Heidi
Hancher-Rauch,
PhD, CHES
Assistant Professor & Director of Public Health Programs
University of Indianapolis
Heidi Hancher-Rauch is an associate professor and director of Public Health programs at University of Indianapolis. She holds a PhD in Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, MS in Health Promotion, and a BS in Psychology. She works with the Indiana Minority Health Coalition as a program evaluator and is the national co-chair of the Advocacy Committee for the Society of Public Health Education. Areas of expertise include community health education, health policy and advocacy, and program evaluation. Research includes the impact of health and wellness on learning; health advocacy, health policy, impact of wellness programming on health and business outcomes.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Preparing students to successfully manage situations they will encounter in their work lives outside the classroom is essential to broaden their scope beyond the knowledge, skills and communication style of one particular discipline. Major demographic shifts include greater diversity and aging of populations which present new challenges to existing systems of education and practice. The need for, and value of, interprofessional education (IPE) is well-established in the literature and advocated by multiple organizations including the Institute of Medicine and World Health Organization (Buring…