Chair: Jesús García-Martínez (Indiana University South Bend)

Board Champions: Fevzi Akinci (Duquesne University)

Strategic Priorities

• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in health professions education and healthcare practice.

  • Increase representation of underrepresented minorities (URMs) within member institutions.

  • Increase satisfaction with DEI efforts.

  • Increase the percentage of programs incorporating DEI strategies into their curriculum.

  • Increase engagement with diverse communities in the work of ASAHP.

Chair: Rafael Bahamonde (IUPUI)

Board Champion: Jon Williamson (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

Strategic Priorities

• Develop and equip leaders with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in their administrative roles.

  • Increase numbers of qualified candidates for leadership roles in health professions education programs.

  • Increase knowledge, skills, competence, and confidence of leaders at all levels.

  • Increase participation in the mentoring program.

Chair: Alfreda Harper Harrison (Winston Salem State University)

Board Champion: Susan Gordon-Hickey (University of South Alabama)

SUBCOMMITTEES & TASK FORCES

International Task Force

Chair: Rich Oliver (University of Missouri)

Clinical Education Task Force

Chair: Julie O’Sullivan Maillet (Rutgers University) and Christopher O’Brien (King’s College)

Strategic Priorities

• Create and provide networking opportunities, information, and resources to support member institutions’ educational programs as they prepare the future healthcare workforce.

  • Enhance member satisfaction with and engagement in ASAHP educational programs.

  • Demonstrate the value of student placements for clinical and community partners in order to increase the number of these partnerships.

Chair: Anthony Breitbach (Saint Louis University)

Board Champion: Barbara Wallace (LifePoint Health)

Task Force

Interprofessional Education

Chair: Anthony Breitbach (Saint Louis University)

Strategic Priorities

• Increase sharing of best practices and innovative approaches that advance health professions education and interprofessional education.

• Represent and advocate for health professions education programs with clinical and community partners, government, healthcare, and higher education leaders.       

  • Increase the number of professional institutional members.

  • Continue to work with Congress and the Administration for legislation and policies that directly benefit the membership.

  • Maintain and grow partnerships with other key education and health organizations.

  • Engage with key partners in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice.

• Foster a strong and sustainable organization that provides high value to its members.

  • Maintain strong membership retention and target additional institutional members for recruitment.

  • Increase member engagement, networking, and interaction.

  • Maintain and grow streams of revenue to better support ASAHP priorities.

  • Augment staff, leadership, and committee infrastructure to meet evolving needs of ASAHP.

Chair:David Brown (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston)

Board Champion: Brian Shulman (Seton Hall University)

Strategic Priorities

• Support and advance a culture of research, scholarship, and innovation within health professions education programs.

  • Provide resources to help member institutions to enhance research capacity

  • Increase number of submissions and impact factor for Journal of Allied Health and ASAHP Annual Conference

  • Increase number of research projects with inter-institutional and interprofessional collaborations among members

  • Provide greater mentorship opportunities in scholarship and research to member institutions

  • Provide resources that can result in increased grant submissions among member institutions

  • Facilitate members efforts to identify and hire research faculty (job board)