The Department coordinates the activities of three separate advisory boards comprised of both on-campus and off-campus practitioners, researchers, health care administrators and providers, and community and state leaders.
The Department of Public Health Sciences' eight-member Public Health Advisory Board provides strategic guidance to meet the region's public health workforce development and training needs through an evolving portfolio of courses and programs in public health. The Board is comprised of a range of community development, health care, health promotion, and public health partners from the greater Charlotte metropolitan region, and has been meeting regularly since before 2005.
The ten-member Master of Health Administration Healthcare Management Advisory Board is comprised of administrators from acute care settings, non-profit agencies, community services, and consulting organizations from the greater Charlotte-Mecklenburg County area. The Board was established in 2007 to guide the continued development of the MHA program in conjunction with accreditation of the MHA program by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) in November 2007.
The School of Public Health Planning and Steering Committee was established in late 2007 in response to the regional need and institutional opportunity to plan and establish an accredited School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The Committee is comprised of representatives from the College's and Department's Advisory Boards; public health leaders in the community, region, and state; and on-campus faculty and administrators with expertise in community collaboration and strategic visioning.
