The applied practice experience (APE) is an opportunity for students to demonstrate
public health competencies within a public health practice organization. All students
must demonstrate at least 5 competencies during their APE, 3 of which will be foundational
and 2 (or more) will be selected by the student. Students will demonstrate competency
attainment using a portfolio approach in which they work with public health-related
practice organizations to develop at least two products that will be mutually beneficial
to the student and organization. Examples of work products include but are not limited
to project plans, grant proposals, training manuals or lesson plans, surveys, memos,
videos, podcasts, presentations, spreadsheets, websites, dashboards, photos (with
accompanying explanatory text), evaluation reports, needs assessments, interview guides,
infographics, logic models, quality improvement plans, community health assessments,
SWOT analyses or other digital artifacts of learning.
Each practice organization must have a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) in place before
the student begins contact hours at the organization. In order to see if the organization
has worked with the ASPH in the past and currently has an MOA, review the “Past Applied
Practice Experience Sites” link. If the organization is not listed, please have your
preceptor fill out the fillable Memorandum of Agreement Template and email it to Brittany Sutton. If the site has a different MOA that they wish to use, please contact Brittany Sutton to process the MOA.