Community Health Program Planning (EPH542b)

The Community Health Program Planning course provides opportunities for students to work with local organizations. First offered in 1968, many alumni who completed this course remember the experience as a formative part of their MPH training. Dozens of local organizations have benefited from these projects.

As the course is currently designed, students develop skills in planning and designing public health programs. Course content is based on an ecological framework, principles of public health ethics, and a philosophy of problem-based learning. Assignments are built around a practicum project designed and implemented on behalf of a local agency or organization. Some recent field reports are available below.

Community organizations interested in benefiting from such a project, and serving as preceptors to MPH students, are encouraged to contact Debbie Humphries for further information.

Field Action Reports 2012


Community Health Program Planning Team: Xindi Fang, Mariam Girguis, Stephanie Shao, Isy Tavarez
Preceptor: Chris Cole
Faculty Advisor: Debbie Humphries
Teaching Assistant: Britton Gibson

Community Health Program Planning Team: Margaret Lippitt, Ana Sierra, Katie Stetler, Yao Yang
Preceptors: Kevin Irwin,  Shawn Lang
Faculty Advisor: Derrick Gordon
Teaching Assistant: Stephanie Platis

Student team: Tiffanie Jones, Frank Lin, Avantika Saraf
Preceptor: Alix Pose-Sussman
Faculty Advisor:  Mehmet Sofuoglu
Teaching Assistant:  Katherine LaMonaca 

Community Health Program Planning Team: Brigette Davis, Amelia Reese, Kate Schedel, Surabhi Srivastava, Jamille Taylor, Bridget Whitney
Preceptor: Susan Lane
Faculty Advisor: Linda Niccolai
Teaching Assistant: Britton Gibso

Field Action Reports 2011


Optimus Health Care: Smoking Cessation and HIV in a Connecticut-based Community Health Care Center
Preceptor: Alix Pose 
Faculty Advisor: David Fiellin 
Students: Bill Hayes, Mia Kanak, Katie LaMonaca, Jason Yost 

Program Preceptor: Krista Heybruck 
Faculty Advisor: Denise Stevens 
Students: Nicholas DeVito, Britton Gibson, Blanca Paccha, Stephanie Platis

Field Action Reports 2010

Assessing HIV/AIDS Prevention Services in Three Connecticut Cities
 Community Health Program Planning Team: A. Butts, W. Hubbard, R. Sam, A. Cook
Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition: S. Lang

Physical Activity and Early Education Weight Management in a Low-Income Setting: Program-Based Assessment
 Community Health Program Planning Team: Emily F. Cole, Jaymie Potteiger, and Hongmei Zeng, Laena Orkin
Community Renewal Team: Krista Heybruck-Santiago, Ashley Debenian 

An Evaluation of the Collaboration Potential of Diabetes Programs in New Haven, Connecticut
 Community Health Program Planning Team:  Debbie Chin, Amy Peng, Raj Prattipati, Plinio Silva, Laena Orkin
Yale-New Haven Hospital:  Gary R. Smart  

City Scape: Community Perspectives on Nutrition Social Marketing
Community Health Program Planning Team:  Sharon Taylor & Tyra Pendergrass, (TA) Eliza Little
CitySeed Partner/Preceptors:  Erin Wirpsa Eisenberg & Nicole Berube