Description

This webinar highlights the 2025 winners of the Excellence in Interprofessional Education Collaboration Award from Emory University. Participants will learn how faculty, staff, and student volunteers collaborated across disciplines to deliver coordinated care and health education to more than 1,800 migrant farmworkers annually in rural Georgia. The session will showcase the project’s design, interprofessional strategies, and community impact, offering practical “lessons learned” for interprofessional service-learning initiatives.

Speakers include:

• Jodie Guest, PhD, MPH, Profesor and Senior Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine; Director, WHSC Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice; Director, Emory Farmworker Project, Emory University
• Emilia Grill, MPH, Senior Program Coordinator, Emory Farmworker Project, School of Medicine, Emory University
• Alexander Kendall, MS, PA-C, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory Physician Assistant Program, School of Medicine, Emory University
• Kodilichi Echeozo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCACP, Commander, U.S. Public Health Service; Reviewer, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Moderator)

Objectives

• Describe the design and implementation of an interprofessional service-learning project addressing community health needs.
• Explain how interprofessional collaboration strengthens coordinated care delivery and health education.
• Identify strategies and lessons learned for applying interprofessional approaches to service-learning in their own programs.

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