Applied Practice Experiences create opportunities to assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect community health. Students apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs, propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes, select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors, and perform effectively on inter-professional teams.

The APE is conducted in person or virtually at a public health organization that the graduate student identifies (with assistance from a UVM APE coach) within the student’s commuting distance in their home state. It usually lasts an average of a few hours per week for 4 weeks, during the student’s final spring semester. 

Finding the organization and Preceptor employed by that organization is usually completed in the preceding (fall) semester. There is no payment to the student or to the public health organization.

Each organization supplies a mentor, called a Preceptor, to support the student’s learning. Besides overseeing the student’s introduction to the organization’s activities and colleagues, the Preceptor helps the student identify 2 small items that the student develops by the end of the spring semester. These items help meet the organization’s needs, while showcasing the student’s knowledge and skills. 

Types of organizations to host students

  • Health departments
  • Not-for-profit agencies
  • Non-governmental organizations
  • Community-based organizations
  • Select businesses

Sample products for students to complete

  • Background materials
  • Fact sheets/infographics for professional or lay audiences
  • Presentations (slides/scripts)
  • Literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, and internet searches
  • Policy analysis
  • Educational materials for professional or lay audiences
  • Logic models

If you are interested in having our students support your organizations success by becoming an APE Site Partner, please email us here.

Past APE Site location Partners

  • UVM Office of Institutional Research
  • Dana Hall School
  • NEK Prosper
  • Dept of Health in El Paso, Tx
  • Epidemiology Dept
  • Foodbank of Southeast Virginia
  • Vermont Department of Health, Maternal Child Division
  • Community Health Council of Lebanon County
  • Montefiore Nyack Hospital
  • The Howard Center Chittenden Clinic
  • Vermont Department of Health
  • Emerald Innovations and McLean Hospital, MIT
  • Vermont Department of Health Statistic
  • Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community
  • Vt. Dept. of Health
  • Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia (HMHBGA)
  • Association of Public Land-Grant Universities Washington D.C.
  • Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP)
  • Montgomery County Health Department
  • COTS
  • Midwives for Haiti
  • State of Maine
  • Mountainside Resort at Stowe
  • UVM, Nutrition and Food Science Dept
  • Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network
  • Planet Youth
  • Princeton High School
  • Rhode Island Department of Health
  • M-Sense Research Group
  • VT Blueprint for Health
  • State of Vermont, Dept of Health, Envior Health Division
  • Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Air Quality and Climate Division
  • Essex, VT Health Office
  • Senior Citizens Council of Clinton County
  • Health Access and Health Information Exchange
  • Rise VT (Franklin/Grand Isle Counties)
  • Vermont Cancer Support Network (VCSN)
  • Center of Research on Vermont
  • Bassett Research Institute
  • Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  • Veteran’s Administration MC Pain Clinic
  • UVM Dept of Path and Lab Medicine
  • New England Nordic Ski Association
  • Substance Abuse Free Indian River (SAFIR)
  • Tahoe Food Hub
  • Initiative: Eau
  • Vermont Child Health Improvement Plan
  • National Council on Fall Risk Awareness and Prevention (NCFRAP)
  • Valley Regional Health Care
  • American Red Cross
  • Baltimore Behavioral Health Systems
  • Toxics Action Center
  • Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  • Rise, Harvard Innovation Lab
  • RedCross
  • Just Say Something Drug Prevention Organization
  • Long Island Health Collaborative
  • North Lancaster Hub
  • Salem Dept of Health
  • The Residence at Shelburne Bay
  • Circle of Friends
  • VCHIP
  • BCBS
  • Vermont Department of Health Division of Health Surveillance
  • Change the Story VT
  • Twinfied Union School
  • Blueprint for Health, State of Vt
  • UVM Center for Health and Wellbeing
  • UVM Wellness Group
  • VDH
  • UVM Dining Services
  • RiseVT
  • Office of Cheif Medical Examiner
  • Counseling Service of Addison County
  • White River Junction Local Health Office; Emergency Preparedness
  • UVM Oncology Steps to Wellness
  • Age Well
  • Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
  • Lifestyle Medicine Group, Northwestern
  • VDH Division of Child and Maternal Health
  • Kidney Foundation of WNY
  • Imaging the World
  • United Way of Addison County Preceptor
  • Partners.org
  • Center for Social Innovation
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Boston Children’s Hospital
  • City of Burlington, CEDO Lead Program
  • Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance System; UVM
  • Tech For Tomorrow
  • VDH; Coordinated Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Program Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  • UVM Medical Center, Tobacco Program
  • VDH; Town Planning for Chittenden County
  • UVMMC
  • UVM Extension Farmworker; Migrant Education Program
  • Community Health Center of Burlington, VT
  • Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
  • Tobacco Free CFE
  • The Blue Bench, Rape Crisis Center
  • Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
  • Clean Water Facility
  • District Health Department No 2.
  • Department of Health and Human Services of North Carolina
  • Killington Ski Patrol
  • Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
  • Private Practice
  • Easter Seals
  • State of VT Women’s Reproductive Health
  • Vermont’s Department for Children and Family; Family Services Division
  • Care for the Homeless
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Your Care Health Plan
  • Community Health Team at Rutland Regional Medical Center
  • Northwest Medical Center
  • Northwest Medical Center, Occupational Health

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