Center for Public Health and Education Policy

The University-chartered Center for Public Health and Education Policy provides a venue where faculty, students, and community members can participate jointly to produce evidence-based policy analysis in the areas of public health and education.  The Center’s work focuses on generating, researching, and disseminating relevant, solutions-oriented ideas.  The goal of the work is to inform policymakers, advocates, researchers, practitioners, and others as they address public health and education issues at the national, state, and local levels.

With a mission to provide tools and expertise that support creating, synthesizing, and translating research into practice and policy, the center stands at the crossroads of knowledge generation and implementation and serves as a continuous resource for health and education professionals and policymakers. Initiatives Include:

• Best Practices in Nursing – an initiative of the ENHP Department of Nursing to become a Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) Academic Best Practice Spotlight Organization
• Public Health Policy Issue Briefs – a series of research-based, non-partisan issue briefs on Connecticut public health policy in collaboration with the University’s Barney School of Business and other experts from around the state

For more information on the Center for Public Health and Education Policy, contact Diana LaRocco, Assistant Professor, Department of Education at 860.768.5807 or itr@hartford.edu.