Pedagogy in Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Paper of the Year Award

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The Pedagogy in Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (PHP) Paper of the Year is selected by the PHP Editorial Board to represent an article from any category in the journal for its high quality and one that well represents the mission and purpose of the journal. The award was presented at SOPHE’s 74^rd Annual Meeting in Atlanta.

Congratulations to the recipient of PHP’s Paper of the Year winner!

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An Anti-Racism Public Health Graduate Program: Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community Goleen Samari, PhD, MPH, MA, Monet Bryant, MPH, and Stephanie Grillo, PhD

(Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 261–270, December 2022)

Abstract

Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) are underrepresented in the public health workforce. Strengthening the public health pipeline through graduate institutions of public health is a necessary anti-racist approach to address health disparities. Programs that provide effective mentoring are one strategy for evidence-based anti-oppressive instructional practice, proven to help racial and ethnic students historically targeted by oppression in propelling career trajectories, professional development, and overall institutional experience in graduate school. The Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community (MOSAIC) program was founded in 2019 as a comprehensive and anti-racist faculty-to-student mentorship initiative for BIPOC and first-generation students. Through a scoping review of mentorship programs at schools of public health and an iterative feedback process that included faculty, students, and staff, the MOSAIC model was created. Built on the tenets of successful mentorship approaches, MOSAIC focuses on increasing equity and educational justice with a focus on professional development and academic success through faculty-to-student mentorship. The growth of MOSAIC has demonstrated it fills a critical gap for students of color and first-generation students in a school of public health. MOSAIC intends to act as a programmatic model for replication at other schools of public health to provide necessary support and mentorship for BIPOC students.