Jasmine
Opusunju,
DrPH, MSEd, MCHES, CPH
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of the online MPH
Baylor University
Dr. Opusunju is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at Baylor University and serves as the Director of the MPH@Baylor (online) Program. She has almost 20 years of experience in community-based practice focused on advancing health equity. The scope of her community-based participatory research (CBPR) includes perceptions and health behavior, the built and physical environments, the social determinants of health, food systems, and health equity through community-driven solutions among minority populations.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The presenters of this talk want to share with the audience how they merged two similar assignments to create one holistic interprofessional encounter that would help students learn about, recognize and apply the social determinants. The goal was to move away from a more traditional introduction of these concepts and move toward a creative way to introduce the determinants to students through intensive and authentic work. Students from the Online Masters of Public Health and Athletic Training programs are enrolled in courses where they learn about the topics of IPC skills and SODH separately…