit Mercy: "Experiences with service-learning allow future healthcare professionals to better understand diverse and vulnerable populations while becoming compassionate leaders." https://lnkd.in/gF7xq4TA

National Health Education Week is focused on increasing national awareness on major public health issues and promoting a better understanding of the role of health education. Learn more from the Society for Public Health Education here: https://lnkd.in/eZb8nW5

And a second article accepted! “Active Recess: school break time as a setting for physical activity promotion in European primary schools”! To be published in the Health Education Journal With Nadia Samsudin, Claude Scheuer